Kanye West’s European tour in doubt as more concerts cancelled in Poland and Switzerland | Kanye West
Kanye West’s upcoming concerts in Poland and Switzerland have been canceled as a growing number of European countries halt or postpone performances amid outrage over the US rapper’s past antisemitic comments.
Swiss football club FC Basel, which is responsible for concerts and events at its St Jakob-Park ground, told Reuters on Saturday that after considering a request for West to perform there in June, it decided against it.
“In line with our values, we cannot provide the artist in question with a platform in this context,” a club spokesman told Reuters.
On Friday, the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów, Poland, announced it would also cancel West’s June 19 concert after the Polish culture ministry announced it was trying to prevent West from performing in the country.
“Ye’s (Kanye West) concert scheduled for June 19, 2026 at Superauto.pl Silesian Stadium will not take place for official and legal reasons,” venue director Adam Strzyzewski said in a press release on the stadium’s website.
Polish Culture Minister Marta Cienkowska had previously said West’s “support of Nazism” was “clearly contradictory to Polish values” and condemned West as an artist who “openly declared that he loved Hitler, supported Nazi ideology and made money selling T-shirts embroidered with swastikas.”
“In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot claim that this is just entertainment,” Cienkowska said. wrote on social media.
He added that Warsaw has the opportunity to prevent the entry of unwanted persons and will “appeal to them” if necessary.
The decisions by Poland and FC Basel come days after the 48-year-old rapper, legally known as Ye, postponed a show in Marseille, France, after local authorities expressed objections.
Earlier this month, the UK also blocked West from traveling there to attend the Wireless festival in London, leading to the cancellation of the entire festival, where West was scheduled to perform over three nights in July.
The last stops of West’s announced European tour are now Türkiye, the Netherlands, Italy, Madrid and Portugal.
West has previously said “I love Nazis,” expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, sold T-shirts with swastikas on his website, and released a track called Heil Hitler last year that was banned by many streaming platforms.
In January, he took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal saying, “I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite” and “I love the Jewish people.” He attributed his antisemitic behavior to a “manic episode” caused by bipolar-1 disorder.
It wasn’t West’s first time apologizing: the rapper Published a statement in Hebrew in 2023He asked for forgiveness from the Jews but they did not accept it that back and in 2025 he declared himself a Nazi.
