Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after 'Free Palestine' comments
Macklemore has put out an incredible statement about being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour. His removal was engineered by Trump’s bestie Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots and Foxborough stadium who rallied other owners to silence Macklemore for speaking out about Palestine.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin122I was at the first show and Macklemore’s statements were so tame, and backed up by statements that opposing Israel’s policies in Gaza and the West Bank is not antisemitism. I really encourage everyone to read the whole damn statement. It’s brilliant. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
crockadoodledoo.bsky.social46Pretty weak of ed sheeran
waywewerent.bsky.social36Ed Sheeran does not look good here.
chonkdog.bsky.social33Ed should have done the honorable thing and pulled out of playing at their venues over that threat. He could have easily found a new venue and let those assholes eat the loss in revenue that would have accompanied.
Jack Brand28The hilarious part is that Robert Kraft thinks there will be no backlash, that it will be a net PR gain for his side. Yes, they are really that stupid.
Meg Conley24Oligarchs silence people who tell the truth.
Don Bones 15This would probably be a good time for Sheeran to take a principled stand, but he won't because he's a weird little goblin.
Dirty D6Makes me happy we embarrassed them twice in one year
Wile E. Peyote5Ed Sheeran is a bitch. I'm sorry to Macklemore about any mean things I may have said about him in the past. Anything I may have said about his music still stands tho.
Renée the Wicked Witch of Woke ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇5Where are the freedom of speech absolutists at? Beginning to think they weren't real.
Señorito Iván 🔻🇵🇸🇪🇭4En el siguiente slide del post de Macklemore en ig, cuenta que el PUTO MIERDASECA de ed sheeran le ha dicho: “I don’t take sides”. No, si ya has elegido bando, asqueroso.
Kyle Hyde4The only remaining dates at NFL stadiums: Philadelphia, Foxborough, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Arlington TX, Tampa. I sure hope there are some pointed questions to owners about this, especially the Cities of Philadelphia and Arlington who own those stadiums
Encinitas Highlands Surfer4Billionaires' power derives strictly from their ability to allocate capital, we should work diligently every day to reduce their ability to gather such sums and to translate their capture into allocation decisions. Also, Sheeran misses an opportunity at promotion by not giving Kraft the finger.
Spork loves you3Starting* to think that perhaps having literally Everything in the control of like three-dozen hyper-wealthy oligarchs, who can arbitrarily make life impossible for anyone for any reason they feel like, may not be compatible with free speech and democracy. *since 1999 or so but who’s counting
Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate3Boycott #KraftGroup. #Macklemore #Kraft. Shame #EdSheeran didn’t have the courage of Macklemores convictions.
Micha 🏳️🌈 | Go Vote! (Berlin/MV)3No way "no one will be free until all of us are free" Thats why he is not allowed to play anymore?? And for Ed Sheeran money is more important than anything else, he carries on playing without him? So he is involved in the suppression of art! I won’t be listening to any of his music!l anymore!
Turns out the person who demanded that Macklemore be removed was Patriots owner Bob Kraft under threat that he would cancel their tour stop at the Patriots stadium. Oligarchal pressure stomping the first amendment. Also Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward. Writing about all this now.
Dave Zirin110I mean.... do people know that Bob Kraft is an AIPAC megadonor, raises funds for the IDF, and has even set up the organization Touchdown for Israel, where NFL players are given free, highly conscripted trips to see “the holy land"? Suffice it to say, the West Bank and Gaza are not on the tour.
Chuck Taggart, Private Eye109Ed Sheeran is worth $400 million. Ed Sheeran has fuck-you money. Ed Sheeran did not say fuck you to the stadium owners and demand they fulfill his contract. Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward.
Christian Petersen14It's ironic that Sheeran's desperation to be everything to everyone, while offending absolutely no one, is the reason why millions now despise him. It's also the reason why his music has ALWAYS sucked.
Brian O'Halloran13Bob Kraft, the massage parlor enthusiast? That moral guardian?
Butlerian Jihadist9remember that Bob Kraft is in the epstein files
They should’ve had Kraft cancel the show. The backlash would’ve been immense.
Ron Marz28Ed Sheeran could've had an easy, all-time win if he told Kraft to get bent, and then put on a free show in a public space. But nope, he folded like wet cardboard.
send mike elias to the hague9Macklemore alluded to this in his statement, but with his goal being to get people’s attention back on Palestine - he has already won. Streisand effect, etc. I had no idea Macklemore was on this tour and speaking out, until Pink did what she did online - and it became a story.
Bob Collins3If you're against this sort of thing but you still watch or attend the NFL, you're basically a big part of the Bob Kraft cabal. Pick a side, you coward.
Marje, herself3Would LOVE to see Ed Sheeran’s ticket sales tank for this tour.
Jesse Mortenson3Follow Dave for incisive work on sports, culture and politics! The man has been on that beat for a while.
