{"id":814759,"date":"2026-10-26T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:02:16","slug":"rapper-macklemore-begins-free-palestine-tour-after-ed-sheeran-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814759\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Macklemore begins Free Palestine tour after Ed Sheeran fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macklemore has begun his Free Palestine tour in Dublin after Ed Sheeran’s controversial decision to drop the rapper from his tour last month.<\/p>\n

The American star is playing to a crowd of up to 13,000 at the city’s 3Arena – and, hours before the sell-crowd show, had promised “many incredible surprise guests”.<\/p>\n

The artist – whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty – announced the tour days after being dropped from Sheeran’s Loop Tour following pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage.<\/p>\n

He was criticised by Jewish groups after saying “Free Palestine” at two concerts and making political speeches, including referring to the death toll from Israel’s military action in Gaza as a genocide – a claim that Israel rejects.<\/p>\n

Sheeran later stressed that the decision to drop Macklemore was made by his promoter<\/a>, not by himself.<\/p>\n

Macklemore has said that proceeds from his Free Palestine tour will go to organisations supporting Palestinians.<\/p>\n

He will perform in Paris on Thursday and in London on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an unprecedented Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

During Israel’s military campaign in Gaza more than 70,000 people have been killed, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.<\/p>\n

Israel says its troops conduct self-defence operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in accordance with international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklemore has begun his Free Palestine tour in Dublin after Ed Sheeran’s controversial decision to drop the rapper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}