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Death, death to the ZOF!
Death, death to the ZOF!
It's been a decade since I've seen him live, but he does a really good show.
If I could spare the resources I'd go, so awesome of him to help rather than condone.
Is he helping or cashing in?
Either way he's being a very public and vocal supporter of Palestine. This is a good thing and we need more of it.
From the article:
"Macklemore said all proceeds from the concerts will benefit organizations “supporting the Palestinian people and movement.”
I have no idea, he comes off as pretty sincere but you never know.
I wondered as well. But in any case he came out against the biggest bullies in the world, so I think helping even if he's cashing in while doing it.
Due to the layout of this headline on my phone screen, my first thought was, "Macklemore is gonna do free concerts in Palestine? Like, Gaza? Sounds dangerous."
Israel would snipe him out 100%. No question. He's not even US I think he's canadian, not that the israelis give a fuck about killing americans. But they would care even less about canada, every authoritarian government loves to pick on canada anyway. Because the US hasn't been backing them up so much since 2016.
I'm not a rap guy but I downloaded a number of his songs after the raucous, Hind's Hall is pretty good. The other songs are all right too.
I've never listened to him before gave him a try (thanks, Sheeran). I like someone who doesn't take themself too seriously.
I especially liked Thrift Shop.
I don't listen to this guy or this style of music in general but I'd be willing to maybe think about buying tickets to this if it rolled into my town.
I wonder if his London show will go ahead. Also, he missed a trick not adding any shows in Spain.
I'm thinking that he deliberately chose one city that's pretty much guaranteed to welcome him and his message with open arms (Dublin), one that has a shitload of zionists AND uncowed anti-zionists so it could go either way (Paris), and one of the main zionism-enforcing and free speech-suppressing cities of the world (London)
Dublin's gonna be a great time for everyone involved, and the other two are probably going to further the cause by generating the right headlines.
I think London will put even more pressure on the British Government since the Public Opinion over there is pretty much on the opposite side of Her Majesty's Government and most of the rest of the political class on this (the latter are unwavering supporters of Israel and their Genocide, to the point of using the kind of powers used in Dictatorships to push back on criticism of it, such as having critics of Israel and its Genocide arrested as "Supporters of Terrorism", so worse even than the "crimes" Putin in Russia created to deal with his critics).
This tour has been spun up in a jiffy, it's about contacts and which venues his promoters know
Paris is in the Schengen zone, and Germany could preemptively ban him from entering, under the Staatsräson.
I just love that Kraft's active actions in support of the XXI century version of the NAZIs and their Genocide has ended up snowballing into extra awareness of and attention on the plight of their victims, mainly the Palestinians.
Also love how Ed Sheeran has been outed as yet another tactical tacit supporter of that Genocide (in the style of American and British Liberals - not openly supporting but rather by being accomplices in the shutting down of criticism of it) - it's like a large stone was turned over and we now see all the creepy-crawlers scurrying.
It would be so funny if the line up consist of:
Aaron Rowe, Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Beoga (all were opening acts or supportive bands in the Ed Sheeran Tour)
Edit: Added artists names. in the original comment I just use the term Ed Sheeran acts.
Alison Morissette would be so proud if Macklemore's tour would destroy baby Sheeren's in ticket sales.
Oops.. I read that headline twice as a tour of Palestine that was free, rather than a ""Free Palestine" tour.

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