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.
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?
Palestinians are much more semitic than Israelis, which is why Israelis keep genetic ancestry testing (that one test specifically, while other genetic tests are permitted) a state secret and it takes a court order and a careful secrecy around results to get tested there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_IZSSS2V-M
Except for a handful of actually real semitic people, Israelis are mostly eastern Europeans and Russians stealing land and cosplaying to do it. They even resurrected hebrew, a language that had been dead and forgotten for 2000 years as part of that cosplay. They had to completely make up a bunch of words and grammar to do this.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/hebrew-wasnt-spoken-for-2000-years-heres-how-it-was-revived
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?
so it just… took hold? Sort of organically? By “Islam took hold” you are glossing over an anti-roman/anti-greek genocide, and arrival of what they claimed was their end-of-days messiah (Simon Bar Kokhba), which started the 3 Roman-Jewish wars, and then the counter-genocide the romans launched which destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, scattered the jewish faith, changed it from a temple sacrifice based religion to a decentralize rabbinic one. After which the hebrew language disappeared for 2000 years, and was only very recently recreated and resurrected from fragments of purely written word. I think that history is worth mentioning. Those 3 wars depopulated much of the SE Mediterranean and were an important part of the history of the region that is still echoing today. If we forget history we encourage people to just create whatever stories serve their modern politics. Thats not healthy. We all deserve the truth.
There was no mass displacement of Jews when Arabs conquered it meaning a large numbers of palestinians are simply Israelites and Jews that was arabized and islamized. Also the land was inhabited way before Israelites ever existed