Jew-bashing performer Kehlani is about to take the stage at a taxpayer-funded Satisfaction occasion in Central Park this summer season — every week after her present at Cornell College was canceled following an enormous uproar.
The Metropolis Park’s Basis — a taxpayer-funded group — invited the controversial singer to carry out on the metropolis’s Summer time Stage collection in June for a profit live performance marketed as “PRIDE WITH KEHLANI.”
The singer notoriously posted a music video final spring that begins with “Long live the Intifada,” a phrase that’s extensively criticized as implying violence towards the Jewish group.
“America’s largest city has no business subsidizing or sanitizing antisemitism at taxpayer expense,” Democratic U.S. Consultant Ritchie Torres of the South Bronx posted on X. “Stop mainstreaming the extremes and inviting those who invite violence.”
The announcement additionally instantly drew backlash from the Jewish group:
“An individual who refers to Jews as the ‘f–king scum of the earth’ and calls for their annihilation has no business performing in the heart of New York City, which happens to be home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. Period,” mentioned Mark Treyger, CEO of Jewish Neighborhood Relations Council of New York.
The parks division didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from The Put up.
Kehlani, 30, was set to headline Cornell’s end-of-the-year Slope Day celebration — a transfer that drew backlash from Jewish teams on campus who threatened to boycott the occasion if the varsity didn’t cancel the anti-Israel performer.
Cornell brass and Slope Day organizers mentioned they have been unaware of the Grammy Award-nominated R&B singer’s hateful rhetoric, together with sharing a map on-line that eliminates the state of Israel and refusing to sentence Hamas for the Oct. 7, 2023 terror assaults.
She has additionally posted on-line, “DISMANTLE ISRAEL. ERADICATE ZIONISM” and has known as Zionists “the scum of the earth.”
After Cornell nixed her invitation, Kehlani claimed she wasn’t an antisemite on Instagram.
“I am anti-genocide,” she mentioned. “I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women — that’s what I’m anti.”
