Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore over 'Free Palestine'
A decade-long friendship between two chart-toppers broke apart over two words said on a stadium stage.
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The openers who walked out on Ed Sheeran
Four acts quit Ed Sheeran's stadium tour within hours of Macklemore being pulled for saying "Free Palestine" on stage.
9 cards 2mRapaport cheers Macklemore tour exit
A fight over Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian remarks spilled into Ed Sheeran’s tour and drew a fierce response from Michael Rapaport.
6 cards 1m 20sEd Sheeran's openers quit his tour after Macklemore was dropped
Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe and the folk band Beoga all walked after stadium owners pushed Macklemore out over his Gaza comments.
9 cards 2m 5Ed Sheeran's tour loses every opener over Macklemore's removal
Finneas, Lukas Graham and others quit the Loop Tour after Macklemore was dropped for calling for a free Palestine.
7 cards 1m 40sEd Sheeran's tour keeps losing openers
Three acts have now walked off Ed Sheeran's Loop tour after Macklemore was cut for pro-Palestine comments onstage.
6 cards 1m 20sEd Sheeran's opener walks over Gaza
Aaron Rowe quit a tour that changed his life rather than stay quiet after Macklemore was dropped for saying Free Palestine.
8 cards 1m 50sEd Sheeran's opener quits over Palestine
Irish singer Aaron Rowe walked away from a North American arena tour after Macklemore was dropped for speaking on Palestine.
6 cards 1m 20sDearborn's mayor offers Macklemore a stage
Dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over a Gaza rant, Macklemore just got a free concert offer from an Arab-majority city.
6 cards 1m 20sEd Sheeran's opener quits over Macklemore
One rising Irish singer gave up the biggest stage of his career a week after another act was cut for the same stance.
6 cards 1m 10sMacklemore dropped, and the left pushes back
A 'Free Palestine' set at an Ed Sheeran show cost Macklemore eight tour dates, and Democrats piled on.
9 cards 2mMs. Rachel on Gaza, Fame, and What It Costs
The woman behind the pink headband has 20 million subscribers and a security detail, and she is not going quiet.
20 cards 4mWhy everyone has to root for Macklemore now
Robert Kraft allegedly got a rapper pulled off Ed Sheeran's tour for saying Free Palestine, and made him a free speech test case.
12 cards 3mKraft Bans Macklemore From Gillette
The Patriots owner says a "Free Palestine" speech crossed a line, and the rapper says that line is being used as a shield.
8 cards 1m 50sMacklemore: "The victims are the Palestinian people"
Dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over his Gaza politics, Macklemore refused to play the wronged star.
6 cards 1m 10sMacklemore breaks his silence on losing the Sheeran tour
Dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium run over a "Free Palestine" chant, Macklemore says he'd make the same call again.
9 cards 2mMacklemore says a stadium owner got him dropped
Macklemore lost the rest of Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour dates over a Palestine comment, and he says the ban came from outside the tour.
6 cards 1m 20sMacklemore says stadium owners forced him off Sheeran's tour
A rapper's onstage "Free Palestine" turned into an ultimatum that cost him a stadium tour.
10 cards 2mIsrael's culture minister wants two film-makers stripped of citizenship
A Venice prize for a Gaza documentary turned into a government call to revoke its Israeli directors' nationality.
7 cards 1m 50s 5Israel's culture minister targets 'NAZA' directors
A Venice prize-winner about civilian deaths in Gaza has Israel's culture minister calling for the filmmakers' citizenship.
6 cards 1m 20s 6A tent, a bullet, and a ceasefire that isn't
Iman Shalouf was eight months pregnant and sitting in her family's tent when Israeli gunfire found her.
8 cards 2mSpain weighs a test case on funding Gaza aid
A US heir who gave millions to pro-Palestinian causes sits in a Madrid jail while Spain's cabinet decides whether to hand him over.
11 cards 2mInside NAZA, where Israel's own officers describe Gaza
Two Israeli directors spent three years filming 24 military officers on Tel Aviv rooftops, describing how the machine that kills Gaza's civilians actually works.
20 cards 4mSixty more Palestinians lose their homes
UN monitors count demolitions in Masafer Yatta and a mounting toll on women running households alone in Gaza.
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