Macklemore is turning his removal from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour into a new run of his own, announcing a three-city “Free Palestine Tour” in Europe with additional artists and U.S. dates still to come.
The rapper announced the benefit tour Thursday, with concerts scheduled for Oct. 26 at 3Arena in Dublin, Oct. 29 at Accor Arena in Paris and Oct. 30 at OVO Arena Wembley in London. Ticketmaster is billing the shows as “Macklemore & Friends,” though participating artists have not yet been announced.
Macklemore said all proceeds from the concerts will benefit organizations “supporting the Palestinian people and movement.”
Talking shit about Hamas does nothing but provide cover for the genocide. At this point we all know the shitty things Hamas has done, but they are fighting against an enemy who literally wants to exterminate every last non-Israeli person in the region. We can hold tribunals for Hamas once Palestine is free and the state of Israel is dismantled. In the meantime, at the very least hold your tongue and don’t carry water for the genocidal imperialists.
Nope, not holding my tongue about those who are harming the Palestinian cause. You can stay silent if you want.
You disingenuous fuck. Netanyahu funded Hamas. Action was purposefully delayed on October 7 and then Israel brought in Apache helicopters to shoot everyone. There were plenty of other political alternatives in the past, but they all got squashed because Israel never wanted to make peace with the people whose land they stole. Hamas is a strategic means to an end - that being a long term strategy for the annihilation of the Palestinian people.
There’s nothing disingenuous about calling out those who are oppressing the Palestinian people.
This is like saying the Red Army hurt the Soviet cause during WW2. Yes, there are things to criticize, but both forces are literally the only thing stopping complete annihilation at the hands of fascists.
More Hamas apologia. Disgusting.
More genocide apologia, disgusting.
If you think denouncing Hamas and the IDF and calling for the people of Palestine to be free is “genocide apologia” then your brain is truly rotted.
You are denouncing the very means that Palestine has of becoming free, therefore de facto supporting the genocide. It’s not complicated logic.
Hamas is not the very means that Palestine has of becoming free.
Fuck Hamas. Fuck the IDF.
Free Palestine.
How then should they become free if not through armed struggle?