Ed Sheeran's Controversial Comments on Israel

Ed Sheeran says he doesn't take sides.

That can't be the truth. He chose the side of the Epstein

class over humanity. Ed Sheeran told Macklemore

that Free Palestine and the image of the Palestinian flag

were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with.

The main person Ed Sheeran spoke to was the fanatical

Zionist billionaire, Robert Kraft.

After my family, there's nothing I'm more

passionate about than the state of Israel and my Jewish

identity.

Kraft features in the Epstein files, and previously

paid Ed to perform at his wedding. Kraft told Ed

Sheeran that Macklemore is banned from the Gillette Stadium,

which Kraft owns and runs a massive Zionist surveillance

and propaganda center from.

Inside the Patriots stadium, a command center of stats

tracking hate speech online. It shows where it's coming from,

the time of day, and how it's trending, especially among younger

people.

The irony, of course, is that Robert Kraft publicly

lauded Israel as a bastion of free speech.

I've personally made over 100 trips to our homeland, and

as every Israeli knows, including my friend,

the Prime Minister, it's a bastion of free speech.

While in America, he does the exact opposite,

trying to crush your free speech on Palestine.

Kraft donates hundreds of millions of dollars to pro-Israel

lobby groups, and was even given a $1 million award

from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Robert Kraft fights back, and he's committed to

fight BDS, and to fight the slanders against Israel,

and to

stand up with the state of Israel. A terrific champion of Israel, and

someone that I am deeply proud to call

my friend.

Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, not only for your

kind words, but for your decades of leadership,

but especially what you do for this state of

Israel.

One of Kraft's most rewarding experiences has been

ferrying sports stars to Israel for

propaganda tours.

27 missions that I've been privileged to lead to Israel.

This week, we have 15 current and former

New England Patriot players. I'd like to ask them to

please stand with their significant others and be

recognized.

Kraft isn't just any NFL owner. He is a key political

asset in Israel's influence matrix.

His name actually appears on Benjamin Netanyahu's

handwritten 2007 list of millionaires, a leak

revealing individuals considered to be funders for

Netanyahu's political rise. Inside Gillette Stadium itself,

Kraft doesn't just host football, he runs a high-tech command

center that monitors social media in real time,

tracking and flagging content critical of Israel and

Zionism under the banner of fighting anti-Semitism.

Beyond his sports empire, Kraft sat on the board of

Apollo Global alongside Leon Black, Jeffrey Epstein's

primary financial vault for a decade.

Kraft himself appears in the Epstein flight logs, while

Black was named in the Epstein files after being accused

in federal lawsuits of horrific sexual violence,

including the rape of a disabled minor inside

Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. This is the same Leon Black

who served as a primary donor and top funder to

current Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.

According to Macklemore, Kraft personally contacted Sheeran

to tell him Macklemore would never be allowed to step foot on

stage at the Gillette Stadium. Kraft then organized a

coalition of fellow stadium owners to issue an

absolute ultimatum, "Drop the opener or lose the venues."

Kraft was joined by a broader syndicate of pro-military

NFL oligarchs who use their control over public

arenas to enforce political censorship.

Look at Arthur Blank of the Atlanta Falcons, who controls

Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Blank is a major financial

backer of the joint Nefesh B'Nefesh Friends of the IDF

Lone Soldiers program, which subsidizes foreign fighters

moving to Israel to join the Israeli military, a

military Blank's own family actively serves in.

Look at David Tepper of the Carolina Panthers, owner of

the Bank of America Stadium, who personally frequents

elite galas to bankroll the Friends of the IDF charity.

And look at the Glazer family, owners of the Tampa Bay

Buccaneers and the Raymond James Stadium, close

personal friends of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud

Barak. The Glazers fund initiatives to help

Israeli

combat veterans, and crucially, family member Dan

Glazer serves directly on the committee of the Friends of the

IDF, actively steering organizational support

and financial pipelines directly to the Israeli military

apparatus. Consider the double standard.

Kanye West, who released the track literally titled

Hail, is currently allowed to book and tour major US

venues without issue. The evolution of

anti-Semitism will be studied for decades to

come. In fact, Kanye West is actually scheduled to

perform at the exact- Same stadium venues,

including SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Raymond

James Stadium in Tampa, where the billionaire team owners

actively moved to ban and cancel Macklemore.

But is Ed Sheeran actually apolitical?

I just want to say to all Ukrainians that I love you, I stand with you,

and I'm so

proud to be playing this fundraising event next week.

He raised millions through United24, a charity

initiative where 95% of the funds are funneled

directly into the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

And let's be clear, death, injury, and statistics with

regards to civilians and children bear no comparison.

Palestine and Gaza are fundamentally worse

in every single metric. The selective morality of pop

culture is staggering. Behind the venues stands the

record industry itself, exerting its own immense

institutional weight. Ed Sheeran is set to sign a

massive deal with Universal Music Group.

Follow the executive roster at Universal.

Lucian Grainge, CEO of Universal, has been

pictured repeatedly at fundraisers for the friends of the IDF.

Then there is Haim Saban, a UMG director who is a

former Israeli soldier and the largest fundraiser

for the friends of the IDF in history.

Saban famously declared, "I'm a one-issue guy, and my

issue is Israel." Ed Sheeran was crushed under

the immense financial and political weight of an elite

cartel of billionaires, stadium owners, lobby

groups, and record executives who run the global

entertainment complex. When taking an apolitical

stance means capitulating to institutional

blackmail and maintaining the status quo for an ongoing

genocide, silence is complicity.

And when Free Palestine becomes too dangerous to say on stage, the

stage itself becomes an act of resistance.

From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley to Rage Against the Machine to

Public Enemy, music, art, and politics have

always entwined, often on the side of the

oppressed and marginalized. The idea they should be

separate is a political invention by billionaires

to benefit billionaires. I have known Ed Sheeran for over

20 years. He is one of the most talented human

beings I have ever

known, but he has been led astray in this case.

Once upon a time, Ed tweeted in support of my album,

Soundtrack for the

Struggle, which went on to break into the national

charts.

That album included the song Long Live Palestine.

Ed Sheeran has more power than he knows, and many years ago,

he published a song in which he used the words, "You need me.

I don't need you." Now is the time for Ed Sheeran

to say that clearly to these Zionist overlords.

They need you, Ed. You don't need them.

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