Rapper Macklemore is a vocal supporter of Palestine and Gaza residents. During a recent concert at MetLife Stadium, he yelled “Free Palestine!” onstage, projected images of devastation in the area, and performed protest song “Hind’s Hall.”
Now, it seems that American venues are not willing to play ball with the Seattle artist, and he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour.
“After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates,” according to Messina Touring Group, the promoter of Loop Tour. This news follows backlash from organizations like StopAntisemitism and others, such as pop star Pink.
Jesus was a Palestinian.
That’s… so complicated it’s not even worth categorizing.
Are we talking about historical Palestinian or modern Palestinian? How do you define Palestinian historically anyway? The area he was born in was Judea. He was of Jewish faith, but wasn’t happy with parts of it. But Judaism was practiced among historic Palestinians too. And not everyone in Judea was of the Jewish faith. And so on.
People moved around. Different groups merged and split.
What I can tell you is that if Jesus did exist for real and if he taught what he’s said to have been taught, he’d be fucking appalled at what Israel’s doing and would be advocating for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Of course the sources about his life are largely from long after his death, many conflicting. Who knows if he existed for real?
Aren’t modern Palestinians quite closely related to the people who used to live in historical Palestine 2000 years ago?
Well yes and so are Israelis since Jews in exile have historically kept themselves a bit isolated from other groups, but Palestinians (or their predecessors) and Judeans intermingled more in the olden times than Palestinians and Israelis do now. If you go back further than Jesus’ era, they share common ancestry. The distinction has grown bigger over time.
Additionally, historic Palestine was mostly Jewish before Islam took hold. So there were fewer cultural differences back then too. Even now, there are Jews (both religion and ethnicity) in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims (largely overlapping) in Israel, with many of those Arabs being Palestinian Arabs.
Makes the whole conflict look even more stupid, doesn’t it?
Was he not a jew also?
Two things can be true.
He was also an immigrant.
And a hell of a bowler!
Master of hide and seek, never been found!
Eight-year-olds, Dude.