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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTMacklemore Announces \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 TourThe rapper, who was pulled from Ed Sheeran\u2019s tour last week over his support for Palestinians, announced plans for three European dates.Listen \u00b7 3:55 min Share full articleMacklemore said that he had reached out to artists who have \u201cused their stages to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences,\u201d but did not announce acts who would join the tour.Credit...Anthony Anex\/Keystone, via Associated PressBy Ben SisarioPublished Sept. 24, 2026Updated Sept. 25, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Macklemore, the indie rapper who was kicked off Ed Sheeran\u2019s stadium tour over his pro-Palestine statement, and for accusing Israel of a genocide, has booked his own outing devoted to the cause.The Free Palestine Tour, which Macklemore announced on social media on Thursday, is to travel to Dublin, Paris and London in October. It is labeled \u201cMacklemore and Friends,\u201d and in a statement the rapper said he had \u201cspent the last week reaching out to artists who have shown up and used their stages to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences,\u201d though no additional names were announced.\u201cIf these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it\u2019s that something has shifted over the last three years,\u201d Macklemore said in his statement. \u201cThere has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now.\u201dThe controversy over Macklemore and the Sheeran tour has thrust the Israel-Hamas war into the pop music world.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMacklemore \u2014 whose songs \u201cThrift Shop\u201d and \u201cSame Love,\u201d released with his former producer Ryan Lewis, were indie phenoms in the early 2010s \u2014 came under intense criticism early this month after he said \u201cFree Palestine\u201d in his opening slots at two dates of Sheeran\u2019s tour at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. He also showed his music video for \u201cHind\u2019s Hall,\u201d a protest song against Israel\u2019s military response to the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which showed scenes of devastation in Gaza.Macklemore\u2019s accusation of genocide drew condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, which accused him of \u201cengaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior,\u201d and the Israeli-American Council, which circulated a petition calling on Sheeran to remove him from the tour.Robert Kraft, whose company owns the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium outside Boston, said that Macklemore\u2019s comments crossed a line into \u201chate speech\u201d and confirmed in a statement that he decided Macklemore could not play at Gillette. Last week, Sheeran said the decision to remove Macklemore was \u201cnot mine,\u201d adding that it had been made by his promoter and the venues that had booked the tour. Within hours of his statement, every other musician associated with his tour \u2014 including opening acts like Finneas and Beoga, an Irish folk group that backed Sheeran for part of his set \u2014 quit in solidarity with Macklemore, and expressed their support for the Palestinian cause.Critics of Macklemore also pointed to an episode from 2014 when Macklemore went onstage in a \u201cJewish caricature\u201d costume, with a hooked nose, hat and fake beard. He apologized for it at the time, saying, \u201cI respect all cultures and all people.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAfter facing what Sheeran called pressure to cancel his Loop Tour, he kept it on the road by himself. In Philadelphia last Saturday, the first show since the controversy erupted, Sheeran had no opening acts and \u2014 as he had on previous dates \u2014 performed most of the show entirely on his own, using guitar pedals to weave snippets of songs into full backing tracks, though he brought out a new group of musicians for a few tracks to replace Beoga.Before the show began, Sheeran acknowledged making \u201cmistakes\u201d in how he had handled the situation. \u201cI\u2019ve tried in my career to not be a political commentator of any kind because I want my music and shows to be about unity, not division, about humanity, not politics,\u201d Sheeran said.A spokeswoman for Macklemore said that artists for his tour, and future dates, including in the United States, would be announced soon.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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