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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.
She is no only heroic, she has exposed the coercive nature of the performative “activitism” for “Palestine” that is all the rage among the fashionable bien pensant.
Tell them to Go Pound Sand if their going to be that way
I believe she just did.
Thank you for informing us about this righteous gentile.
She may have sacrificed income and exposure in the short term – but God will bless and reward her longer term.
I don’t like rap music in any way, shape or form. But I do like people with integrity, even rappers.
Check out “Igpay Atinlay” — the pig latin rap from the late 80s early 90s. Back then, there were several experimental raps being tried…..before the rap industry settled into various rote posturings to goose sales to the unintelligent.
This raises the question of what really happened at Glastonbury. Kneecap already had a track record of anti-Semitism prior to Glastonbury – so they may or may not have found themselves in convenient alignment with some echelon of management or the BBC (I don’t honestly think that the Eavis family had anything to do with it, but there is the possibility that they could have inadvertently used anti-Semitic middlemen, or that agents may have misrepresented their position). I had never heard of Bobby Vylan until learning of his conduct at Glastonbury – though my impression is that he is deluded enough to believe in what he is doing. Was there some sort of premium on anti-Semitism at Glastonbury? Or were the appalling events there spontaneous – but somehow viewed by some as being worth imitating? I have to admit to wondering if there could have been any funding from the likes of the Soros empire – though if so, then it would still be worth knowing how they went about it. What is good, though, is that, thanks to this performer’s principled stand, we at least know that there is something that warrants investigation.
Those ‘promoters’ need to be investigated and charged with something. Maybe send “Luigi and Guido’ to have a little ‘chat’ with them in a dark alley somewhere. If some kind of justice is not served, these creeps and their ilk will only continue to worsen until society explodes in total chaos and anarchy.
Great minds think alike!!
“Guido and Luigi” would become unsung heroes
I’ve never heard of her before her statement on this, but she has my attention now. Very proud of a strong young woman who refuses to be coerced into being a propaganda whore, just to make money. Clearly, she values her talent and the reason for the festivals (time to feel good and listen to good music, not gin up hate, hell, and discontent!) over parroting political narratives – and it’s about time someone in her age group spoke up, and AGAINST this blatant hate.
You can definitely see your expertise in the work you write. The sector hopes for more passionate writers like you who aren’t afraid to mention how they believe. All the time follow your heart. “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill.