Zionists have the power to decide if one of the world’s biggest pop stars gets to tour, just as they can decide who does journalism or TV presenting or acting or sports.
Robert Kraft, owner of New England Patriots receiving the Zionist Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Changemaker award, May 2023. (ADL YouTube video, Screenshot)
It’s been a problem for the longest time. Someone says something Zionists don’t like and they’re immediately cancelled. Even worse, it’s the type of cancel culture you’re not allowed to rage against, because the moment you do, you’re cancelled too. What’s more, you’re powerless because Zionists have the media and politicians on their side, and they have the expensive lawyers.
Of course, none of what I’ve just said is true. It’s an “antisemitic conspiracy theory,” even though we see it happening all the time.
Thankfully, people are waking up. The Ed Sheeran / Macklemore saga is a clear example of this. But it’s not enough to say you stand in solidarity with Macklemore. It’s not even enough to drop out of a tour in support of him and Gaza. You have to call out the Zionist control of our institutions, otherwise this problem just isn’t going away.
If you’re somehow not up to scratch on the whole Ed Sheeran thing, it goes like this: he dropped rapper Macklemore from his U.S. tour after pressure from Zionist Robert Kraft.
Kraft is a man who appears in the Epstein files, was twice caught on camera with prostitutes, donates heavily to the I.D.F., and even has a surveillance system inside his Gillette stadium that monitors the internet for criticism of Israel. I shit you not.
Ed Sheeran happens to be mates with Kraft and sang at his wedding to a woman who is 33 years younger than him, about 12 inches taller, and definitely didn’t marry for money. Sheeran calls Kraft “very sweet” and gushes that his was the first U.S. venue he performed at.
Sheeran has been mates with Macklemore for over 13 years. He was well aware of Macklemore’s advocacy for Palestine and knew he would use the stage to speak up. He invited him on tour because he thought he could milk both sides. He thought he could be the nice, reasonable guy who is very sad about the suffering on “both sides” and doesn’t get involved. He thought he could be seen as the unifier. It’s perverse. Morally, it’s no different from trying to unite Jews and Nazis, or black people and the KKK.
Sheeran was far too naive to understand that neither side was going to accept his fake neutrality. When it’s genocide versus non-genocide, you will always be asked to pick a side — and that’s exactly what Kraft made him do.
Billionaire Bans Support for Palestine
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (Naaman Omar\Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kraft called Sheeran and said “drop Macklemore or else you can’t perform at my stadium.” He also got his billionaire buddies involved and they all said the same. In other words, a handful of Zionists decided that Macklemore is not allowed to advocate for Gaza on stage. And they decided that if Ed wants to keep him, his tour is over.
Zionists literally have the power to decide if one of the world’s biggest pop stars gets to tour, just like they get to decide who does journalism or TV presenting or acting or sports or post online. Excuse me, but who gave them this power? They ruin the lives of literally anyone who stands up to them.
But standing up to them is what we must do. It’s the only way we win. We need to collectively say “enough.” When they cancel us we must cancel them harder. We must boycott everything they’re associated with. Support for Zionism must be an immediate career ender, rather than opposition to Zionism.
Sheeran could and should have stood with his friend against genocide. Aside from anything else, he probably had the law on his side. Kraft would almost certainly have been in breach of contract, as would the other stadium owners, but Sheeran chickened out of the fight.
Sheeran decided it was easier to not upset Israel supporters, get on with his tour, ditch his friend, and let him be censored. This kind of behaviour not only enables censorship to continue, it enables genocide to continue.
Sheeran could have called the stadium owners’ bluff. He could have said “cancel this tour and I’ll sue you into oblivion and ensure the world knows what’s happening.” He could’ve used this as a moment of amplification for Gaza. The man’s worth a few hundred million quid. He could’ve taken the financial hit, paid his support acts, and come out a hero. Whatever path he chose, his tour was probably gonna be cancelled, but this way he’s haemorrhaging support.
