A scheduled performance from Kehlani at Cornell University in New York State has been canceled, with the university's president issuing a statement on behalf of a divided student body. The school confirmed their decision to remove Kehlani was due to her making what were felt to be "antisemitic,

Selecting Kehlani to headline Cornell’s annual Slope Day “has injected division and discord” into the event, university president Michael I. Kotlikoff wrote in a letter.