After a week of Wireless Festival declining any comment to the media, the statement by Festival Republic Managing Director Melvin Benn did not reassure the many within the Jewish or other communities who were concerned by Kanye West's invitation to perform at the Festival in July.

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The two key facts remain that Kanye West proclaimed himself a Nazi and that Wireless stands to benefit financially from his performance.

Melvin Benn, who is not himself Jewish, deciding to forgive Kanye West on our behalf, for comments not directed at him or people like him, is inappropriate.

Particularly when it is his businesses which are seeking to gain from having Kanye West there, he is........

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