A stadium in Poland announced on Friday the cancellation of a summer concert by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, as European countries bristle at the rapper’s attempt at a comeback after years of antisemitic comments and a song titled “Heil Hitler.”
“In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment,” Marta Cienkowska, the country’s minister of culture and national heritage, wrote in Polish on social media this week.
Adam Strzyzewski, the director of Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, Poland, said on social media that the concert scheduled for June 19 would not take place because of “formal and legal reasons.” Ye did not immediately respond to the news on social media.
This month, the British government barred Ye from entering the country, which resulted in the cancellation of a festival he was supposed to headline. Ye also postponed a show in Marseille, France, as the French interior ministry considered banning the event.
The shows are part of a small tour to promote Ye’s latest album, “Bully,” with performances scheduled in Istanbul, New Delhi and Madrid. In the United States, Ye had no issues with his first live shows since 2021, playing two sold-out nights near Los Angeles.
The tour comes a few months after Ye took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal that said he regretted his antisemitic behavior and attributed it to untreated bipolar disorder. It was not his first apology, with Ye posting in Hebrew in 2023 to ask for forgiveness from Jewish people. In 2025, he took back that apology and declared himself a Nazi.
Michaela Towfighi is a Times arts and culture reporter and a member of the 2025-26 Times Fellowship class, a program for early career journalists.
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