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.
now i wonder who’s fault is it
Thank GOD these Venues are going after ANTI SEMETISM by going after artists who
Have songs LITERALLY PRAISING HITLER!say Bombing Children is WRONG!Yeah, the fact that one of the venues refusing Macklemore just let Kanye West play two shows is straight-up hypocrisy.
Only one of those guys has made public statements praising Hitler. (As far as I know, at least.)
It’s not hypocrisy, they are consistent in their horrible values and ideology.
Country of freedom
I’ve seen AJR in tour twice. Once in 2022 when they did their OK Orchestra Tour. There’s a song in there called “3 O’clock Things”. The lyrics at the end of the song are:
Isn’t this obvious, am I insane? Let’s blame our parents ‘cause they taught us their ways Stay out of politics, stay on the fence Stay out of all of it to keep half your fans Isn’t this obvious, am I insane? There might be two side to everything that you say It’s all a bit cloudy, but there’s one thing I know That if you’re fucking racist then don’t come to my show.
Then a breakdown and everyone in the crowd screamed that line.
AJR is definitely not as big as Ed Sheeran, but they have been very open about supporting the left, performing at Joe Biden’s inauguration and refusing to go to Trump’s. I wish more artists had a backbone. It’s not like you’re going to be poor and broke. They have all the leverage. It would be so easy for them to make a change.
Cool. No clue who any of these guys are, but I’m with the macklemore guy. And no. I don’t want to know more.
The macklemore guy is an antisemite FYI
like a real one of according to Ben’s definition? If a real one, fuck this one too
Another commenter replied to this accusation with a context link.
I don’t know the deep beliefs this guy holds, but this costume + “from the river to the sea” (= ethnic cleansing/destruction of Israel) are tells for me.
Certainly ground for Ed Sheeran to drop him.
Kudos to Macklemore, and for shame to Sheeran
Ed is a fucking coward, this is known
Thankfully Ed Sheeran will refuse to play as well, in support of his musical peer. Right?
If you are not against then you are pro. Ergo, Ed Sheeran is pro-Genocide kind of person.
Black n white. Them and us. The only correct ideology - and the renegades.
These are one the prominent features of the fascist ideology. 💁
Genocide is fascist ideology, “chosen people” is a fascist ideology, what else you don’t understand?
Some things are black and white though.
Like rape is bad. If you meet someone’s who refuses to “take a side on the rape debate” then they’re just defacto pro rape.
Exactly. It’s so convenient to just start calling all men as rapers (because: they have penises!). Thus, all who disagree with this illogical term swap - are “siding with rapers”.
Like, before the invasion, putin has made all the official national media be spreading anti-nazi and neo-nazi campaign (presenting all ukranians as “nazi”). Thus, putin is not killing the ukranians - he is allegedly “fighting the neo-nazi”. How convenient!
The same way people who object juggling with the term “genocide” or who refuse to side with the motto “from the river to the sea” (urging to destroy Israel) are readily accused of "supporting genocide”. Also convenient!
Nah, i’m not buying this “anti-neo-colonial history revisit”. It has a simpler explanation: revanchism.
Okay, should have checked your accout before I engaged.
My guy you really need better hobbies than posting troll comments on Lemmy. This is just kinda sad.
Sorry (and glad) to disrupt your bubble!
I’m also amazed at how happily and willfully many in the West fall victims for populists’ agenda and can’t talk like…civilised humans 💁
Mate, thanks! I have a couple of hobbies already)
I’ve checked yours too. Here is a reminder (you might appreciate): if you say shit like that, but aren’t israeli youself, then you don’t actually give a shit about palestinians or your government making mistakes in Gaza, you’re just jumping on the bandwagon because it’s cool to hate Israel.
That doesn’t even make grammatical sense, but okay. Enjoy your le epic trolling little guy.
Israel should not exist. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. This is a chant to end the supremecist ethno-state and replace it with a state that respects all ethnicities and religions (much like existed before the zionists came to the region).
Also here’s a reminder that Israel bombed a synagogue in Tehran that is older than zionism.
You fail to understand not only the genocide (which is happening, but not as the hamass and other populists suggest). You also ignore that you replesent the core issue: the revanchism.
Would you stop putting your sick fantasies above the value of human lives, please?
Palestine, just like Teheran (the whole Iran), deserve to be free from vandals and terror fanatics in power, killing palestinians and iranians.
You are a western chauvinist to the core. The crusades failed, and zionism is failing too.
Sure, ok. Is the failing zionism in the same room with you? /s
Has it been the failing zionism in Gaza, when hamas has been killing palestinians - even in the absence of israeli?
Is it the anti-chauvenistic “measures” of ayatollahs - to hang and shoot thousands of protesting iranians (was it lately in the beginning of 2026)?
Well, I don’t think so. Barking up the wrong tree, probably.
oh there’s a fallacy for this! to make a claim so erogenous in an attempt to make the other person’s point seem objectively bad because it’s ‘connected’ to the bullshit your spewing! :D
There’s no need to make the other person’s point seem bad - if it’s objectively bad, though.Also:
the bullshit you’RE spewing!
