Macklemore to Donate $1 Million Ed Sheeran Tour Earnings to Palestine Aid, Invites Robert Kraft to Match Him

Macklemore e Ed Sheeran em 2014 (Getty Images) Carregador de Comentários Salvar História Salvar esta história Carregador de Comentários Salvar História Salvar esta história Este artigo foi atualizado com uma nova declaração de Robert Kraft.

The Ben artist also invited New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft to match his donation, which will be split between HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, American Near East Refugee Aid, Medical Aid for Palestinians, and the UNRWA U.

S. A. National Committee. Macklemore has accused Kraft of pressuring Sheeran into removing him from the tour by threatening to pull his shows at Gillette otherwise, and encouraging other venue owners to do the same.

In a prior statement to NBC News, Kraft confirmed he was involved in kicking Macklemore off the tour. “Based on Macklemore’s recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply hurtful offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line,” he wrote.

Sheeran detalhou sua própria versão dos acontecimentos em sua própria declaração, alegando que a decisão de expulsar Macklemore do tour “foi a decisão do promotor, não a minha”.

I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don't have them, and it doesn’t mean I don’t care.”.

Since Macklemore announced his removal from the run, the remaining three opening acts on the tour—Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Rowe—and Sheeran’s backing band, Beoga, have all pulled out in solidarity.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)—a founding organization involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) initiative—has also called on Sheeran to cancel his tour completely.

Por favor, envie os textos completos das declarações de Macklemore e Robert Kraft para que eu possa traduzi-los.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.

E convido Robert Kraft a igualar minha doação. Seja qual for a nossa discordância, talvez possamos concordar com isto: vidas palestinas merecem proteção. Uma vida palestina não é menos valiosa do que qualquer outra vida neste planeta.

That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity, and safety in their own homeland.

I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in.

I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.

Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child.

Both were murdered. Both should be alive.

And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them.

Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.

That is where my focus will remain. I will continue to stand with the Palestinian people and their fight for liberation.

When the news cycle moves on, which it will, don’t move with it.

Ed now plans to reach out to other venue owners and our goal is to continue to work together to build bridges.

In addition, I'd like the people who are speaking in support of the Palestinian people to know that for decades, I have supported efforts that create opportunity for Palestinians and have brought young Palestinians and Israelis together to build businesses, create jobs, and forge relationships.