Voices across Hollywood and Washington are speaking out after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage.
\n\n“Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, one of TV’s most politically outspoken stars, wrote on her Instagram stories on Tuesday, “Ed Sheeran i say this as a ginger. i hope you get a REALLY bad sun burn. the kind on the back of your entire body where it hurts to lie down or walk or sit.”
\n\nYouTuber and children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel also took to Instagram to call out Sheeran. She wrote on Monday, “Ed Sheeran had an opportunity [to] show that we won’t be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.”
\n\nShe added, “If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral.”
\n\n“Wicked” star Marissa Bode, who is in a wheelchair, said in a TikTok video, “Ed Sheeran, my…
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