Condemned
“They came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.”
The ADL condemned the set as biased and hateful anti-Israel activism that made some attendees feel unwelcome.
- Speaker
- Anti-Defamation League
- Capacity
- Institutional statement by an antisemitism advocacy organization
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 9, 2026
- Targets
- Macklemore
- Classification rationale
- The statement directly rejects the performance’s content and its use of the concert setting.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
The ADL framed the audience as having expected a concert rather than political advocacy from the opening act.
After the quotation
It connected the performance to what it described as Macklemore’s longer record of demonizing Israel and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric.
Evidence
Complete source record
Anti-Defamation League statement on Macklemore’s MetLife set (opens in a new tab)
First-party ADL post characterizing the performance and describing its perceived effect on Jewish and Israeli concertgoers.
IAC urges Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore after anti-Israel act (opens in a new tab)
Reporting preserving attributed statements from the IAC, ADL, and StopAntisemitism, including text from posts that can be difficult to retrieve directly.