A festival in Slovakia that was to feature the controversial musician Kanye West has been cancelled.

The Rubicon festival in Bratislava came under fire for booking West — now officially known as Ye — who has made a number of antisemitic comments and who in May released a song called “Heil Hitler” that ends with a sample of a speech given by Adolf Hitler in 1935.

Organizers of the festival said on social media that the event — scheduled for next weekend — had been cancelled “due to external pressure and logistical challenges.”

Last month, a petition was launched calling for West to be dropped from the event. It called the booking “an insult to historic memory, a glorification of wartime violence and debasement of all victims of the Nazi regime.”