Macklemore: Genocide is bad. Ed Sheeran: Hey some people find those words very hurtful.
hulkling 86 4710“releasing the epstein files will hurt my friends”
n0etic7I am happy I can’t name an Ed Sheeran song. Manly because I listen to so much furry music I never really hear popular songs.
Marilyn Difficult Shepherd2Don't forget Pink, ''some of her people were upset"
RebirthOfMercy🏳️⚧️LVGIII1this is left vs liberal in a pop star nutshell.
lemmysee.bsky.social1maybe a billionaire genocide would change his mind
MickS1Especially those who follow Judaism and are saying never again, who are different to those doing it again. The Zionist dream needs to stop. I personally think it was what got JFK killed, his staunch Israel will not have nuclear weapons and must open up ALL of Dimona to two Israel PM's in 1963.
Ed Sheeran is a centrist coward. Not "taking a side" on genocide is pro genocide
Prickly Pete 🌵5I can't stand this bull 'apolitical" stuff. The reason Hitler came to power and Trump was voted in and Russia is owned by Putin is the people who think they aren't picking sides. Well assholes, you have the blood of innocent people on your hands, cowards.
Gallowglass 🌳🦌Druid VT3Did the touring managers not even bother to search up Macklmore or his music before they booked him as a support act? It's either that or Sheeran is terminally oblivious.
Christian Petersen3It's ironic that Sheeran's desperation to be everything to everyone, while offending absolutely no one, is the reason why millions now despise him. It's also the reason why his music has ALWAYS sucked.
Mary Grace2I want fence sitters to fall off their fences like humpty dumpty.
shindig991This recent article & animation shows how Israel has employed the expropriation playbook to the hilt. They're systematically exterminating the Palestinians in their own lands. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
johnnythewolf.bsky.social1Sure, but so is paying lip service to the Palestinian cause - which has now been made the mainstream position (again). Let us not forget that Biden himself spent the last year of his presidency doing just that - and he did everything he could to enable the Gaza Genocide and let Trump escalate.
Praxis💎🏳️⚧️31"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice!" Free Will, by Rush
SAX-myth ΘΔ 🏳️⚧️🏴8"I don't take sides" he says as he gives in to the demands of one side and stabs another in the back
Ellie the Unskippable Cutscene 🪓🍺3Free Palestine is only feels hurtful to people who support genocide and killing children, so they deserve to feel hurt.
FLASHBACK: “Free Palestine- to all my Jewish brothers & sisters: Criticism of 🇮🇱’s genocide is in no way a criticism of you… none of us will be free until we are all free.” 👇🏽 @macklemore booted off Ed Sheeran’s tour for this after pressure from @patriots owner Robert Kraft🤔
Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy13Well now we know more about Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and the Patriots.
Feathered Stone8Just deleted all pink and ed Sheeran They don’t need my money😉😉😉
chonkdog.bsky.social7The New England Patriots might as well change their name to the New England (White) Nationalist.
Neera Tanden Eats Laura Loomer's Ass5Robert Kraft the same man who was busted at a massage parlor a few years back. 🤦♂️ Who the fuck would listen to what that man has to say?
"Whiskey" Callahan3It's no secret that Robert Kraft is a child rapist in the Epstein Files who paid Epstein for access to children that he raped. Patriot fans are okay with that. Evidently Ed Sheeran is perfectly comfortable with it as well, or he wouldn't take marching orders from a child abuser in the first place.
sympathizer of many, many different dimensions3Sports teams should not be owned by rich people.
Seattle rapper Macklemore said billionaire New England Patriots owner, Robert "Happy Ending" Kraft, told Ed Sheeran that Macklemore would not be allowed to perform at Gillette Stadium for saying "Free Palestinians" and rallied other stadium owners to follow suit. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Maggie Priceless🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦14Ed Sheeran didn't understand the assignment.
mecha-sheep.bsky.social8And of course, Robert Kraft is a billionaire pervert. The Epstein class strikes again.
Bobby-Ray6“Antisemitism is real” "the word matters too much 2 be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying ‘Free Palestine’ gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.”
youngcrone.bsky.social4We need to stop giving these stadium and team owners all those millions in tax money when they're the ones grabbing the profits and now coercing the art or even players taking a knee.
James Whitby3The wrath of the EPSTEIN/AIPAC CLASS.
agrippa999.bsky.social3And yet morons will still buy the NFL’s product. Or the NBA, or WWE, or…whatever. Fuck the lot of them
Fan-run Ed Sheeran tour account announces it will take a break: "LoopTourUA is deeply saddened & disappointed by Ed & his team's decisions…it is not a political stance to be against the massacre of innocent people and their homes and we hope Ed Sheeran can see this…"
Jeremy Chao11Shades of when the @LegitTayUpdate account on Twitter revealed they went to prison for refusing to join the IDF.
WhatRWeDoingHere2Just a really bad decision from the "business" folks surrounding these artists.
