Ed Sheeran and Celebrity Activism

Ed Sheeran, you were not perfect tonight.

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.

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.

Ya ‘am,

el ‘ud wayn? Dawwart ‘alayh fi kull makan.

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.

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.

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

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.

Billie Holiday faced intense institutional backlash after singing

Strange Fruit that exposed racism and lynching.

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

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.

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

continue, where a person can be punished over saying

that freedom is a right and

killing is forbidden.

Look at all of these people who are trying to prevent us from seeing truth

and free

Palestine. That's it.

Khalas ni, ‘am.