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. This video was brought to you by Double Down News, where we

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