I don’t know the first thing about Ed Sheeran besides the fact that he hired a really talented friend of mine to open for him after that friend faced a terrible family tragedy. So I always assumed he was a stand up guy.
With the exception of Finneas and Lukas Graham, the openers who canceled (and even his band) aren't artists with mainstream careers. And even Finneas doesn't have remotely the same profile as a solo artist. For all of them, opening for Ed in stadiums was an extraordinary platform.
And they canceled for what? To stand in solidarity with a guy with a history of disgusting antisemitic performances who has turned the Israel / Palestinian conflict into performative political theater?
This is so basic but something none of these jokers get: it is possible to care about a resolution to the conflict without endorsing antisemitism. You can advocate for Palestinians without demonizing Jews or Israel.
“Free Palestine” has become a shield for behavior that would be recognized as blatantly antisemitic if it were directed at almost any other minority.
People can say they’re criticizing a government while making sweeping statements about Jews. They celebrate or excuse people who glorify violence against Jews. They erase Jewish history, deny Jewish connection to Israel, apply standards to Israel that they don’t apply anywhere else, and repeat conspiratorial tropes about Jews, all while insisting that none of it is antisemitic because they’re apparently just “advocating for Palestinians.”
That isn’t solidarity with Palestinians. It is using Palestinians as a pretext for hostility toward Jews. And it hasn’t helped Palestinians, it isn’t helping Palestinians, and it won’t help Palestinians.
Tristan Peters 18-PITCH WALK!
It’s the most pitches a White Sox batter has seen in an at bat since MLB started tracking pitch counts in 1988. It’s just the 10th time in that span that an at bat has featured 18+ pitches and the first time since Cardinals catcher Matt Wieters flew out on the 19th pitch of an at bat in 2020
Every antizionist who believes they’re “on the right side of history” while defending a dude who literally does Nazi salutes in Jewface needs to realize how profoundly they have been brainwashed into being the foot soldiers of a global anti-Jew agenda without realizing it.
Part of the reason I go so hard for @RepJeffries , VP Harris, and other Black political leaders is because I know firsthand how hard it is to lead in American politics while navigating a racism that knows no boundaries and wears no single party label.
I know what it takes to walk into rooms where you’re judged differently, questioned more aggressively, and expected to prove yourself over and over again.
So when I see Black leaders carrying that weight, I’m going to stand up for them. (There are some personal exceptions…. Clarence Thomas 🤬) That doesn’t mean they’re above criticism. It means I understand that too often the criticism they face comes with a burden and a standard that others simply don’t have to carry.
@hasanthehun You’re neither a truth teller nor a journalist. You’re a bigoted lying fraud.
Thats not a headline. The actual headline makes explicit what the ‘news’ is-deleted tweets about 9/11 commemorations so yeah, relevant to a story about the 25 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks
@mehdirhasan@fred_guttenberg Good question. But, no. You should blame the constant stream of hateful rhetoric and vile bigotry that drips from your keyboard, you pathetic hypocritical whining turd
@hasanthehun Oh, Hasan, sweetie! I think it’s so cute how you think you’re at the center of every universe.
You’re just ONE of the anti-Semites the argument hinges on, not the ONLY one!
You silly bigot.
“It's very clear to me that he is not going to lean away from his conservative voting track record”
Ossoff’s voting record places him as one of the most liberal senators. Hasan does this thing where he’ll just make stuff up entirely in an effort to discredit his critics.
Again with this lie. Hasan does NOT support Democrats broadly; he supports a small, select, few that pass his personal purity test and that’s it. He explicitly said he would not support a moderate Dem in a hypothetical matchup with Vance and would vote third party.
I think your comparison of Piker to Loomer is exactly right. Both are vile and dangerous. And I don’t just oppose Hasan Piker because he’s an antisemite — he’s also a misogynist, a hate monger, and an illiberal con artist who makes millions from causing chaos.
Speaking of which, when will you respond to this tweet by @TheOmniLiberal: https://t.co/UF3V61XrNS
@hasanthehun Fucking Christ, dude, not every criticism of you is "defense of Israel," and perhaps you'd figure that out if you didn't have antisemitic worms where a brain should be.