It says everything that Zionists were being offered ticket refunds because of what Macklemore said on stage, but no one is being given a refund for the support acts dropping out. Only the feelings of one side count.
People who bought tickets can and should do a charge back through their bank. Let those stadiums be empty. It’s only what Sheeran and his Zionist mates deserve.
Silence Enables Genocide
Ed Sheeran in Liverpool, 2012. (Sean Reynolds Photography, CC-ASA 2.)
Sheeran punished his mate under the pretence of neutrality and abandoned the Palestinians in their time of need. He even had the gall to say he has a different approach to peace. His approach is total silence.
A key reason why genocides happen is that not enough people take a stand. Sheeran chose to be an enabler. The man who says he doesn’t pick sides picked a side. He proved that being the nice guy is not the same as being the good guy.
Hilariously, one of his excuses was that he said he needs to pay his support acts. He was too dumb to realise that unlike him, his support acts really are Irish. They understand colonialism and will always stand against it. Every single one of those acts dropped out of the tour, including Sheeran’s own band.
Some of these acts are tiny and could really use the money, but they took the financial hit. What this shows is that we’re reaching a tipping point where people are no longer afraid of cancellation because they feel this too deeply. When you genuinely care, you will make a personal sacrifice.
Getting here is an important step, but it’s not the final step. The final step is reaching the point where no one has to make a sacrifice. Only then will we have won.
Just look at Sangita Myska and Nadia Sawalha — two British women who are starting their own podcast because they found themselves out of work after upsetting genocide supporters.
Many others have suffered the same fate, but even when people are cancelled by Zionists, they seem terrified to address the core issue: Zionists control everything from our media to our financial institutions to our politicians.
It’s not good enough to say it’s unfair that Macklemore or whoever is dropped. We have to say that it’s completely unacceptable that Zionists are in control. We need to say it’s totally wrong for them to debank their critics like Mint Press News, or drop movie stars like Melissa Barrera, or sack T.V. stars like Gary Lineker, or coerce our politicians into treating grannies in wheelchairs as terrorists or take over TikTok to hide the truth about Israel’s war crimes.
We need to make it loud and clear that we will not let genocide supporters decide what speech is acceptable. Until we are prepared to highlight the Zionism problem, the cancellation will only continue.
This article is from Council Estate Media by Ricky, a Website promoting working class politics and anti-imperialism with over 34,000 subscribers
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Article: “A key reason why genocides happen is that not enough people take a stand.”
More precisely, not enough given enormous chorus supporting genocide, including macabre lies by top officials, starting from President of United States (Biden’s beheaded children, I guess still a mystery who plied it to him), still intense stream:
“These are the people that raped women in front of their own children,” Huckabee told Newsmax host Rob Schmitt. “That hacked off their genitals in front of their families. That lit elderly people on fire and burned them to death while they sat in wheelchairs. That did unspeakable things to children. That cut the heads off of babies and put other babies in an oven while they were alive. Now anyone who cheers that, they’re not just sick, they’re psychopathic.”
“Now if anybody says well that stuff didn’t really happen, well, we know it did, Rob, because Hamas taped themselves doing it. We have it on video,”
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This stream of lies may genuinely confuse people like Ed Sheehan. Readers here trust Consortium News, 972+ etc and distrust the likes of Huckabee, but what a person who probably never followed news analytically (vast majority) can conclude? A nice person (perhaps Mr. Kraft is polite etc. when in the same venue with a celebrity) says one thing, an authoritative source like Ambassador adds details, while “whacky” Macklemore another, easiest to conclude that “complex, both sides, this is not a proper place”.
Medium and Substack just canceled my accounts over my post titled MACKLEMORE EXPOSES JEWISH CONTROL. The excuse was “harassment” but as always there’s no specific explanation and appeals are arrogantly rejected without citing any specifics. There’s a lot of this cancelation going on, it needs to stop and there needs to be more discussion than I’m seeing anywhere. DM me for the original draft and judge for yourself what’s going on. I’m sure it’s the Zionist influence and the “antisemitic” canard.
