AMSTERDAM, May 29 — American rapper Kanye West, who has been banned from performing in several countries for past anti-Semitic comments, is scheduled to hold a concert in the Netherlands next month after the country’s immigration minister said there was no legal basis to deny him entry.
Dutch lawmakers had called on the government to ban West, now known as Ye, citing past comments and expressions of praise for Nazism and Adolf Hitler.
“There needs to be a solid basis for banning people from entering (the Netherlands). The analysis carried out found no such basis,” Bart van den Brink said on Friday.
“At this time, his past statements are not grounds for denying entry.”
The 48-year-old rapper will perform on June 6 and 8 at the concert venue Görredome in the city of Arnhem, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Amsterdam.
It will be Yoh’s first European performance since 2014, Gelredome said on its website.
Arnhem authorities said no protest permits had been applied for the concert so far.
Mr. Ye has faced growing global backlash, including the release of the song “Heil Hitler,” which promotes Nazism.
In April, the UK refused Yeh entry on the grounds that her presence would not contribute to the public interest, forcing her to cancel her scheduled appearance at the Wireless Festival in London.
Later that month, a concert in Marseille was also postponed, and a concert in Poland was subsequently cancelled, following reports that the French government had tried to block the performance.
In January, Ye took out a full-page ad in the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, renouncing his past admiration for Hitler and apologizing for his actions, blaming undiagnosed brain damage and untreated bipolar disorder.
