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Jewish Groups Withdraw From 2025 San Diego Pride Festival Over Kehlani’s Support For Palestine
All the Jewish group typically supportive of the annual San Diego Pride Festival have dropped out over headliner Kehlani's support for Palestine.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, eight organizations and synagogues issued a joint statement this week saying that their decision was due to “serious safety concerns” prompted by what they called the R&B singer’s “repeated amplification of violent antisemitic rhetoric.” Kehlani has been hit by a series of boycotts and cancellations due to her pro-Palestinian comments throughout Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas following the militant group’s terror attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023, during which raiders killed more than 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages. The SummerStage cancelation came after Cornell University pulled the plug on a planned Kehlani appearance at the school’s annual Slope Day event on May 7 over her public support for Palestinians and what they deemed her “ antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments.”
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