I get where Ed Sheeran is coming from… but not where he ended up.

I can see not wanting to get involved in politics and wanting to appeal to people on both sides of issues.

However, when one side just wants to live in peace and the other side wants all of them killed for having dark skin and praying differently, that becomes a huge problem. Not bring opposed to that is a huge problem.

Part of the issue is, the people (Israel) doing this, had this done to them 80 years ago. That’s why they exist there to do it now. The US didn’t want them. The EU didn’t want them. So they hoisted them upon the Middle East and said “not our problem”. Now, Israel is quick to point out that anyone who opposes the genocide they’re doing supports the one done to them in the past. And most reasonable people agree that is a very, very bad thing. But they don’t all agree that the same emphasis should be placed on the current genocide. P!nk says it’s justified. Boy George says it’s just war and both sides are equally complicit. Apple doesn’t want people talking about it all, and they’ve flagged the word ‘genocide’ as profanity in their software, and you can only type it one letter at a time. You can’t trace type it like you can unflagged words. (On an iPhone or iPad. A Mac won’t deter you.)

Unfortunately, it’s down to either supporting genocide or not. And if you want to be inclusive, you have to be against genocide. That’s how bad genocide is. Anything short of opposition is consent.