You are welcome!
i gotta reply to this cause it’s funny
you’ve for no counter to my argument so instead you point out my mistake with the yors
… completely missing my dumbass mistaking egregious for erogenous lmao. like dude I set you up to get a really decent insult on my intelligence but you chose the other one
So it’s not a phallusy to make a really erotic claim in the hopes of getting my opponent to be negatively associated with my sensuous position?
I’m sure your dumdass didn’t preplan for any mistakes, dumb or funny (sure it was funny, and the following phallusy is a better one) - and it would be nice to hear the real argumentation.
I’m with you on this. Some folks just have a nuanced position on whether the holocaust was a bad thing. That doesn’t immediately make them an “antisemite” or a “horrible human being”. /s
How about “Ed Sheeran is a spineless coward who’d rather hoard even more intergenerational wealth than taking a political position”?
Macklemore the goat!
Been going back through and listening to a lot of rap from early 2010s, and I forgot how wonderful and outspoken a lot of them are. Lupe was speaking out against the bombings in gaza since Obama was in office.
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You do know that no nation is a monolith right?
There’s Israeli people who hate the genocide just as much as you do and are trying to stop it but against insurmountable odds
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests_in_Israel
There’s Israeli people who hate the genocide
Sure. And there’s the Klansman who has black friends. There’s the ICE agent who wants immigration reform. There’s the Jewish Nazi.
More information
:-/
And you ignored the anti-war protests part of the link?
The anti-war protesters didn’t have the widespread support of the Israeli people. They don’t have representatives in Parliament or the Netanyahu Cabinet. They aren’t the ones regularly lionized in Israeli media.
As an American you really don’t want to be painting all peoples of a nation one colour based on their extremists
I can’t imagine a better nation to describe the Israelis
I think OP is simply pointing out that the rhetoric the Israeli state uses with regard to Palestinian civilians and Hamas applies equally well (if not more so) to Israeli civilians and the Israeli state. Not necessarily endorsing it.
Nah, their reply makes it clear they’re not
Did you miss a “/s” there?
I get that you’re trying to mimic the rhetoric used by far right Israeli politicians, but doing so for real makes you no better than them. In that case the only redeeming aspect is your lack of action. Using this language sarcastically is, IMO, misguided and dangerous as it will make other people believe, that it’s an acceptable stance. It is not an acceptable stance.
You’re advocating for the killing of innocent children, because their parents are advocating for the killing of other children. Please say that we have moved on from that eye for an eye bs.
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Not wanting to get banned I’ve edited my response. Don’t bother responding from the same account, I won’t be seeing it.
If Pink’s reply (which seems thoughtful and balanced) is to be believed, it’s not due to support of Palestine as much as trotting out grotesque antisemitic caricatures and blaming all Jews for the Gaza genocide.
I watched the video of Macklemore, and he makes it crystal clear that criticism of apartheid and Israel is not criticism of judeism.
Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show. It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them.
I don’t think I’d be using Pink as a source anymore. She’s been up there with Bibi for a while.
From the article:
Macklemore took time to rebuke critics who may dub him antisemitic, declaring to Jewish audience members at the concert after his initial “Free Palestine!” exclamation that “Criticism of Israel [and] being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you.”
“Blaming all Jews,” riiiiight.
“Criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you” - Macklemore’s statement to his Jewish fans. Doesn’t really sound like he’s “blaming all Jews”, at all.
Pink is succesfully minimizing and normalizing actual antisemitism with this garbage.
Which is why there are pics of these caricatures and recordings of his “blaming all jews”.
Right?
Here’s a picture of the caricature
This was back in 2014 and the ADL accepted his apology for it. So he’s at least had antisemitic moments. Does that mean he’s blaming all Jews for the genocide? No.
The costume he put on with absolutely no other jewish or jewish adjacent context or even a little history of anti-semitism?
The one where after he wore it once, he was told by a bunch of jews ‘hey that’s a jew costume! Stop making fun of us!’ To which he responded, ’ Oh, shit, I never saw it like that. I can see where you could get that now. I’m sorry." Then he promoted the ADL, never wore it again, and never did anything “anti-semitic” again for over a decade? That is, until this “anti-Semitism” of saying ‘israel should stop genociding people’?
That incident? That’s the photo you’re providing as proof?
Yes, that is the image I found when I searched “Macklemore Jewish Caricature”. You aggressively asked for pictures of said caricature. I gave you a picture and provided the context that the ADL accepted his apology and I pointed out that it doesn’t mean he blames all Jews for the genocide.
Why are you mad?
I’m not mad, but the fact that you feel my first post asking for pictures was “aggressive” gives me a good insight into your emotional sensitivity. I apologize if my phrasing caused you discomfort.
It is very discomforting for me to see the entire major media landscape and almost all politicians in support of genocide and the violent suppression of voices and actions lifted to attempt and stop genocide. I use humor as a way to disarm my own feelings of terror at the sight of such overwhelming, callous destruction.
