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Macklemore has announced that he was being removed from Ed Sheeran's tour after a pressure campaign from stadium owners over his pro-Palestinian stance. “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup.”

truthout.orgMacklemore Booted From Ed Sheeran’s Tour Over Solidarity With PalestineRobert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, allegedly led a pressure campaign to get Macklemore kicked off the tour.

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14 Sept

In his statement, Macklemore detailed how the pressure campaign was started by billionaire Robert Kraft, a backer of Israeli government leaders and the owner of Gillette Stadium. “Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum.”

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“Privately owned sports stadiums should never threaten to ban musicians because they dare to oppose a genocide, and publicly owned stadium entities cannot engage in such censorship without violating the First Amendment,” CAIR deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said.

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Rick—The Political Gardener

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15 Sept

Free Speech is always acceptable until it annoys a capital—ist and now the faces of cancel culture are all too easy to see. It's the Billionaire Class, their Pedo mates and Apartheid Loving Racists who can have total free speech and everyone else must obey them Capital—ism 101 peeps.