My girlfriend and I attended the Ed Sheeran concert last evening in our company suite at MetLife with a number of guests; 34 to be exact (36 total attendees). I am not Jewish, however some of my guests are Jewish. I have never been more embarrassed, and shocked in my entire life. @macklemore is a complete clown for pulling the nonsense he pulled at BOTH “Ed Sheeran” concerts (Friday & Saturday evening). I have always been a Macklemore fan, but after his political stunt, I cannot support him or his music any longer. When you go WOKE, you have to be prepared to lose fans. After it happened on Friday, it should have immediately been stopped. This antisemitic behavior reflects so poorly on you @edsheeran .
Very sadly you were complicit in allowing it to continue on Saturday evening. When I go to a concert, I am going to hear amazing music. I am NOT going to hear “Free Palestine” rants. Macklemore spread anti-Zionist, and antisemitic propaganda. He also accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. What does any of this have to do with music ? Why do I need to hear this BS at a concert that I’m supposedly going to, to hear amazing music ? If Macklemore feels so strongly about Palestine, then maybe he should donate all of his tour earnings to them ? You were sensational Ed. You seem like such an amazing individual; someone so cool and down to earth. Someone that I would love to actually hang out with. It’s a shame that you would allow someone else’s performance to tarnish your amazing image. I just don’t get it. I saw this same nonsense a few years ago when @U2 , who I happen love, were trying to compare Michelle Obama to Harriet Tubman, and other notable women of African American descent. Why can’t music be about music ? I’m so sick of the attempted “indoctrination” of audiences that attend these concerts. There were young Jewish children in your audience last evening. How do you think they felt hearing these rants about Palestine ? It’s completely uncalled for. As a fan, I am prepared to stop attending concerts for good if this deplorable behavior continues. I will merely listen to the music I like on XM Satellite radio. What’s right is right !! What do you think about this @israeliamerican ? America is a free country. We are free to speak our minds. Maybe Macklemore thinks he is free to spread his propaganda and lies ? I am also free to spend my hard earned money how I see fit, and it won’t be on any more WOKE artists. You’re better than this, Ed Sheeran. Do what’s right here.
A Jewish fan addressed Ed Sheeran in an open letter on X following the uproar over the pro-Palestinian rapper’s opening act-and broke the internet: "I brought my wife and two daughters to MetLife Stadium on Friday because we are huge fans of yours. We arrived early, I spent $180 on two sweatshirts for them, watched the first two opening acts, and were having a great time. Then Macklemore decided to turn your concert into his political rally".
"When he started chanting 'Free Palestine' and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel/Gaza conflict, my daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to an Ed Sheeran concert, not to have an opening act lecture them about Middle East politics. After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore’s history. What I found, including his repeated use of antisemitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse".
"So I took my family and walked inside alongside hundreds of your other fans. As we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage. We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal".
"I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard. Then tonight you allowed it to happen again. You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again. Friday might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours. You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts. Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more".
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If @EdSheeran had a warm-up act that did blackface he would be gone before he sang or rapped a note.
So why have he and @LiveNation not yet dropped Macklemore, who does “Jew”face and has stunk up Ed’s tour with his divisive and hateful politics.
Dump him now!
@ConceptualJames I remember thinking I should block the term “woke right” on X because I did not think the threat was real a couple of years ago. You were so right, so early.
Yesterday, to send a message to the US, Putin bombed the airport that Steve Witkoff @SteveWitkoff and @jaredkushner were supposed to fly into in Ukraine today, which forced them to take the train instead.
Putin and Russia did this while Witkoff and Kushner were in Moscow Russia.
It was a power move.
How can the US keep saying Russia and Putin want peace?
They bombed the airport so the US delegation couldn’t fly in under a fake ceasefire.
.@edsheeran I brought my wife and two daughters to MetLife Friday because we are huge fans of yours. We arrived early, I spent $180 on two sweatshirts for them, watched the first two opening acts and were having a great time.
Then Macklemore decided to turn your concert into his political rally.
When he started chanting “Free Palestine” and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel/Gaza conflict, my daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to an Ed Sheeran concert, not to have an opening act lecture them about Middle East politics.
After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore’s history. What I found, including his repeated use of antisemitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse.
So I took my family and walked inside alongside hundreds of your other fans. As we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage.
We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal.
I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard.
Then tonight you allowed it to happen again.
You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again.
Friday might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours.
You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts.
Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more.
@CombatASemitism@StopAntisemites
Roger Waters goes to a fortune teller and asks, "On what day will I die?"
The fortune teller looks deep into her crystal ball and tells the musician of Pink Floyd fame, "You will die on a Jewish holiday."
Roger Waters gets nervous and demands, "Which one? Purim? Hanukkah? Passover? Which holiday will it be?"
The fortune teller replies, "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday."
Ted Cruz describes the threat Tucker Carlson is posing to the Republican Party, saying he is “the single most dangerous demagogue in America.”
Tucker has decided to go to a very dark place and has almost become indistinguishable from Ilhan Omar when you look at the fact that practically every episode he does is attacking Israel, the Jews, and Trump.
He has done shows praising Mamdani, Maduro, and Putin, and defending Sharia law. That’s a lot of things, but it’s not conservative and it’s not American.
The biggest problem with Tucker is that a lot of young people listen to him, and they’re being told by figures like Tucker, Matt Gaetz, and MTG to hate Israel, to hate Trump, and to hate America too.
And the danger of antisemitism is that it is a gateway drug to anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism.
@tedcruz makes the ultimate point that he doesn’t want that to be our party and he doesn’t want that to be our country. Conservatives can’t allow these un-American people to take it over.
750,000 NYC voters have no memory of 9/11 because they weren't even born when it happened.
Zohran Mamdani won his primary by only 129,940 votes.
Just 17% of post-9/11 voters, 1.7% of NYC, put the "globalize the intifada" guy in control of New York City.
Early Wednesday morning my son went into cardiac arrest. CPR and defibrillation were performed for almost 60 minutes. They were able to restart his heart, but the lack of oxygen was too much to overcome.
We have just been told all organs are good for transplant. In the next few hours, multiple people are going to receive a phone call that their prayers have been answered.
If you receive that call, I want to meet you someday. I want to tell you about him, his belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior, his service to our country and the impact he had on his family and friends.