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A stadium in Poland has cancelled a Kanye West concert scheduled for June following criticism over the United States rapper’s past antisemitic remarks and controversial behaviour.
The Superauto.pl Silesian Stadium announced on Friday that the June 19 show would no longer take place, citing formal and legal reasons.
“The concert by Ye (Kanye West), scheduled for 19 June 2026 at the Superauto.pl Silesian Stadium will not take place due to formal and legal reasons,” venue director Adam Strzyzewski announced in a press release.
Before the cancellation, Poland’s culture ministry had said it was seeking to prevent the performance from going ahead.
Culture Minister Marta Cienkowska said West’s actions and statements, including what she described as the promotion of Nazi ideology, were fundamentally at odds with Poland’s values.
“The widely discussed actions of Kanye West, linked to his promotion of Nazism, are in manifest contradiction with Poland’s values.”
She said it was difficult to imagine such a concert being held in a country where millions were murdered in Nazi German extermination camps, and urged organisers not to provide public space for the promotion of criminal ideologies.
She also said authorities had legal means to block the entry of undesirable individuals if necessary.
West, who is legally known as Ye, recently announced that a planned concert in Marseille, France, had also been postponed after objections from local authorities.
Last week, Britain said it had barred him from entering the country, leading to the cancellation of a London music festival where he had been due to perform over three nights in July.
The 48-year-old musician has faced widespread backlash in recent years over inflammatory comments and actions.
He previously declared admiration for Nazis, sold merchandise bearing swastika imagery and released a song titled Heil Hitler, which was removed from major streaming platforms.
In January, he published a newspaper advertisement denying that he was a Nazi or antisemite and said he loved Jewish people. He attributed some of his past behaviour to a manic episode linked to bipolar disorder.