You responded to my request for pictures of Maclemore’s antisemitism, for which Pink is claiming he was just fired for, with a well publicized 12 year old picture. It seemed like you were attempting to pass it off as proof of his current position,.or of antisemitism at all. My mistake if you were just confused as to why it’s irrelevant. And my apologies for phrasing my response as if you were being intentionally misleading if you were not.
Nope not trying to pass it off as his current position. I genuinely thought you were demanding pictures of his past actions. I did not mean to be misleading.
I was classifying the costume as an antisemitic moment, which it was. He has since apologized and made good in the eyes of the Jewish community (apart from Pink) and doesn’t hold the views that that costume would suggest.
More to the point, saying “Free Palestine” isn’t an antisemitic statement at all.
Excellent! I’d like to speak to the costume itself. You seem to have a very different view of it than I do, and I’d love to get some guidance if you feel up to providing it.
I see the “anti-jewish propaganda nose” that is very obviously the nose from antisemitic literature over the years, but I do not see any other signs of this being and attempt at a “jewish costume”. Every other part of the costume, to me, screams of being a caricature of an upper middle class middle eastern business owner. I have never seen the bowl cut, beard, gold shirt, etc aspects of the costume as associated with jewish people at all.
I understand where Israel resides on an map and the history of the jewish people, I’ve just never seen overlap with those two caricatures. I am also not saying that Macklemore saying “hey I’m a greasy slimeball brown businessman” is any better. I’m just relaying what I see in an attempt to see what you, and others, saw.
Are racists really portraying jewish people in this way and I’ve just missed it? I’m sure there is a mountain of modern, online, magat cave, racist tropes that I’m just not caught up on.
I mean it’s pretty clearly irrelevant to the current topic
It’s actually directly relevant and I think Glytch is catching OP’s strays - by showing exactly what dozenyear old “scandal” the troll OP is referencing. I think everyone thought Glytch was trying to prove Mr ‘lemore is a current antisemite.
Everyone is on edge. Unrelatedly, grace is a really lovely concept that is truly humanist; the golden rule in action.
Thank you for keeping a level head. You evaluation of my intent is entirely correct.
Past actions have no bearing on the present? Interesting position to take.
I don’t think that person was mad, I think they were pointing out why they think it’s not illustrative of Mackelmore being antisemitic.
This literally didn’t happen. How do you live with such lies you tell? Does genocide make you happy?
Never like that dude since he agreed to go on game of thrones and just throw off the vibes.
“Excuse me. We don’t want people who are anti-genocide here. This is a pro-genocide event only! I brought my kid to the show and he was horrified by people who don’t want to slaughter and maim children and flatten homes!”
Seriously they keep calling it anti-semitism, when there in reality there is no act that is more antisemitic than genociding semetic people.
They also call it pro-hamas , or even pro-palestine, when in reality no it’s not pro-hamas and not even pro-palestinians, because there are palestinians who are pro-genocide. There is a group of palestinian armed malitia trained and weaponized by the IOF inside Gaza, and there is the PLO who are paid by the IOF and carry out assassinations under IOF commands against palestinians themselves.
They also call it anti-Judaism, when no… it’s anti Zionism.
So it is an anti-genocide at worst, and anti-zionism at best. And Ed Shreen is a twat. and so is this pos genocidal hypocrite cunt Pink. I hope their fans can see through these soulless genocidal sellout hollywood gouls for who they really are, and shun them for the entirety of their careers.
It’s not Ed Sheeran you should be angry with. It’s the stadium owners. Ed was put in a horrible spot when the stadium owners refused the ongoing sold out tour with Macklemore.
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I understand the position Sheeran was in. But, at best (I don’t Sheeran’s beliefs), when it came to the choice he accepted the stadium owner’s demands over the moral demands Macklemore is calling all people across the world to recognise.
That act supports the unjust persecution of Palestinians and marginalises the few brave voices like Macklemore’s who are willing to stand up against these humanitarian crimes. Sheeran deserves the backlash as well, and whether its his lack of moral fibre, or his ideological alignments, this instance should always tarnish him.
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He considers himself apolitical, so he does ideologically support the status quo.
By all means, Macklemore did the right thing. Ed is in the wrong. I’m just saying to pull the plug for him while on tour is hard. Im not sure everybody could do it as a headliner.
Wrong. It IS Ed Sheeran we should be angry at. Just as much as every other celebrity who shoves their heads in the sand behind the faaaaake pretend-time facade of “ohh, I’m apolitical”.
Genocide is not “political”. It’s an affront to humanity. Those who support it should be fkn executed. Those who pretend to not notice it so they can make a buck are tacitly supporting it. In a perfect world, they would be tacitly executed.
Yeah, look at mighty keyboard warrior over here… Execute every last one of them😂
starting to execute people left and right who doesn’t agree with you isn’t the way to go. Even with the paradox of intolerance in mind
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.
