R&B star Kehlani has been dropped from Cornell University’s Slope Day lineup, just weeks before the annual spring concert.
And she’s speaking up and out in the aftermath.
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The University’s decision comes amid backlash over the singer’s outspoken criticism of Israel and vocal support for Palestinians.
Kehlani has consistently used her platform to oppose Israel’s war in Gaza. She has drawn on her platforms to consistently share her take.
University President Michael Kotlikoff shared:
“In the days since Kehlani was announced, I have heard grave concerns from our community that many are angry, hurt, and confused that Slope Day would feature a performer who has espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media. While any artist has the right in our country to express hateful views, Slope Day is about uniting our community, not dividing it.“
Continuing, he added;
“Unfortunately, although it was not the intention, the selection of Kehlani as this year’s headliner has injected division and discord into Slope Day. For that reason, I am rescinding Kehlani’s invitation and expect a new lineup for a great 2025 Slope Day to be announced shortly.”
Kehlani responded, sharing:
“I am anti-genocide, I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I’m anti the bombing of innocent children, men women… that’s what I’m anti.”
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Cornell is one of several institutions under federal scrutiny, with the Trump administration freezing over $1 billion in funding amid an investigation into alleged antisemitism on campus.
While Cornell has not commented beyond this, the decision has already sparked controversy online, with critics accusing the university of censorship and bowing to political pressure.
much respect and applause to Kehlani for not letting genocide supporters silence her
Must respect for who? I don’t even know any of her songs.. perhaps if they played it a nova musical festival people would have left before the massacre started on October 7th.
b i t ch, you are evil in deep down your heart. you think we didn’t know. she is doing too much, saying too much. No one is watching her shows anyways
Yaaaaaas dear!!!! Thank you!!!!
What kind of an idiot supports radical Islamists Jihadis? Supporting “anti-genocided” by supporting those who flew into a music festival from the sky on paragliders and rose from terror tunnels to massacre over 1000 people on October 7th. Palestinians can surrender. It’s not genocide. ITS islamonazi s******. No sympathy for the Palestinians. They voted for terorrists instead of democracy and GOT it. Shame on them all.
Don’t be so ignorant. You do realise Netanyahu helped create and fund H****. They were always a means of giving Israel the justification to displace the Palestinians so Israel could expand its borders.
Statements from Netanyahu and ex Israeli officials are all testament to this.
How do you think a large group of H**** militants entered Israeli borders when they’re heavily guarded and fortified but that day they conveniently werent? Open your eyes.
Furthermore Oct 7th was just the latest escalation. The conflict has been going on for nearly 80 yrs.
Israel is just trying to make out as if Oct 7th was the start so we can overlook their daily persecution of the Palestinians and play the victim
Witchcraft practicing BULL DYKEEEE
They all think being all Pro jihadi and radical Islamist terorrist from P******** is somehow cool.. or tender. No hun, have your neck sliced from ear to ear while they yell Allahu Akbar or murder babies with bare hands and have a death show broadcast to the world to celebrate is the lowest low of all lows. Get out of Judea if you can’t live peacefully next to Jews, gays, women and the west.
“I have a black friend I’m not racist ”
She literally called for the genocide of Jews and their one and only country, she supports Islamonazism-colonialism, She thinks being antisemitic is fashionable. She supports the most radical group of people in the world who will throw her from the ruff for her looks and her LGBTQ agenda and being an enemy to Islam and a bad example for muslims, but her hate from birth (because of her Islamic family) to jews is much stronger than logic, that’s exactly the definition of a racist antisemitic bich.
Girl Wtf you on about. The current state of Israel is ethno-European colonisation. The historic israelite and semitic peoples have been weaponised by extremists. Ancient P******** as it was known was a unity of kingdoms, tribes and people. People of a specific religion do not have ethnic ties to geography in a way that gives them ancestral rights. At the moment, anyone can convert to Judaism and claim citizenship of Israel. That’s not an ethnic nation, thts a project. Yes there are genuine Israeli/ethnically Jewish people who have ties to that country but that isn’t the same as the politically motivated establishment of a nation by displacing those who have lived there for 1000s of years. Many of those trying to assert their rights over Gaza and the West Bank have literally no familial or blood ties to Israel. The establishment of a national built on faith goes against the whole etymology and demography of a country. There’s no other country where you can claim citizenship on the basis of your religion. All of that aside, extreme Israeli politics is trying to establish all of this while eradicating another populus. There’s only one side bombing women and children, raping prisoners and starving families. Clue, it begins with I and ends with L.
Learn your history, stop listening to Satanyahu
In WW2 there where Jews who out of fear helped the Nazis kill thier people, they thought that it will save them.
You having the same kind of boneless “Jews” as “friends” doesn’t mean you’re not antisemitic, the contrary.
Imagine supporting the Taliban and calling them to free Afghanistan. Yeah that’s how dmb you are. Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East Asia and Africa are what the white men is to America – Colonizers!
They hate the Jews and Israel because they having hard time colonizing and converting them which is their goal for the entire world but you are too dmb to understand that.
Look how easily they taking over Europe, you are weak and don’t understand the danger that’s why right wings rising up again.
Preach 🙌
I hope TGJ/the admin servers take this vile Islamophobia and Xenophobic rant down.
Yes Kehlani. F**k them Zionist and speak up against genocide. Free P******** 🇵🇸
Free the world from Islamonazism
Free the world from Islamic colonialism
Free the world from islamic terrorism
Go free it you pssssssy
FREE P A L E S T I N E !
Free the UK from Islam go back to your 💩 holes we don’t want you here.
😂 💯! Take them off of the US too
Go free your “homelands” why you coming here mfs
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