Ed Sheeran Clarifies Gaza Stance, Again Blames Venues for Kicking Macklemore Off Tour

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "Now, I want to address the question of where I stand in the situation in Israel and Palestine, and whether my doing this concert here tonight implies where I stand.
49% : Sheeran also used his pre-show speech to further share his thoughts about October 7 along with Israel's ongoing assault on Palestinians.
48% : Macklemore's shows, including the two he played opening for Sheeran, have long included footage of Israel's continued bombing of Gaza and a performance of "Hind's Hall," his song for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old killed by the Israeli military.
44% : Sheeran called what's happening in Gaza "catastrophic, unjustifiable, and disproportionate" but did not take responsibility for the rapper being removed from the show Ed Sheeran ended the longest week of his career on Saturday by sharing his thoughts on Israel's continued assault on Gaza and further addressing the severe backlash to Macklemore being removed from the singer's ongoing tour.
41% : What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
31% : "What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain," he said.

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