The Food & Wine Diva1We don't care what Sheeran thinks about anything, ever. IMO, he's always been creepy. I never bought or listened to his music, and now he's proved he's 💩, so he's dead to me. Boycott his concerts, don't platform him, and don't buy his music.
Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape20When you make a decision so bad that you alienate the core fan base giving you endless amounts of free marketing.
sallyposts/mall ghost10I guess I gotta apologize to ed sheeran fans for assuming they would have no guts or soul or moral core
dog on the spectrum4second best fan page update since
Jodi Jacobson4It is a political stance. C'mon folks. Everything is. It's a morally righteous one that many people are too cowardly or complicit to take, but its a political stance.
Absolute Fareed3DickhEd Sheeran is going to have to make a statement about why he caved to a sex pervert over a genocide.
Anadarko2Lmaoooo we’re cancelling Ed Sheeran. Good shit
Mech-Might 🏳️🌈2I keep forgetting that Ed Sheeran is British. No wonder he's an ignorant tool bag. (This is a dig at specifically rich Brits, not the average tea drinker)
Macklemore reveals Ed Sheeran and his team removed him from his tour after his Free Palestine statements: “He told me that the words ‘Free Palestine’ and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with.“
Pop Crave107“I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, ‘I don't take sides.’”
Jessica, Jess, Jesse 😊6I totally support Macklemore and to hell w P!nk and and Sheeran. They sold their souls for people to be slaughtered. It’s too much for them to stand up for human life I guess
misternyx.bsky.social1Confirmed, Ed Sheeran is Pro Genocide.
nik ˙ ✩°˖🍂⋆｡˚꩜65HURTFUL???? free palestine. those words aren’t hurtful. those words should be the truth and said with confidence.
自由と正義のRainbow Cleric 🏳️🌈🇯🇵36Being apolitical in matters of injustice and genocide are in fact taking the political side of the oppressor Free Palestine
David25Heavy esto. Macklemore demostrando integridad, ética y humanidad. Y perdiendo su amistad con Ed Sheeran (y probablemente la mayoría de sus oportunidades laborales) por defender al pueblo palestino
nenu19Macklemore stood on his humanity and Ed Sheeran and Pink and Kraft and all these stadium owners will die complicit of terror borne, blood money in the face of the most widely televised genocide in all of history
Salt is ready for HLWT! 1/2 of Selmo (real 🩷) |-/15I don't give a damn who you are. If your brand deals are more important to you than speaking out against the active genocide in Gaza, you don't deserve your brand deals. Oh, it'll hurt somebody's feelings? Boo-fucking-hoo! You're an adult! Get a new promoter for different venues! This is your job!
Anna Horford13Ed Sheeran saying, “I don’t take sides” when talking about literal GENOCIDE is everything that’s wrong with this world.
jorge requiem9puto bizco sionista pelirrojo feo de los cojones, por fin me da una excusa para meterme con él le odio desde shape of you que COÑAZO DE HOMBRE
🎃Spooky Witchy n Bitchy JoJo 🖤9If you have to decide between supporting a country whose lost tens of thousands of their people vs making more money for yourself, and you pick the money side… I really hope the screams of those people haunt you for the rest of your life. Good job Macklemore for standing his ground.
Lady Luddite (KJ Colt)8I know nothing about Ed Sheeran except he’s always heralded as this “nice guy”
“ZESTY” Taylor 🎶🧑🏻🦲✨8I have always known deep in my soul that I would one day be vindicated in my dislike of Ed Sheeran
following this ed sheeran macklemore thing rn tldr; macklemore made a statement supporting freedom for palestine, then sheeran personally told him robert kraft- the owner of most of the stadiums they were booked at, massive AIPAC donor, personal friend of epstein- said he'd cancel their shows-
jess m. ☕🍂133-at these venues if they didn't cut macklemore. So they of course caved, and now he's out. This is such a prime example of using your power to quash any sort of dissent. Normally I wouldn't care about this drama but it's important funny enough kanye and his "heil hitler" shit is touring to problem
🦋 Amadeus18You can beat your partner be a bigot or repeat assaulter or proclaim how much you love Trump and/or Hitler but concert venues draw the line at free Palestine apparently
Adri15pink has been up her own ass over it too didn’t think I’d be out here supporting macklemore in the big 26 but here we are
Macklemore says Ed Sheeran dropped him from his tour after the rapper’s pro-Palestinian remarks at MetLife Stadium because Patriots owner Robert Kraft called & said he “would not be allowed to perform” when the tour reaches Gillette Stadium this month. Robert Kraft is apparently anti-free speech
Timmy7Ed Sheeran is a twat
𝔄𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔙𝔢𝔦𝔩5Robert Kraft is a notorious piece of fucking shit. Google him.
Lucylu4No surprise Kraft is an Epstein class guy
😈 Leela The Monster 🧛♀️3Kraft is a little bitch.
Wheredafukarwi2Billionaire throwing his weight around. More of this incoming. 🤬
kelpspy.bsky.social1Ah! but Krafty is not anti-pedophile 😈
