A third country is moving to cancel a Kanye West concert, as the rapper’s tour of Europe continues to collapse under the weight of his antisemitic history. Stadion Slaski, in southern Poland, plans to cancel West’s scheduled June 19 show, local newspaper Wyborcza reported, days after France’s second-largest city declared him unwelcome and Britain barred him from entering the country entirely to headline London’s largest music festival. Poland’s Culture Minister Marta Cienkowska had already signaled authorities would seek to block the concert. “These aren’t ‘controversies.’ They’re consciously crossing boundaries and normalizing hatred,” she said. “In a country scarred by the history of the Holocaust, we can’t pretend this is just entertainment.” More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz during World War II. Nazi Germany killed over three million of Poland’s 3.2 million Jewish population. A stadium representative was quoted as saying, “The concert will not take place. Our lawyers are preparing a letter regarding this matter.” The stadium did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation. The Daily Beast has approached organizers for comment. West, 48, who now performs as Ye, apologized in January for past antisemitic remarks, attributing them to untreated bipolar disorder. He was also barred from Australia last year after releasing a song promoting Nazism.
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