West is due to headline all three nights of Wireless, which is expected to attract 50,000 people per day, in Finsbury Park, north London, from 10-12 July.<\/p>\n
The first tickets were available in a PayPal pre-sale last week, with another pre-sale due to begin on Tuesday, before tickets go on general sale on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the festival’s headline sponsor Pepsi pulled out, while fellow drinks giant Diageo also removed its support “as it stands”.<\/p>\n
It has since emerged that PayPal, which is a payment partner for Wireless, will no longer allow its branding to be used on promotional material for the festival.<\/p>\n
Australia cancelled West’s visa after he released Heil Hitler last May.<\/p>\n
Michael Weiger, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the UK should now follow suit.<\/p>\n
“We think that would be a very appropriate step were the home secretary to find a way to not allow him into the country,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Board of Deputies accused Wireless Festival, its parent company Festival Republic and managing director Melvin Benn of “profiteering from racism”.<\/p>\n
Festival Republic and Benn have not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The Home Office said it did not have any comment to add to the prime minister’s remarks.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir said on Sunday that antisemitism was “abhorrent and must be confronted firmly wherever it appears”, and that “everyone has a responsibility to ensure Britain is a place where Jewish people feel safe”.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Stephen Silverman from the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) called the booking “astonishing”.<\/p>\n
“It’s great that sponsors are now doing the right thing and withdrawing their support, but how it could have conceivably been considered the right thing to do to headline an artist who, less than a year ago, released a music video for a song called Heil Hitler?” he told BBC Radio 5Live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West is due to headline all three nights of Wireless, which is expected to attract 50,000 people per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-377906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}