Azealia Banks pulls out of London festival after ‘being pressured to support Palestine’

> The 212 rapper has sparked controversy with her outspoken views throughout her career, having been accused of homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia in the past

I guess that cunt gettin’ cancelled

>She added: “And no, I’m not saying f**k actual Palestine. But f**k your dumb a*s slogans and performative bulls**t. Yall wanna make a stance so bad but stand for absolutely nothing.

Summed it up so nicely.

>“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 and I’m not dealing with the threats and I’m not putting on a f**king hijab.”

She’s accusing the festival of asking her to put on a Hijab? Sounds fake af.

>”Banks revealed earlier this month that she is a Zionist and supports Israel, writing, “F**k Palestine” on X.”

Ahh, this story makes more sense now. She’s just lying.

Her Wikipedia page is quite something…

>In 2016, Banks took to Twitter to express her endorsement of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, clarifying that “I have no hope for America … I think Donald Trump is evil like America is evil and in order for America to keep up with itself it needs him … politicians are inherently evil, I trust the one who is most transparent.

>after Trump won the presidency, she posted, “He is my fucking hero right now. I am elated.”

>In April 2022, Banks posted an Instagram story repeatedly chastising Ukraine in the 2022 Russian invasion of the country. She claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy prevented African exchange students from leaving the country

>In a previous Instagram story from April 1, she had praised Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, saying that she “really fucking love[s]” him and calling him her “favorite super villain ever”.

>In July 2024, Banks attended a rally in support of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in Florida. On November 4, the day before the election, she posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she would be voting for Kamala Harris due to concerns over Elon Musk’s involvement with Trump; she wrote that Musk “belongs nowhere near American politics”. On November 6, she posted an image on X, purportedly of her ballot with Donald Trump selected, captioned, “I lied, I voted for Trump yesterday.”

>In June 2025, Banks stated that she was a Zionist and supported Israel, writing “Fuck Palestine” on X. She wrote, “No Black Person Should Support Palestine”, citing anti-black racism in the Arab world. She asserted that Israel should only give Afro-Palestinians asylum, claiming, without proof, that the other Palestinians had carried out a genocide against them. She criticized the two-state solution, stating, “No. [Mandatory Palestine] should all be Israel. Palestine cannot support itself without help from other countries, so the people should just leave or become naturalized Israelis.”

>In January 2019, Banks posted xenophobic remarks about Irish people, in which she used ethnic slurs and mocked the Great Famine, after performing in Ireland. That August, she posted xenophobic remarks about Swedish people after performing in Sweden, adding that she “would really love to see someone bomb the shit out of this place”.