Sorry Mr. Baker, your attempt to downplay Zionist massive influence is unfortunate. You contribute to the very division you claim to lament. The recent 24 minute speech by Max Blumethal at a Ron Paul Institute function, available at the Grayzone, illuminates the Zionists in their destructive role. That they have a major role in the goals of the “elites” is beyond dispute. And bringing this fact to the light of day is a worthy endeavor.
The simple truth is that it is primarily Zionists who function as “Elite gatekeepers”. Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past few years knows that the Epstein network was a Mossad operation, facilitated by Zionist billionaires Les Wexner, Leon Black, Charles Bronfman, Robert Kraft etc.
The good news is that the depravity of the Epstein class has highlighted the corrosive effects of Zionist
influence. Most Americans are thoroughly disgusted when they hear AIPAC openly gloating about buying politicians in primary races and see US based Zionists (almost all dual citizens) smearing anyone voicing even the mildest criticism of Israel as “antisemitic” and threatening to destroy their lives.
I’m pretty certain that a single issue “Cancel Israeli Influence” party would sweep the mid-terms!
I can’t say I’ve got the answer to these problems.
Adam is correct, but not necessarily right.
Many of us don’t have the resources to identify, let alone take any action that would bother those gatekeeping elites, or for that matter, the Zionists.
We know that there are organisations in our countries that are proudly advertising themselves as Zionists, but like in every country that prides itself as being able to democratically elected their preferred government, we want peace.
Our citizens have previously given their lives to stop countries like Israel, killing innocent people, but our govt. is compromised by the very nature of democracy.
Our governments have no intention of using our militaries to prevent Israel’s murderous rain of terror.
Our governments are even unwilling to bestow any negative criticism, of any substance, upon Israel’s murderous rain of terror.
All we can do is name and shame our governments.
Mine is Australis. Our Prime Minister is Anthony Albanese.
But he’s not alone. His party, the Labor Party isn’t alone.
The opposition parties are in total sync with his actions, or lack of.
We can’t even solve this with kicking Labor out of power.
The only alternative is even worse.
The Liberal Party and National Party, collectively known as the LNP, are very, very, extreme right-wing.
There’s nothing left.
Our country won’t vote in enough Independents because they have nothing to offer in regard to running the country.
All I can do is to encourage Australians to consider voting for Independents in the vague hope of enough being elected to provide some anti-Zionist opposition.
Of course, it could never be enough to overcome both of the major parties pro-Zionist affliction, that being money.
For someone like myself who does not follow the ‘popular’ music scene, this essay was extremely enlightening and helpful in deepening my understanding of what when down. With gratitude and great rsspect, I would offer: Like most who are speaking, writing and are horrified by the ongoing genocide and attempted ethnic cleansing carried out, literally, before our eyes … attributed to Israel, which is only partially true. This constitutes my appeal: please let all who write, speak, discuss this agree, or at least consider that, going forward you will always attribute these acts – either individually or collectively – to the United Statss (over several administrations) and Israel. Please consider this in the context that Palestinians were displaced in 1948 and have suffered the complicity of the United States, backed by its allies who are also complicit in a number of ways. For me, the absence of constant reminders that this involvement has gone on for more than 80 years. Financially, politically, intellectually. Our country is an active participant in having violated human rights, international law, its own constitution and a vast number of basic moral principals. All prior administrations have, in one or more ways, been participants. This is not only Trump and his minions, who are possibly the most egregious.
Ah, the smallness of the modern left. The entire problem is framed as “Zionists.” The entire problem revolves around Israel. Yeah, right.
The problem is the Elites. The super-rich at the top of society. They are the ones who decide everything. Zionism is just one of their ’causes’. So, yes, the Elites control what is said about ‘Israel’. But, the problem goes much, much further than that. The same Elites control what is said about everything. The same elites control who gets to say anything about anything.
