"The moves by his fellow artists put enormous pressure on Sheeran, who has tried to avoid politics and taking a side in the Gaza conflict, arguing that his fans don't come to his shows to hear politics.
Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ouster and attributed the decision to the tour's promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.
Rowe and Lukas Graham would have been replacements for Macklemore on Sheeran's remaining U.S. dates, while Beoga had been performing several songs — including some the Irish folk band co-wrote — with Sheeran around the middle of each set. Finneas, who is Billie Eilish's brother and musical collaborator, was due to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," Finneas said on Instagram. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people."
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| UK Daily Mail . . . "So which is it, net contributors who 'build' New York and other cities, or an imported underclass? "Obviously, he hopes to conflate the immigrants of the late 19th century, who came from Southern and Eastern Europe and took no government aid, with today's third- and fourth-world welfare seekers who poured in during the Obama and Biden administrations. "Some of his lugubrious speech is here: Dead-eyed Commie Mamdani is trying to bankrupt America. You cannot import people into your country who drain your taxes. Normal countries do not allow immigrants to be dependent on taxpayer $$ without paying in first. This isn't cruel, it's just math. pic.twitter.com/gLleG87A7F
"In his romanticization of all migrants as one and the same, he ignored that the productive immigrants who came from Southern and Eastern Europe of the 19th and early 20th centuries had all been screened. Here's a sign of what the rules were on Ellis Island dating from 1882: . . ." |
