To feel sorry for Ed Sheeran.....

Arafat and his chums were expelled from Jordan for attempting a coup against the King. They then went to Lebanon and started a civil war with the Christian majority. Egypt has a big wall to keep them out. They were expelled from Kuwait in the nineties for supporting Saddam Hussein. That's the history of the Palestinians in a nutshell.

You haven't answered either of my questions mids.
No one was talking about whether stars may or may not be forthcoming in their political views. That's not what you said before. Please look at your post and my response again.
You have also been asked twice to qualify what you mean by Macklemore's antisemitic rants. Again, no response.

Surely you can't be serious, both about calling the other poster thick and then also saying that you haven't heard anybody calling to free the Iranian people from the IRGC. This was said all over the place, including on here. There were lots of daft comments on here about freeing Iranian women when the US and Israel first started the war on Iran. Although, the two situations are, of course, completely different.

You keep saying children were not the target but you don't know that. IDF soldiers have given testimonies that at times there were invisible lines, and anyone who crossed that line could be shot and killed. That includes children.

No sympathy for Ed. He is a disgrace siding with wealthy promotors over his own friend to start off with, they have been friends for 13 years at least. Ed is a coward! The UN has stated it is a genocide so Macklemore was just declaring facts. Also when we look back in history we are always asking why didn’t people stand up and say something? Well now they are. Let’s get Macklemores single to number 1 on the iTunes chart! Adding onto this to those people that say music shouldn’t be political it always has been about messages for the people. Also actually go and listen to the speech because he said NOTHING against Jewish people he was standing up for all of humanity that is being oppressed at the moment. Ed can crawl away he is spineless.

Surely you can't be serious, both about calling the other poster thick and then also saying that you haven't heard anybody calling to free the Iranian people from the IRGC. This was said all over the place, including on here. There were lots of daft comments on here about freeing Iranian women when the US and Israel first started the war on Iran. Although, the two situations are, of course, completely different.

You hide your tunnels and other terrorist shit in hospitals and schools, what do you think is going to happen.

There have been videos showing how the kids are so indoctrinated, they pick up arms for Hamas.

I thought it was a well known fact that Hamas don't give a shit about Palestinians and use them as human shields, whilst the leaders hideaway in their marble and gold mansions far far away.

You've already been told why people don't want to engage with you, that doesn't change just because you keep going on about it.

No the UN as an organisation has not stated it is a genocide, they know that only an international court case can determine that. What you are referring to are the conclusions of one UN commission of enquiry, not the UN as a whole.

BBC article dated September 2025

The UN says it cannot make a legal determination as to whether a situation constitutes genocide under international law. It says a situation is referred to as genocide only after a competent national or international court has declared it as such.

When asked by journalists on Tuesday if he would consider using the word genocide to describe Israel's actions in Gaza, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said: "It's for the court to decide whether it's genocide or not, and we see the evidence mounting."

Macklemore was stating his opinion, not fact.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go

She won’t have a response. She’s a very prominent poster on the topic and is very much of the viewpoint that supporting the Palestinians means you’re a terrorist lover, anti semitic and determined to see the end of Israel. Never really been able to explain the atrocities carried out by Israel and very rarely posts about it.

Palestine protests have been going on weekly since October 7th. There’s been one or two places where there’s been demonstrations about Iran and some of the other conflicts - absolutely NOTHING on the scale of the Palestine protests, as you well know.

At Glastonbury they were all chanting Free Free Palestine and there was that rapper chanting about Palestine and the IDF. Nothing about Iran or Sudan etc.

I dont actually believe a lot of the people protesting about Gaza, really care, they’re just acting like sheep and following the latest bandwagon.

And you say that Israel and the US started the war in Iran. Iran is a repressed nation. The people have been out on the streets demonstrating and getting shot by IRGC. What level of desperation drives a person to do that, knowing full well they could end up being killed? 3 young men were executed recently for taking part in the protests, one of whom reportedly died from a heart attack just before his execution. I can’t fathom why people are so silent about this. The disparity is astonishing.

No the UN as an organisation has not stated it is a genocide, they know that only an international court case can determine that. What you are referring to are the conclusions of one UN commission of enquiry, not the UN as a whole.

BBC article dated September 2025

The UN says it cannot make a legal determination as to whether a situation constitutes genocide under international law. It says a situation is referred to as genocide only after a competent national or international court has declared it as such.

When asked by journalists on Tuesday if he would consider using the word genocide to describe Israel's actions in Gaza, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said: "It's for the court to decide whether it's genocide or not, and we see the evidence mounting."

Macklemore was stating his opinion, not fact.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go

There have been no protests in my city over Iran. No matches, no flags, no chants.

