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Pepsi Pulls Wireless Sponsorship as Keir Starmer Condemns Festival Over Kanye West Booking

Rolling Stone·Daniel Kreps·about 2 months ago
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"It is deeply concerning that Kanye West has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism," British Prime Minister said Pepsi, the main sponsor for London’s Wireless Festival for a decade, announced Sunday it was pulling its support for the fest amid Wireless’ three-night booking of Kanye West . The soda company’s decision comes hours after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a statement criticizing Wireless organizers for enlisting West to headline three nights at the festival, the rapper’s first U.K. shows in 11 years. “It is deeply concerning that Kanye West has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism,” Starmer said. “Antisemitism in any form is abhorrent and must be confronted clearly and firmly wherever it appears.…

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