And there you have it. Britain is a country where a musician who says ‘Heil Hitler’ gets to headline festivals while a musician who plays with a Jew from Israel gets cancelled. Threaten to go ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’ and you’ll be grand. Jam with a Jewish person and you’re toast. Selling T-shirts adorned with the swastika? No problem. Doing a duet with someone from the Jewish state? Don’t even think about it.

In the eyes of the keffiyeh-smothered windbags of the cultural elite, praising the Nazi monster who exterminated millions of Jews is a more forgivable moral error than hanging out with a Jew from Israel

In the eyes of the keffiyeh-smothered windbags of the cultural elite, praising the Nazi monster who exterminated millions of Jews is a more forgivable moral error than hanging out with a Jew from Israel

That was my first thought upon reading that Kanye West will headline all three nights of the Wireless festival in Finsbury park in July. This is a man who has openly flirted with Jew hatred in recent years. His song ‘Heil Hitler’ has become a fave of the crank right. He once sold swastika tees through his website. He has promoted bonkers conspiracy theories about Jews.

Still, at least he didn’t........

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