00:00:00.000Ed Sheeran, for a reason no one can discern, decided that Macklemore would open for him.
00:00:04.000Now, Macklemore has not been relevant for, I don't know, 10 years.
00:00:07.000He was a one hit wonder, did a song called Thrift Shop, and then he's basically been wandering the fields of obscurity ever since.
00:00:16.000Well, a great way to sort of break out of the fields of obscurity is to say radical things at a concert these days.
00:00:22.000Because nobody would even know that Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran, because who goes to an Ed Sheeran concert to watch Macklemore?
00:00:28.000The only reason that he became Sort of a national class celeb again is because he went on stage and decided to shout about how Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza because this has become the litmus test for political wokeness.
00:00:41.000The old political wokeness was America is a white supremacist country.0.61
00:00:44.000The new political wokeness is Israel is a genocidal state in the Middle East.
00:00:50.000So the result of that is that Robert Kraft, who owned the stadiums in which Ed Sheeran was doing his concerts, said, We are not going to be doing this.0.97
00:01:02.000Like, you can perform wherever you want, but you can't perform in a stadium that I own telling overt and stupid lies, particularly from a person like Macklemore, who, of course, has dressed up in full scale Der Sturmer Jewish garb at concerts before.0.63
00:01:16.000He put out a statement Gillette Stadium has a long standing commitment to provide a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech.0.97
00:01:24.000Based on Macklemore's recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran's show in New Jersey, and a broader history of anti Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community.
00:01:33.000We determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line.
00:01:39.000This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf.
00:01:45.000Their pain and loss are real, but that advocacy should not come at the expense of the Jewish community or obscure the responsibility of Hamas, a United States and globally designated terrorist organization whose horrific actions have caused immeasurable suffering for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
00:01:59.000Too many lives have been lost and there's been too much suffering, but only sharing selective information and ignoring the actions of Hamas is not honest and only advances more divisiveness and hate.0.52
00:02:07.000And then he continues along these lines.
00:02:10.000Okay, here is the deal Bobcraft owns the stadium.
00:02:14.000He doesn't want you using the stadium, your problem.
00:02:17.000Yeah, I feel this way, generally speaking.
00:02:20.000And Macklemore, of course, is basically just attention seeking.0.98
00:02:24.000Who gives a crap what Macklemore thinks about the Middle East?0.97
00:02:29.000The dude could not spot Israel on a map if spotted Jordan and Lebanon.0.99
00:02:35.000But now he's going to turn himself into a hero.
00:02:50.000And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week.
00:02:54.000The types of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement.
00:03:00.000Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character, but as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.
00:03:10.000He said Ed was in an effed up position.
00:03:12.000He told me the words free Palestine and the images of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with.
00:03:16.000I told him if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, there was a fundamental disconnect.
00:03:22.000He couldn't get past his public facing, I don't take sides.
00:03:29.000Okay, let us be real in the entertainment industry.0.85
00:03:33.000What costs you in the entertainment industry is being pro Israel.0.79
00:03:37.000That is what costs you in the entertainment industry these days.0.90
00:03:40.000The number of actors in Hollywood who have been put out of jobs because they are pro Israel is incredible.0.93
00:03:48.000If you're in the entertainment industry and you show up at the Emmys with an Israel pin, things are not going to go well for you.0.96
00:03:55.000But if you show up with a Palestine pin, you will be cheered.0.82
00:03:57.000This is why at Venice Film Festival, a documentary filled with nonsense, like lies and nonsense, got a 24 minute standing ovation accusing Israel of deliberately murdering hundreds of Palestinian civilians just for fun.0.65
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00:04:23.000Doctors told a woman named Alba that pregnancy was impossible.
00:06:21.000Y'all It made tire for a couple dollars.
00:06:24.000Y'all no air White supremacy is still in charge sucking colonizing Gaza from the White House Lawn with the people mopping and we ain't backing up finally see the oh adjourn well just on a musical level.
00:07:01.000Well, Miss Rachel, who again has used her perch as a YouTube children's slot post to prop up terrorist sympathizers, by the way.0.97
00:07:10.000I mean, here she was literally alongside a terrorist sympathizer.
00:07:13.000And Yahya Sinwar fan named Motaz Azaza, right?
00:07:16.000And who spent all of 10 7 literally saying nothing, like nothing, and then has repeated every single anti Israel meme she can find.
00:07:24.000Well, she's out there defending Macklemore, of course.
00:07:27.000She says, I see you have a hierarchy of children's lives.
00:07:31.000There are two kinds of celebrities and leaders right now those who are willing to shout at the top of their lungs that over 20,000 Palestinian children shouldn't have been killed in the Gaza genocide, and those that remain silent because these children are not worth it to them.
00:07:47.000Second, that Israel did not commit a genocide because that is not what genocides look like.
00:07:51.000Genocides look like the mass extermination of a population, they do not look like the targeted killing of terrorists with the single best civilian to terrorist kill ratio.
00:08:03.000And there's no such thing as a great ratio because anytime a civilian dies, it's terrible.
00:08:06.000But if you're just talking about the efficacy of military action, there's never been a lower ratio in urban combat between terrorist death and civilian death than you saw in the Gaza Strip.
00:08:19.000Slot pushed by people like Pramila Jayapal in Congress.
00:08:22.000It's so incredibly disappointing that Macklemore, my constituent, was removed from Ed Sheeran's tour because of his commitments in support of the Palestinian people.
00:08:30.000We should all be outraged that powerful people are more upset about what an artist says than the displacement, starvation, and killing of innocent Palestinians.
00:08:37.000Well, no, they were concerned about his lies.1.00
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