Today, we see a world where the Elites have made sure that the opposition is never united. They keep the opposition divided into little groups. This little group opposes ‘the Zionists’, but fails to see the much larger and more dangerous pictures. The Elites are gate-keepers that control everything you see, read or hear.
United we stand, divided we fall. Unite around the understanding that you live in a world dominated by the Elites, who are the Gate-Keepers to everything. If you solve that problem, if you create a world that really has freedom for non-billionaires, if you create a world where there is real democracy as a government of the people and for the people, then you will have solved the Zionism problem along the way.
“The People, United, can never be Defeated.” — something I heard once on the streets, but never from screens controlled by the gate-keeping Elites.
I could not agree more ^^
Above all they decide who should live or die.
I’m always trying to discover why if it is that if the President is controlled by Israel, the Congress is controlled by Israel, the media, the giant corporations, the war industry, the Christian Nationalists (and a lot of other Christians who just want to be first in line for Armageddon), publishers and movie-makers, etc., then why am I paying into a majority of these people’s salaries? Along with eveyone else in the country, of course. Why do we even need a President and a Congress and a Supreme Court if they are simply servile minions to the will of a foreign country? Shouldn’t they all be registered as foreign agents? Of course, having free health care for the rest of your life certainly makes me consider becoming US Representative of a county with only twenty-thousand people in it. D.C. – here I come! But wait, I just lost the votes of 80% of my base voter rolls!
Above all they decided who should live or die.
however, the zionists cannot dictate who WILL take part:
“Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths
Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protests
Ireland is to boycott Eurovision for the second year running over the “appalling” ongoing killing in Gaza, the national broadcaster has said.
Ireland was one of five countries, along with Iceland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia, that refused to take part in the competition this year in protest against Israel’s participation.”
xxxx//www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/17/ireland-to-boycott-eurovision-again-over-ongoing-deaths-in-gaza
It appears that they also canceled Charlie Kirk with a public execution. Kirk had announced just before his assassination that he “had no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause”. Kirk was a prominent political figure whose strong support of free speech and opposition to war with Iran made him a threat to Trump/Netanyahu war plans. Plus he had objected to Israeli actions in Gaza – even asking out loud if Israel/Netanyahu had prompted and/or allowed Oct 7 to happen.
Unfortunately, Charlie’s assassination is often forgotten by the Left-leaning people because Charlie was a political opponent AND Progressives were conveniently, and many believe, erroneously blamed for his death.
Candace Owens and other podcasters seeking justice for Charlie have brought to light a conspiracy of silence about the assassination that is highly suspicious. ALL of the very serious and pertinent questions raised by these podcasters have been ignored or rebuffed with insubstantial, tangential, or misleading points. TPUSA and Trump Admin officials seem more interested in propagandizing than in justice for their supposed friend.
Consider the following facts (just a sample of strangeness surrounding Kirk’s assassination): after Charlie’s death 1) TPUSA canceled a financial audit that Charlie had called for just days before he was killed; 2) TPUSA officials pretended that Charlie had not changed his mind regarding Israel and did not fear for his life after a call with Zionists the day before he was killed; 3) Netanyahu publicly declared that Israel was not involved (even though no one asked); and 4) Joe Kent was prevented from investigating foreign involvement in the assassination; 5) Charlie’s widow, a supposedly stay-at-home “trad-wife”, assumed leadership of TPUSA despite having a baby and toddler to care for (Note: Candace has found evidence that indicates that Charlie’s widow may have a connection to the Epstein Network!!); 6) TPUSA is heavily invested in promoting Christian Zionist preachers.
Given what has been revealed, Charlie deserves to be included in any list of those who have been silenced by Zionists even if his inclusion is caveated as “yet to be confirmed”.
Zionism is clearly a cancer on the planet just like any form of fascism.