‘F— Israel, F— Zionism’: Uproar at Cornell Over Featured Spring Concert Singer Kehlani
21st April 2025
Pro-Israel students at Cornell University are up in arms over an upcoming spring concert funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars in mandatory student fees featuring the singer Kehlani, who has endorsed “intifada” and said bluntly, “It’s f— Israel, it’s f— Zionism.”
Kehlani is slated to headline Cornell’s Slope Day, scheduled for May 7, an annual concert that marks the end of the school year. The university announced the event in a statement touting the “multi-Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist.” It did not initially acknowledge the controversy her appearance has kicked up, though university president Michael Kotlikoff said last week that the artist will not make political statements and will forfeit her fee if she does so.
Kehlani, whose anti-Israel activism has garnered national headlines, posted a series of Instagram videos last May in which she said she had lost “any ounce of f—ing respect” for musical artists who did not publicly condemn Israel and its war on Hamas.
The musical is political, apparently. To a proglodyte, just as every German is a fascist, every Israeli is a Zionist.
UPDATE: ‘F— Israel, f— Zionism’: Cornell University Concert Headliner Sparks Uproar
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