BREAKING: EVERY scheduled opening act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour has now withdrawn after Macklemore was dropped over his pro-Palestinian remarks.
Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Finneas have all pulled out, while Sheeran’s touring band Beoga has also quit. Each cited solidarity with Macklemore, Palestinians, or opposition to artists being silenced.
Ed Sheeran has released a statement on Macklemore being removed from his tour for speaking up for Palestine:
“Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine. Macklemore's contract for the tour was with the promoter, not me. […] I am not complicit. I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have them, and it doesn't mean I don't care. Nor does it mean I don't support causes in my own, personal way.”
🚨HORRIBLE: A child walks alone through the rubble, carrying his schoolbag as Israeli tank fire and aircraft strike nearby in Gaza.
He crosses hundreds of meters of destroyed homes, exposed to the immediate danger of being killed, just to reach his classroom.
This is a child’s reality in Gaza‼️
told you the israel advocacy orgs would hit the venues hard. its quite remarkable how much they exercise control over free expression.
being for palestinian emancipation is the moral majority position, and yet, corporations still cave to these ridiculous pressure campaigns.
Solidarity and all respect to @macklemore ✊🏼
To the Zionist lobby if you call out genocide you're labelled a terrorist - meanwhile they're the ones cheering on a genocide and war crimes.
Freedom for all oppressed people.
Tiocfaidh ár lá!
The fact that Western politicians and mainstream media outlets aren’t even questioning why on earth ISIS -of oll terror organizations- is suddenly revived only to traget Spain -of all countries- just days after Spain criticized Israel’s genocide and illegal wars, tells you what a dystopian shithole we are living in.
There is, at this point, no doubt whatsoever that ISIS was/is an Israeli-created and controlled terror organization.
Now remember the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by ISIS, the entire regions destabilized by ISIS, the historic sites destroyed by ISIS, the trillions spent on stopping ISIS -and the millions of refugees created by ISIS with all the political implications of the migration crisis in Europe and elsewhere.
All of this done by an Israeli created and controlled terror group.
You're making GTA 6 for the investors and shareholders, not for the people who actually play your games. If you were making it for them, you'd listen to criticism and this shit wouldn't have escalated to this point.
13 years. Billions of dollars. Supporting anti-consumer practices. Raising prices. Refusing to communicate with your player base about any of it.
You made your bed, pissed all over it, and now you're looking at us like it's our fucking fault. Nah. You lay in it.
Beloved Palestinian academic, teacher & poet Refaat Alareer's (@GazaWritesBack) last poem before he was murdered by Israel was about the kids in Gaza playing with Kites.
Today Israel killed a 4 y.o kid for doing just that!
Brian Cox reads below Refaat's poem," If I Must Die"
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.