"I'm Not Putting On A F***ing Hijab" - UK Singer Refuses To Virtue Signal For Palestine, Pulls Out Of Festivals

Singer Azealia Banks has pulled out of two events in the UK, charging that the organisers relentlessly pressured her to express support for Palestine while promoting her scheduled appearance.

The star refused to go along with what she described as “threats.”

Banks wrote on X, “So guys, I am cancelling Boomtown and Maiden Voyage, the promoters have been stressing me out for weeks trying to force me to say free Palestine and threatening to cut me from the bill because I won’t say free Palestine.”

“I’m not dealing with the threats and I’m not putting on a fucking hijab,” she further raged.

“They’re both basically trying to extort me – by insinuating that I need to say I support Palestine or they will drop me from the gig BUT I would much rather drop them and not associate with anything that has cheap group think bullshit attached to it,” Banks’ incredibly based post continues.

“More thinly veiled racism And overt antisemitism from the fucking gays for Hamas,” Banks further claimed, adding “#FUCKPALESTINE” at the end of the post.

In a further post she clarified, “And no, I’m not saying fuck actual Palestine. But fuck your dumb ass slogans and performative bullshit.”

“Yall wanna make a stance so bad but stand for absolutely nothing. As soon as the media says pedophilia is “natural and normal, You bitches will be right there talking about #PEDOPHILERIGHTS,” Banks further charged.

“That war has been going on in the background for fucking decades . Way before anyone alive today was born And all of a sudden yall are throwing around words like genocide and Zionist not even knowing the meaning of those words,” Banks continued.

“I don’t need to be on stage stressing out to appease some dumb ass protesters who literally rely on those people in Palestine being crushed so they can solicit donations they DO NOT give to the cause. Kiss my ass,” she further blasted.

The organisers of the events in London and Hampshire have denied putting pressure on Banks to take a political stance.

It’s surprising and refreshing to see an artist refusing to parrot ‘the current thing’ narrative, just because the rest of the music industry does so, and to call it out as inauthentic.

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