You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. @AIPAC is NOT a foreign government. AIPAC is an American organization, 💯 supported by American citizens, that lobbies for a strong U.S./Israel relationship. Despise AIPAC if you want, but don’t lie about what it is.
.@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
Hey @mehdirhasan buddy, please don't wrap your bullshit in a mention of my daughter. Don't need your fake expression of sympathy. You are nothing but an Al Jazeera funded menace spreading bullshit with every utterance from your mouth. You have copied the NRA TV play book and you are no different than Dana Loesch or Grant Stichfield.
For what it is worth, not justifying anything. Actually calling out the terrorist regime Hamas that knowingly did this. The regime that put its citizens in harms way. That took money from the US and Israel and used it to do this. Why are you refusing to call out Hamas?
Question. I ignore your feed. I consider it destructive and a waste. Except for when you qoute me, I consider you irrelevant. Why are you spending your time trolling me? I am sure a person with as much self importance as you can find other people to harass. Oh yeah, again back to the NRA TV approach.
Nope my friend. If you hate the state of Israel, you hate Jews. If you are pledged to the destruction of the state of Israel, you hate Jews. If you do not believe the state of Israel has a right to exist, you hate Jews. Have a nice weekend.
If you hate Israel or Jewish people please do me a huge favor and fuck off. That also includes all you idiots who think we are bombing the shit out of Iran just because Israel said so.
I really don’t care how many of you unfollow me. I am tired of hearing this nonsense. Sincerely fuck off.
If you're the kind of person on the left who believes that expressing antisemitic views through other vehicles is appropriate, I want nothing to do with you.
I don't care how many other causes we agree on. I don't care if you're a huge champion of trans equality. I don't care if you've supported my work.
We're just done. There will be no email. There will be no text. I am not going to go fifteen rounds with you in unpacking why the antisemitic thing you said actually means something else when we both know you clearly meant what you said.
If you express hatred or antipathy or even what you feel is some "harmless" stereotype about the Jewish community, you have chosen to end our relationship.
I am not your non-Jewish colleague or friend who will tolerate your bullshit, hateful thinking.
I wouldn't tolerate it with misogyny or white supremacy or any other form of hatred, and I am sure as anything not going to tolerate it with antisemitism.
There is no need for nuance here because the nuance doesn't exist. If you're a grown ass adult who buys into any form of anti-Jewish hatred, you are not my friend or my valued colleague.
It's simple as that. The choice is yours.
Yes! Keep screeching about Palestine until you’ve torn the West apart and burned it to fucking ashes. Keep bleating like the pathetic sheep you are—because without your precious victimhood, you’d actually have to do something useful for once in your miserable lives.
Fourteen centuries of seething hatred toward the Jewish people, and you’ve got the fucking nerve to play the victim.
Your entire religion wouldn’t even exist without Judaism. Israel was there long before Rome, long before your backwards Mecca, and it’ll still be standing long after your kind are dust.
Keep talking, coward. Let’s hear it loud and clear: is it “human rights” you want, or the total erasure of every last Jew?
Why don’t you grow a fucking spine and just admit it:
you believe Israel is Muslim land and must be wiped off the map. Stop hiding behind Roman names and fake Western values you never believed in for a single second.
Fucking coward.
To my fellow Muslims in America,
Let’s stop pretending.
This country took us in. It gave us safety, schools, jobs, freedom to worship, things most of our parents and grandparents never had back home. America didn’t just let us live here; it let us become something bigger.
But some of us still act like we’re just visiting. Some put the ummah first, no matter their hypocrisies. Some think sharia should ever come before the Constitution. Some make excuses the second another “Allahu Akbar” shooter opens fire on our streets. Some scream for foreign flags while American soldiers and cops are bleeding ten miles from the White House.
If that’s you, do us all a favor: go home.
Go back to the country you or your parents ran from. They obviously need you more than we do.
The rest of us; the ones who tear up at the national anthem, who thank God every day we’re American, who see every citizen here as family, aren’t going anywhere. And we’re done staying quiet while the loudest voices make the rest of us look bad.
So here it is, plain and simple:
Put America first or get the f*** out.
No third option.
- An American Muslim who bleeds red, white, and blue. ❤️🤍💙