Mykki Blanco has been dropped from a German festival over her support for Palestine. The Orange County rapper posted screenshots of the email to social media, which explained that “the head of the German Jewish Society unsuccessfully tried to get your Berlin show cancelled due to your support for Palestinians… Leipzig would prefer not to cancel – but as they receive government funding, to proceed would jeopardise their funding and therefore the existence of the festival itself, so have no alternative option.”

Blanco responded to the situation with a statement in the caption, saying she “will continue to forever be against the weaponizing of antisemitism to justify the genocide in Gaza.” Read what she wrote below.

I received an email this morning that a festival in Germany has to cancel my performance and remove me from the festival line up because of my support of Palestine. If they don’t remove me they risk losing their funding.

This is that new paradigm I was speaking about in that video I shared two months ago.

Germany, Germany, Germany …. tsk tsk

As a Black person who grew up within Jewish culture to a certain extent this really hurts.

I will continue to forever be against the weaponizing of antisemitism to justify the genocide in Gaza.

I am not ashamed.

She made another post shortly after, calling for artists to boycott Germany:

I don’t have a salary job. This platform is directly linked to how I make most of my money. I rely on the attention economy. I’m not a full time activist, I actually have no idea how activists make money or pay their bills. I’m also not a rich celebrity, I’m very much a working artist.

So let’s keep it 100 percent real. When I turned my platform over for 2 months to speak out against the genocide in Gaza I was not working. I don’t have a side job. Being an artist is my full time job.

I would willingly do it all over again, but let’s not get things twisted.

Germany wants to keep fucking with artists and artists livelihoods ….

Let’s boycott the entire country of Germany. Just like artists who choose not to perform in Tel Aviv or Israel entirely, let’s not perform in Berlin or Germany at all.

I’ve had it.