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[-] caboose2006@lemmy.world 3 points 31 minutes ago

When this whole drama broke like 1 or 2 days ago, reading the headlines, I was afraid I'd have to stop listening and supporting Macklemore. The headlines were vague. I'm so happy and artist I love is not a Zionist asshole

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 57 minutes ago

I'm an old man who had no idea who Macklemore was until this week. This guy is fucking cool.

[-] caboose2006@lemmy.world 4 points 29 minutes ago

Yes he is. I'm from Seattle so I have a little bit of a headstart on you. But his music is not only catchy but a love letter to the city and state that birthed him. Washington state is beautiful and he really captures that.

[-] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 hour ago

I find it funny that on all these Ed and Macklemore posts there's exactly 1 downvote on all the comments.

Somebody's salty. I can almost see their expression as they go through every comment downvoting with full on "I'll show them all" Nerd Rage coursing through their body.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 hours ago

From further down in the article:

Pink wrote that she was not trying to get any artist fired or silence anyone but that she took issue with Macklemore’s putting “violent images” of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza up in a stadium filled with families, then telling Jews in the audience that “it wasn’t about them.”

She's mad that Macklemore put up pictures of the shit that the Israeli military did? But she takes no issue with what the military itself did?

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 54 minutes ago

But she takes no issue with what the military itself did?

That's not what she said?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 74 points 5 hours ago
[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

God I love to see people centering the need for the liberation for the oppressed rather than any of the other shit, fucking well written statement.

[-] dudeface@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

This sounds good to me

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 127 points 7 hours ago
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[-] protist@retrofed.com 2 points 32 minutes ago

He wears your grandad's clothes, and he looks incredible

[-] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 21 points 3 hours ago

Robert Kraft smells like R. Kelly's sheets... Pissssssssssssss...

[-] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 90 points 7 hours ago

Worth noting that Macklemore knows Kraft won’t match it. Makes it even more of a boss move.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 84 points 6 hours ago

I did not expect it, but he did match it.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/16/robert-kraft-doubles-macklemore-palestine-donation/

Lets not forget that Robert Kraft is in the Epstein files

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

"brought young Palestinians and Israelis together to build businesses, create jobs, and forge relationships" sounds like some Supply-side Jesus bullshit way of saying "I made a fuckton of money in Israel and even deigned to hire some Palestinians to do it"

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 hours ago

Kraft donated to "support the region". Doesn't say anything specifically about Palestine. Dude probably wrote a $2 million check to Netenyahu.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Settlements in Palestine need investments, the way he describes his donations reeks of dishonesty. "supported efforts to create opportunity for Palestinians" Opportunities aren't food or shelter or aid.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

He doubled it and apparently said he was matching Ed Sheeran's donation, not Mackelmore's.

[-] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 52 points 6 hours ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess I was wrong.

So… this only makes me more confused, though. He shuts down Macklemore because he doesn’t want Macklemore saying “Free Palestine” in his stadium, and then turns around and supports Palestinian causes?

Christ, I must be missing something here.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

His PR team specifically chose the words "support the region" and ended the sentence with "I have supported efforts that create opportunity for Palestinians and have brought young Palestinians and Israelis together to build businesses, create jobs"

For example, financing bulldozing a Palestinian village, building an illegal settlement of terrorists, then hiring some Palestinians for pennies to clean the gardens, can technically match the statement

The Israeli Gaza "humanitarian" foundation let thousands of people die of starvation, also. Any donation to the ghf technically counted as Palestine aid, but it's like if during WW2 there was a fundraising for food in Auschwitz

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's just PR bro. Trying to save face after the fact.

That 1 million (from each) will be tax deductible and not cost either of them anything (as long as they both earn at least a million this year, which they will).

It's also only a limited number of charities that are official enough to take such a sum, meaning the money will get shunted through approved US channels (so that it stays out of the hands of "Hamas" or whatever the US and Israel see as Hamas today).

[-] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 57 points 6 hours ago

Boils down to Robert Kraft did not expect the PR shit show that started because he kicked Macklemore out. This blew up super fucking fast and well outside of the control of what they expected. Ed Sheeran is scrambling too.

This looks really bad. Even Jesse Walters from Fox News is like, "he kicked him out for saying free Palestine?" He then went on to defend Robert Kraft, claiming he can kick him out for whatever reason, but even he seemed incredulous about the reason that Macklemore was kicked out.

Robert Kraft does not want this to continue to blow up because if every fucking artist besides a few of them suddenly start refusing to go to his stadium, that's gonna look bad. This gives him an out, saying, well, I donated two million dollars after the fact So it doesn't look like he's directly supporting genocide.

It's obvious to those of us who pay attention, but to anybody who's not familiar with Robert Kraft, this potentially creates an out. It all about the pr message.

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[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

$2 million for a gesture probably doesn't matter much to him.

Especially when his actions point to him being a Zionist, the question becomes how much money has Kraft spent furthering Zionist ideals in comparison? Does it make $2 million USD look like a joke?

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 36 points 6 hours ago

One of the last lines of the article

Kraft later confirmed he didn't want Macklemore performing at Gillette, which Kraft owns ... accusing the rapper of crossing the line with antisemitic rhetoric and imagery.

I find it hard to believe that Maklemore uses antisemitic rhetoric and imagery (I'm willing to change this opinion with evidence). I would believe he uses Anti-Israeli rhetoric and imagery.

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 16 points 4 hours ago

Good! This leaves MORE Room for Noted Jew Lover Kanye West to play "Heil Hitler" at Kraft's stadiums AGAIN!

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[-] dudeface@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Seems like a nice chap that I can align with, definitely shouldn’t be kicked off Zionist sympathisers tours for being level headed

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 46 points 7 hours ago

Robert Kraft is just going to donate $1 million to sex trafficking

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