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Azealia Banks is a rapper who doesn’t like being pressured by the anti-Israel bully-boys running music festivals in Great Britain to denounce Israel and join the chorus of those who want to destroy it. She’s just given the world a piece of her mind. It’s worth reading, here: “Rapper pulls out of music festivals alleging they wanted her to make ‘free Palestine’ statements onstage,” by Gabriel Hays, Fox News, June 28, 2025:
Musician Azealia Banks said on Wednesday she canceled her performances at two upcoming U.K. festivals because they asked her to make anti-Israel statements on stage.
The rapper and singer took to X earlier this week to announce that she was pulling out of the Maiden Voyage Festival in London, as well as the Boomtown Festival in Hampshire. She alleged that event promoters said she needed to push pro-Palestinian slogans during her performances.
“So guys, I am cancelling Boomtown and Maiden Voyage, the promoters have been stressing me out for weeks trying to force me to say free Palestine and threatening to cut me from the bill because I won’t say free Palestine and I’m not dealing with the threats and I’m not putting on a f—— hijab,” she wrote.
The “Luxury” singer’s lengthy post continued. She alleged that both events threatened to cut her acts if she didn’t comply with the requests, and noted that she went ahead and pulled out first because she didn’t agree with the demands.
“They’re both basically trying to extort me – by insinuating that I need to say I support Palestine or they will drop me from the gig BUT I would much rather drop them and not associate with anything that has cheap group think b——- attached to it.”
Still, Banks wasn’t finished.
She continued, “If they want to allow some no-name DJs to bully them into desecrating the nature of this music ecosystem and make ME the issue – whilst there being absolutely no ethical consumption under capitalism. Then that’s fine.”
“More thinly veiled racism and overt antisemitism from the f—— gays for Hamas.”…
Contrast Banks’ courage to the shallow conformism of “Bob Vylan,” who screamed “free Palestine, free Palestine” to a raucous, sickeningly cheering crowd at the Glastonbury Music Festival. That chant, for those who may still not know, is a call for Israel to disappear and to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. Or Kanye West, who up until recently was urgent about publicly proclaiming his allegiance to Adolf Hitler. He wore swastikas. He denounced Jews. He kept praising Hitler, he proclaimed “Heil Hitler” and hoped that would make him a sensation on social media. Or Carlos O’Connell, who took the occasion of his Irish band’s being given an award for “Best Album” at the Rolling Stone UIKAwards on November 1 to denounce the embattled and much-maligned Jewish Israel. Or Roger Waters, the stark raving mad antisemite who likes to wear a Nazi uniform, keep tethered above the stage when he performs an inflatable pig with an embossed Star of David on its side, and has made plans to throw out swastika-shaped confetti to his fans.
In contrast to them and to so many others like them, Azealia Banks actually has integrity. Brava.
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