{"id":645818,"date":"2026-10-05T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645818\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:20:13","slug":"zach-bryan-wears-free-palestine-t-shirt-at-stadium-weeks-after-ed-sheeran-macklemore-tour-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645818\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan wears &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; T-shirt at stadium weeks after Ed Sheeran-Macklemore tour dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZACH BRYAN WORE a \u201cFree Palestine\u201d T-shirt when he played at a stadium owned by billionaire Robert Kraft, who has previously called such sentiments \u201churtful to the Jewish community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just weeks after Kraft asked Ed Sheeran to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-7162615-Sep2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remove Macklemore<\/a> as a support act from his Loop tour after the rapper said \u201cFree Palestine\u201d during a concert.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had been scheduled to play\u00a0Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, as part of the tour.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, country star Bryan expressed similar sentiments when he played the venue. He wore a\u00a0T-shirt that said \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and \u201can appeal to heaven\u201d, which is a phrase previously associated with the American War of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cbsboston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Boston<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Statement T-shirts were also worn by members of his band, including his drummer, who donned a jersey honouring Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli Defence Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Macklemore shared a photo of Bryan performing in the t-shirt on his Instagram story.<\/p>\n<p>Kraft has yet to make a public statement on it.<\/p>\n<p>He last month accused Macklemore of hate speech for saying \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and showing audiences footage of the suffering in Gaza during his shows on Sheeran\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n<p>Sheeran said he had no choice but to remove Macklemore from the line-up, as Kraft and other stadium owners had threatened to axe tour dates at their venues.<\/p>\n<p>All of Sheeran\u2019s other support acts, including Irish acts Beoga and Aaron Rowe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/ed-sheeran-macklemore-7163852-Sep2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulled out of the tour<\/a> in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan has become a country megastar, selling out shows around the world, including in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>His hits include Something in the Orange, and I Remember Everything, featuring Kacey Musgraves.<\/p>\n<p>More than 73,000 reportedly attended his shows at Gillette Stadium, breaking the venue\u2019s attendance record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans noticed that in an Instagram post on the stadium\u2019s account about the success of the shows, none of the photos are close enough to see the t-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZACH BRYAN WORE a \u201cFree Palestine\u201d T-shirt when he played at a stadium owned by billionaire Robert Kraft,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,158990,219833,61,60,264671,15863,278,266448,44731],"class_list":["post-645818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-free-palestine","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-macklemore","tag-massachusetts","tag-music","tag-robert-kraft","tag-zach-bryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}