“Primarily based on Macklemore’s current actions, materials shared from the stage throughout Ed Sheeran’s exhibits in New Jersey, and a broader historical past of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we consider has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish neighborhood, we decided that his participation within the September twenty fifth and twenty sixth live shows at Gillette Stadium would cross that line,” he continued, including that his choice was “not about diminishing the struggling of harmless Palestinians or denying anybody the correct to advocate on their behalf.”



