SCOUT· 34%11m·2026-09-16·News PoliticsEd Sheeran support acts quit after Macklemore ‘Free Palestine’ row - The Latest
All four supporting acts for the upcoming dates of Ed Sheeran’s tour have withdrawn in solidarity with fellow opener Macklemore. The American rapper was removed from Sheeran’s tour after comments made onstage in support of Palestine. Sheeran responded that venue owners – including Robert Kraft who owns the New England…
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“"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" - Dr Martin Luther King Jr”
“Mad respect for Macklemore. Boycott Ed Sheeran, Pink and Kraft!”
“The Irish thought Ed Sheeran was ginger like the folk singer Luke Kelly, instead, he's ginger like Henry the 8th.”
“You cannot be ‘neutral’ on genocide.”
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