# Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the Backlash Against Palestine Activism

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2102097402601562613
- Source account: [@bisan\_\_bisan](https://x.com/bisan__bisan)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 2026-09-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism) Ed Sheeran, you were not perfect tonight.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=4) Let me tell you why. Canceling and sidelining an actor for advocating a cause is not new. Actually, it's Hollywood's and other cinema and entertainment venues for over a hundred years.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=16) Why? Good question. Because art reaches every home, while politician and wealthy reaches nothing. Therefore, art can make the change that politicians fear. Oh, wallahi, exactly as I'm telling you.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=29) Ya ‘am, el ‘ud wayn? Dawwart ‘alayh fi kull makan.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=33) Even before writing, humans used rhythm and melody as a storage system to pass down the, uh, survival facts and the knowledge. Wow, lageyto. Songs also united us, synchronized our efforts, and built the community trust even before laws existed.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=54) Maksour. Let's fix it. I'm not saying all celebrities are messengers, but yeah, they can influence or make a traffic in a certain cause, and that's why they need to commit a certain path these days to protect a certain system.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=66) Ya‘ni, why to sing for Palestine to say free Palestine when you can sing for violence and drugs? Charlie Chaplin was the most known man on the planet when the US expelled him over anti-war, anti-American, uh, uh, speech and, uh, left-wing views in the '40s. Crosby, Nash, Stills, and Young released

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=85) Ohio, protesting the Kent State shooting over students, that killed four students, actually, who were protesting the war on Vietnam in the '70s, and they faced backlash back then.

[1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=96) Billie Holiday faced intense institutional backlash after singing Strange Fruit that exposed racism and lynching.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=102) Hundreds of other artists who we may not know their names, they were bullied and boycotted just over bringing up the voices of the oppressed. Macklemore made him call in 2024 in solidarity with the college campus protests to end the genocide in Palestine and, uh, delivered, um, an

[2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=121) on-stage free Palestine speech several times, which was literally something everyone must be doing, especially after killing twenty-one thousand children in Gaza by lunatics who are still living peacefully among us.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=134) But despite that, a billionaire stadium owner, Robert Kraft, who said, quote, "There is nothing I'm passionate about after my family more than the State of Israel," pressured the promoters and organized an ultimatum against Ed Sheeran to remove Macklemore, and it worked. What a strange world we are allowing to

[2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=153) continue, where a person can be punished over saying that freedom is a right and killing is forbidden.

[2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=158) Look at all of these people who are trying to prevent us from seeing truth and free Palestine. That's it.

[2:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1TkdEZTaU2dL/en/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-backlash-against-palestine-activism?t=166) Khalas ni, ‘am.