Sam Seder: Kraft's antisemitism monitoring is really billionaire self-surveillance
Sam SederHost, The Majority Report
Sam Seder mocked Robert Kraft's antisemitism-monitoring operation as billionaire paranoia, called Kraft "a really, really terrible person" over his IDF donations and Epstein correspondence, and said extreme wealth disconnects people like Kraft and Sheeran from mainstream opinion on the conflict, which he said is why they sided against Macklemore.
“I like that a billionaire's life is so safe and siloed that they have to like spend money to find fear.”
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Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” speech and removal from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour
At two Ed Sheeran concerts at MetLife Stadium, Macklemore called for a free Palestine, accused Israel of apartheid and genocide, and said criticism of Israel was not criticism of Jewish people. After venue objections, tour promoter Messina Touring Group said he would not perform the remaining U.S. Loop Tour dates. Critics characterized the performance as hostile or inappropriate; Macklemore defended it as a call for equal treatment.
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13:08 episode of The Majority Report with Sam Seder, published to YouTube September 17, 2026, discussing the Kraft/Macklemore/Sheeran fallout and playing a clip of Ben Shapiro's September 15 Fox News appearance. checked against the recording; the show includes a second, unnamed co-host voice whose lines are not separately attributed here.
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Said on the September 17, 2026 episode of The Majority Report, after playing a clip of Ben Shapiro's September 15 Fox News defense of Robert Kraft.
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Seder also noted Sheeran performed at Kraft's 2022 wedding, and said extreme wealth 'informs Zionism and makes it even more extreme because they're more disconnected from regular everyday opinion and democracy on this issue.'
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Seder does not evaluate Macklemore's on-stage conduct at all; his entire response attacks Kraft's character and motives and frames Sheeran's and Kraft's opposition to Macklemore as a product of billionaire disconnection from mainstream opinion, implicitly defending Macklemore's position as the reasonable one.
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