Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.”
Now, it seems that American venues are not willing to play ball with the Seattle artist, and he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour.
“After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates,” according to Messina Touring Group, the promoter of Loop Tour. This news follows backlash from organizations like StopAntisemitism and others, such as pop star Pink.
TL;DR Ed Sheeran is a fascist.
Thank GOD these Venues are going after ANTI SEMETISM by going after artists who
Have songs LITERALLY PRAISING HITLER!say Bombing Children is WRONG!Fuck ed sheeran
Well macklemore is straight up an antisemite. Here he is performing in a “Jewish” costume.
Ed Sheeran is the dictionary example of ‘ginger prick’.
Been sitting on that for a long while, now i have zero qualms about calling him as such.
now i wonder who’s fault is it
“stakeholders” decided this, btw, not Sheeran himself.
reminder that capitalism only ever thinks about “stakeholders” and “profit”
And ed Sheeran, who is immensely popular and will be fine, should just refuse to play the rest of the tour.
“But he has a contraaaaact” don’t wanna hear it.
Sheeran’s established enough to have his own opinions.
If he wants to keep good will then he should start his concerts by saying free Palestine then.
Same thing
Ed Sheeran sounds like a loser.
Sorry Ed, but there’s no such thing as being “apolitical” anymore. Willingness to ignore the current reality is a political statement in and of itself, and a terrible one at that. If you aren’t willing to seize this moment and stand up for what is right, you can go the fuck away.
I get that it wasn’t his decision whether or not Macklemore got booted, but it was his choice not to go down with the anti-genocide ship, and he did so because he doesn’t want to lose the pro-genocide cash.
What is so threatening about divesting and wanting peace?
I’m a municipal government official in Texas, and I’m required to deny contracts to companies that don’t support Israel.
Like: it’s a specific contract review criteria mandated by state law.
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Speaking up for Palestine isn’t antisemitism.
Saying that Israel is a genocidal country isn’t antisemitism either.
Given that the Palestinian people are Semitic people themselves, I would say that systematically destroying their lives, homes, and culture is more antisemitic than any combination of words that any person could ever string together.
There are no “semitic people”. It’s a racist term coined by some German dude ages ago and it has no scientific value at all. Stop making antisemitism about Palestinians.
This is true, although, I’m not sure what you mean by that last part.
The term anti-Semitic itself is racist as there are no people of “Shem”. The concept is a weird mashup of those native to the Levant and those who follow the Jewish religion or culture. Anti-Jewish would be a way better descriptor over antisemitic, but Zionists love the term antisemitic as it creates a false impression that their enthonational religious claims over the Levant are historically founded over the native Palestinian population.
If there are no Semitic people, then there are no Palestinians.
Genetic testing has shown that the Palestinians are, by and large, Canaanites.
They are by default a semitic people.
brb buying all the Mackelmore mp3s I like
Billionaires and conglomerates own all the venues and get to dictate terms as they see fit. Exactly as designed.
Good. How dare he not support the genocide??? /s
Jesus was a Palestinian.
That’s… so complicated it’s not even worth categorizing.
Are we talking about historical Palestinian or modern Palestinian? How do you define Palestinian historically anyway? The area he was born in was Judea. He was of Jewish faith, but wasn’t happy with parts of it. But Judaism was practiced among historic Palestinians too. And not everyone in Judea was of the Jewish faith. And so on.
People moved around. Different groups merged and split.
What I can tell you is that if Jesus did exist for real and if he taught what he’s said to have been taught, he’d be fucking appalled at what Israel’s doing and would be advocating for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Aren’t modern Palestinians quite closely related to the people who used to live in historical Palestine 2000 years ago?
Well yes and so are Israelis since Jews in exile have historically kept themselves a bit isolated from other groups, but Palestinians (or their predecessors) and Judeans intermingled more in the olden times than Palestinians and Israelis do now. If you go back further than Jesus’ era, they share common ancestry. The distinction has grown bigger over time.
Additionally, historic Palestine was mostly Jewish before Islam took hold. So there were fewer cultural differences back then too. Even now, there are Jews (both religion and ethnicity) in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims (largely overlapping) in Israel, with many of those Arabs being Palestinian Arabs.
Makes the whole conflict look even more stupid, doesn’t it?
Was he not a jew also?
Two things can be true.
He was also an immigrant.
And a hell of a bowler!
Master of hide and seek, never been found!
Eight-year-olds, Dude.
