Macklemore is accusing some of America’s most iconic arenas of shutting his “Free Palestine” tour out.
\n\nThe rapper, who recently had dates in Dublin, Paris and London at the end of October, took to Instagram on Nov. 6 to say that he has been turned down by American venues, including New York City’s Madison Square Garden, New Jersey’s Prudential Center, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Long Island’s UBS Arena, L.A.’s Intuit Dome, Kia Forum and Crypto.com Arena, San Francisco’s Chase Center and Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena.
\n\n“By mid-September, we received available dates at these arenas through the end of the year,” he said in the Instagram post. “But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, those dates were suddenly off the table. The doors were closed. The conversations were all different, but the result was the same. The shows were not going to be allowed to happen in these venues.”
\n\n“In over 20 years of touring, I’ve never experienced anything like this,” he also wrote. “I’d rather lose every opportunity in this industry than spend another day protecting people who value their business relationships with Israel more than they value Palestinian human life.”
\n\n“We live in a country…
Original source: https://variety.com/