{"id":307221,"date":"2026-06-14T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:47:07","slug":"tampa-organizations-join-france-and-england-in-attempt-to-ban-kanye-west-from-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307221\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Organizations Join France and England in Attempt To Ban Kanye West From Performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his big comebacks in places like Turkey, some places don\u2019t want Kanye West performing in their area. They often point towards him inciting some potentially problematic issues, especially with past anti-Semitic rhetoric in songs and rants. What if he performs a deeply terrible and offensive song like \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>So far, that hasn\u2019t been a problem, mostly churning out his hits and new, safe songs from his album Bully. But places like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/following-threats-of-being-banned-kanye-west-postpones-show-in-france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wireless-festival-cancels-shows-after-kanye-west-gets-blocked-from-traveling-to-the-uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> are halting any issues before they can even potentially take place. Now, we can add Tampa, Florida, to the list. Ahead of a massive pair of performances at Raymond James Stadium on June 26th and 28th, three organizations are speaking out against Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Jewish Federation, the Florida Holocaust Museum, and the Florida chapter of the National Organization for Women have all written <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/tampa-jewish-federation-fl-now-join-kanye-west-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">statements<\/a> opposing Ye\u2019s pair of concerts. Holocaust Museum president Eric Stillman wasn\u2019t convinced about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/kanye-west-had-been-working-on-public-apology-letter-for-a-while-according-to-management\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apology<\/a> he gave in the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say he was sorry and to say it was based on a manic episode and not to take any actions after that, to demonstrate that this was a sincere change of heart, is really what is so hard for the members of the Jewish community in Tampa, and throughout the region and throughout the world to take that as sincere,\u201d Stillman said. <\/p>\n<p>Kanye West Is Facing Pushback for Upcoming Performances in Tampa, Florida<\/p>\n<p>The Florida NOW Vice President Debbie Deland argued that the Ye apology flat-out doesn\u2019t make sense. You don\u2019t just change what you believe on a whim through a sudden apology. Given the measures he went to consistently, she isn\u2019t behind the new disposition. \u201cIt\u2019s been a consistent pattern of hate speech and Nazism,\u201d Deland said. \u201cYou don\u2019t just turn that over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This adds to Florida Senator Rick Scott\u2019s firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/services\/files\/6B6E096D-5208-4B53-91BE-F187F992E552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">belief<\/a> that the Tampa Sports Authority should seriously think about hosting Kanye West. Since Raymond James Stadium is a \u201cpublicly owned venue\u201d, taxpayers shouldn\u2019t pay to have someone with such hateful views performing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKanye West\u2019s consistent antisemitic attacks are an affront to the values of the people of the Hillsborough community. He has openly\u00a0praised Nazis,\u00a0called himself one, and slandered Jews across the world,\u201d Scott wrote of Kanye West. \u201cIt is troubling that a stadium supported by taxpayer dollars would openly subsidize an event led by an artist known for pushing this dangerous, hateful rhetoric. No taxpayer dollars should be used to give a vocal antisemite a stage in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his big comebacks in places like Turkey, some places don\u2019t want Kanye West performing in their area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5237,63134,1407,128343,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-307221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hip-hop","tag-kanye-west","tag-music","tag-noisey","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}