David Schwimmer Thanks Wireless Festival Sponsors for Pulling Out, Says Kanye West Has Not Properly Apologized to Jewish People: ‘I Believe in Forgiveness, But It Takes Much More Than This’ | 2026 Wireless Festival, David Schwimmer, Kanye West, Wireless Festival, Ye | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos

Wireless Festival might be asking for people to forgive Ye, formerly Kanye West, for his antisemitic statements and behaviors, but David Schwimmer feels like the rapper has not earned forgiveness yet.

The Friends alum, 59, shared a photo carousel post to his Instagram on Monday (April 6) thanking the corporate sponsors who have pulled out of the U.K. festival after Ye was announced as a headliner in June.

David specifically thanks Pepsi, PayPal, and Diageo for cutting ties with Wireless, writing, “It’s great to see companies with moral clarity.”

He said the festival “disgraced itself” by hiring Ye, who he says has become “one of the most recognizable hate-mongering bigots in the world.”

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“For years, Ye used his considerable celebrity to promote hate and violence against Jews, spreading antisemitic lies and stereotypes to his 33 million followers — more than twice the number of Jewish people alive today,” David continued. “Less than a year ago Ye released the song ‘Heil Hitler’ (rightly banned from all major streaming platforms), sold swastika T-shirts on his website, claimed he was a Nazi and threatened to kill Jews.”

The Band of Brothers star mentioned that while Ye did apologize via a paid ad in The Wall Street Journal, he recalls that the musical artist has apologized before, only to later “retract that apology and double down on his virulent hatred of Jewish people.”

David suggests the ad might have been part of a “PR scheme to assuage folks right before his long-planned return to stage.”

He continued, “So he’s launching a comeback, having recently played at SoFi Stadium in California (Kroenke family were you aware?) supported by Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, CeeLo Green and Don Toliver — artists who seem to shrug off his history of rabid antisemitism. Or maybe endorse it? Hard to say, since none of them ever publicly denounced his past remarks.”

David notes that thus far, Ye‘s apology has just been words but not action.

“The thing is, Ye‘s words and actions the last few years have caused incalculable, irreparable damage,” he wrote. “He has fueled world wide hatred and inspired violence against Jews everywhere, and his erratic behavior has repeatedly shown he can’t be trusted. It’s fine for his famous pals to pat him on the back and say, ‘It’s all good.’ But the community he has harmed most has no reason to trust his apology is authentic.”

The Emmy nominee went on to list ways in which Ye could make actual effort toward making amends, such as by explicitly disavowing his song “Heil Hitler” and pulling it, or by meeting with Jewish leaders, or even donating a portion of his Wireless profits to a charitable organization in the UK, where, he notes, “attacks against Jews, synagogues and Jewish businesses are among the highest ever recorded.”

“An apology letter is just that: Words on paper. An advertisement, generating publicity before a concert tour. It does not erase years of abuse,” David noted. “I believe in forgiveness, but it takes much more than this. Then again, I do not profit from his appearing at Wireless.”

“Until Ye demonstrates a commitment to building back trust — not only with the Jewish community, but with ALL the fans he left heartbroken and disappointed by his hateful rhetoric the last several years — he should not be granted a platform to perform,” he wrote.

The actor concluded, “To do so is to be tacitly complicit in what these companies know to be wrong, unethical and immoral.”

Aubrey O’Day recently responded to backlash after she attended two Ye concerts back to back.