{"id":869867,"date":"2026-10-03T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:08:10","slug":"zach-bryan-wears-free-palestine-shirt-at-gillette-stadium-concert-weeks-after-ed-sheeran-tour-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869867\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan wears \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 shirt at Gillette Stadium concert, weeks after Ed Sheeran tour uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a \u201cFree Palestine\u201d T-shirt during his concert at Gillette Stadium near Boston on Friday night, weeks after stadium\u2019s owner Robert Kraft was accused of pressuring Ed Sheeran to drop his opening act<\/a> over pro-Palestinian remarks.<\/p>\n

Videos across social media showed Bryan, 30, wearing a black cutoff T-shirt with \u201cFree Palestine\u201d in white letters during his tour stop at the stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots, is a staunch supporter of Israel.<\/p>\n

Last month, rapper Macklemore said he was removed from Sheeran\u2019s tour at Kraft\u2019s behest after he spoke out in support of Palestinians at the tour\u2019s shows in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Kraft did not immediately return a request for comment. He has said he did not want to stifle support for Palestinians but to ensure a \u201cwelcoming environment\u201d at Gillette Stadium for Sheeran\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n

Sheeran\u2019s other opening acts \u2014 Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham, Finneas and his house band, Beoga \u2014 withdrew from the tour in protest after Macklemore\u2019s removal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sheeran apologized for how he handled the matter in his first show since news broke of Macklemore\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never wanted to be an activist musician,\u201d Sheeran said, \u201cbut this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Macklemore announced<\/a> a Free Palestine Tour for this fall. Gillette Stadium will not be one of its stops.<\/p>\n

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a flashpoint in pop culture for decades.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war in Gaza has killed more than 70,000 people<\/a> there, according to local health authorities. It followed the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, in which more than 1,200 people were killed.<\/p>\n

Differences over the war have permeated everything from local political contests to the Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

Bryan is best known for his songs \u201cSomething in the Orange,\u201d \u201cI Remember Everything\u201d featuring Kacey Musgraves and \u201cPink Skies.\u201d The Grammy-winning artist served in the U.S. Navy for several years while continuing to write and record music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country singer Zach Bryan wore a \u201cFree Palestine\u201d T-shirt during his concert at Gillette Stadium near Boston on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-869867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}