StopAntisemitism welcomes Macklemore’s removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour
Institutional social-media statement by an antisemitism advocacy organization
“Breaking: antisemite Macklemore is dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour. Thank you to @Pink for calling out Macklemore’s problematic behavior and for not backing down when the haters came after you!”
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Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” speech and removal from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour
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Original post
StopAntisemitism welcomes Macklemore’s removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour (opens in a new tab)Complete X post and timestamp
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Primary X post. It directly attributes this reaction to StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) and provides the post text and timestamp.
Before the quotation
StopAntisemitism posted after reports that Macklemore had been removed from the remaining U.S. tour dates.
After the quotation
The organization thanked P!nk for criticizing Macklemore’s behavior.
How this statement is classified
The organization explicitly labels Macklemore’s conduct antisemitic and endorses the removal, which is a direct condemnation of the conduct at issue.
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Read the full case“Glad to see Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour. For years, Macklemore has pushed antisemitic tropes and demonized Israel and Israelis. Now he certainly has the 1A right to speak out and express his views, but demonizing Jews and Israelis shouldn’t be rewarded.”Read statement
“The moral narcissism of this guy. People don’t generally pay to go to concerts (certainly not Ed Sheeran ones) to get lectured by a dropkick about geopolitics, and objecting to that doesn’t make them bad people. It’s like giving a speech about cancer at someone’s wedding and then saying well cancer is more important than your feelings and so it’s my right and duty to give a speech about cancer and if you complain about it you obviously don’t care about cancer. There are layers of logical fallacy here. As I’ve noted before, sufferers of Israel derangement syndrome think that everybody else should be as deranged as they are, and that those who are not are morally inferior.”Read statement
“This will backfire spectacularly on Kraft et al (and proponents of the current Israeli government around war in Gaza). Most of us were unaware of Macklemore’s on-stage advocacy. Now, in the aftermath of this move by Sheeran (direct result of Kraft’s ultimatum), Macklemore is going to get an insane amount of positive earned media.”Read statement