As @mids2019 said. It does remind me of the trans cancelling/abuse thing. It is not trendy at all to be a zionist.

Unfortunately some groups who proclaim they are tolerant and liberal only seem to be so if you agree with what they say. Otherwise they are vitriolic and violent and downright scare people into silence.

Politics should be left out of entertainment. Let people just enjoy themselves for a bit. Lawd knows we need it.

My apologies from the UN Commissioned enquiry.
Published
23 June 2026
A UN commission of inquiry says Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
A new report alleges that Israeli authorities and security forces have "deliberately carried out acts inflicting death and severe bodily and mental harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children", and that the killings continued even after last October's ceasefire in Gaza.
The commission says it has reasonable grounds to conclude that those acts "form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

Doesn’t change anything because Ed Sheeran is still a coward and I understand why people may be scared to speak out but he has money and power. The abuse of power and wealth is literally on TV. At the end of the day I can’t go to my grave knowing that I didn’t speak out while millions of children are being killed while they are picking up food and water that has been sent in to help them. Just read some of the doctors accounts that have been there, they are the true heroes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2o

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/gaza-doctors-testimonies

My apologies from the UN Commissioned enquiry.
Published
23 June 2026
A UN commission of inquiry says Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
A new report alleges that Israeli authorities and security forces have "deliberately carried out acts inflicting death and severe bodily and mental harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children", and that the killings continued even after last October's ceasefire in Gaza.
The commission says it has reasonable grounds to conclude that those acts "form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

Doesn’t change anything because Ed Sheeran is still a coward and I understand why people may be scared to speak out but he has money and power. The abuse of power and wealth is literally on TV. At the end of the day I can’t go to my grave knowing that I didn’t speak out while millions of children are being killed while they are picking up food and water that has been sent in to help them. Just read some of the doctors accounts that have been there, they are the true heroes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2o

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/gaza-doctors-testimonies

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Why is he a coward?

Do you think its somehow uniquely brave to shout Free Palestine? Everyone is doing it these days haven't you noticed? It's an ingroup signal. If you don't signal your part in the group, you are morally disgusting.

I think its more brave to hold one's own council in order to not offend either side? Perhaps he's neutral? Perhaps he supports Israel?

He's famous, and thus made a pact with the devil, everyone thinks they own him, everyone thinks they have a right to know his opinions.

I don't feel sorry for him. He chose fame.

My apologies from the UN Commissioned enquiry.
Published
23 June 2026
A UN commission of inquiry says Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
A new report alleges that Israeli authorities and security forces have "deliberately carried out acts inflicting death and severe bodily and mental harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children", and that the killings continued even after last October's ceasefire in Gaza.
The commission says it has reasonable grounds to conclude that those acts "form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

Doesn’t change anything because Ed Sheeran is still a coward and I understand why people may be scared to speak out but he has money and power. The abuse of power and wealth is literally on TV. At the end of the day I can’t go to my grave knowing that I didn’t speak out while millions of children are being killed while they are picking up food and water that has been sent in to help them. Just read some of the doctors accounts that have been there, they are the true heroes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2o

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/gaza-doctors-testimonies

Yeah he is super brave to do what a billionaire told him and then pass the buck to the promoters.

I do wonder what he thinks he isn't complicit in though. That means that he knows something wrong or harmful has happened and he feels that he isn't responsible for it. Was it the firing of Macklemore that he thinks is wrong or the mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians?

So you were wrong but won't admit it. Got it.
Yes, the US and Israel started the war on Iran with no thought for the consequences.

This isn't about your city.
What the pp said was incorrect.
I'm sure some do proclaim themselves to be tolerant and liberal only if you agree with them. I've seen some of that from certain posters on here. They are the ones who regularly start Islamophobic threads/make Islamophobic comments but then call others antisemitic when they criticise Israel, in an attempt to scare people into silence.
I can't see anything wrong with entertainers making political statements. It's a matter for the individual surely.

Absolutely a matter for the individual.
Mural in Gaza City yesterday painted on the ruins of buildings♥️

If making political statements is a matter for the individual (which I agree with, so long as they limit political statements to their own gigs),why is Ed Sheeran getting so much flack for his choice not to make one?

Is he? I thought he was getting flack for bowing to Billionaires and allowing his long time friend to be fired and silenced?

There have been no protests in my city over Iran. No matches, no flags, no chants.

As @mids2019 said. It does remind me of the trans cancelling/abuse thing. It is not trendy at all to be a zionist.

Unfortunately some groups who proclaim they are tolerant and liberal only seem to be so if you agree with what they say. Otherwise they are vitriolic and violent and downright scare people into silence.

Politics should be left out of entertainment. Let people just enjoy themselves for a bit. Lawd knows we need it.