Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and the politics of staying silent | BBC News

The man in charge of neutrality at the BBC was a conservative spin doctor, who helped save pro Isreal newspaper The Jewish Chronicle. There middle east editor is a fan of Netanyahu, who wrote a pro Mossad book and was given an award by Israel. Whistleblowers at the BBC, have complained about editorial interference, and pro Isreali bias, from both. The independent Media Monitoring group published a damning report into pro Isreal bias at the BBC, which found amongst other things, that the BBC, covered Isreali deaths 33 times more than Palestinian deaths.

Ed Sheeran didn’t even need to take a public stance in support of the Palestinian cause. He should, however, as a musician and an artist, hold a very firm stance on freedom of speech and artistic expression, and take exception to a billionaire not only threatening to cancel a show from taking place in their venue, but also that same billionaire rallying other venue owners to do the same. That is more disappointing than anything. He could have taken that stance without directly endorsing anything Macklemore had to say regarding geopolitical issues.

The important part is that the Zionist machinery that has propped up Ed&#39;s career have been exposed.<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23boycottedsheeran">#BoycottEdSheeran</a><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23endisraelapartheid">#EndIsraelApartheid</a><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23stopthegenocide">#StopTheGenocide</a>

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bbc always taking sides.....new editors urgently needed.... .topic should be &quot;should political statements at concerts be allowed ?&quot;....not this backlash of being forced to take a side (&quot;staying silent&quot; ?)......i don&#39;t care about the political views of an arquitect or a doctor, why should i care about the thoughts of a rapper ? .....although there are thousands of political prisoners in cuba, venezuela, i dont want this rapper making a statement about it at a concert.....maybe in a concert supporting those political prisoners, but not at a mariah carey gig

A real criticism - despite being in full (!!) support of the video/content/and all supportive comments: We all might be making 1 fatal mistake in this: Channel 4, please give this thought: The supporters of the genocide are yet undefeated, because in their eyes/&#39;&#39;minds&#39;&#39; &gt; everything after Oct 7th &gt; is justified by Oct 7. (!!!) Which is the missing piece we all (!!) simply are not delivering? This occupation, with countless genocidal acts, has already murdered countless people for 4 decades before Hamas even existed. Say it. - The supporters of the genocide still win and kill, because we don&#39;t (nobody yet does) strip them of the 7th Oct/Hamas justification narrative. - - Does this help?? - - - / Hamas were founded in the late 80s. The continued murder and terrorism against Palestinians had already been going on for over 4 decades at that time. (The State of Israel started with sweeping, murderous ethnic cleansing campaigns in 1948, known far-right militant corps killed Palestinians for their land already before 1948, Hamas were formed in 1987, in response to this history.) The genocide supporters win because they make Hamas the problem - and we let them do that. Hamas are a result of the problem, and so is Oct 7th, while the current genocide is a continuation of the problem. The problem is &gt; a Western settler colonial occupation implemented into a region that has nothing to do with Western problems (like antisemitism - while in Palestine, Jewish communities have always lived as part of society) - and that Western occupation of Middle Eastern land and people is being justified with a Western problem ( antisemitism, and coupled with a supremacist ideology of being a worthier race of people than others, that is a characteristic of fascism), which - again - the Middle East has nothing to do with. Nations in the Middle East do not oppose the modern-day State of Israel because of religion, but because of occupation and murder. This is the actual problem - and has been going on for far longer than organisations like Hamas exist. Could we strip the supporters of the genocide of their justification narrative please - to finally help those who are dying as we speak, and probably more people, incl. us and our future?

Ed was always about the money anyway. He sold out to a billionaire, kow towed to a krisp &amp; now the 2 words FREE Palestine is synonimous with Antisemitic. Then he throws his best friends under the bus. It is great to know what money can buy. Definitely not sheeran tickets!

If he was showing images etc, then it had sheerans support because it would all ahve to have been submitted to the media crew, sound crew etc, and been pushed up from the front controllers etc, you cannot just overide show technology you would have to get permission from the main act etc... so somethign is not right here, this was not some surprise if he was using high tech equiptment hired by ed sheerans company.