{"id":3376,"date":"2026-10-27T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:03:47","slug":"macklemore-vows-to-fight-until-last-breath-at-opening-of-free-palestine-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"Macklemore vows to fight until ‘last breath’ at opening of ‘Free Palestine’ tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American rapper Macklemore vowed to continue to speak out loudly against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza at \u200bthe opening of his \u201cFree Palestine\u201d concert tour organised after he was dropped as the opening \u200cact for Ed Sheeran over pro-Palestinian remarks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Grammy-winning rapper received a deafening ovation in Dublin, where fans in the overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian country came draped in Palestinian flags, black, red and green football jerseys and keffiyeh scarves being sold by vendors outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI \u200bam proud to stand here on stage in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will \u200bcontinue to fight for collective liberation until our last breath,\u201d Macklemore said on stage, \u2060where he waved a Palestinian flag for much of his set.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix weeks ago, two words is all \u200bthat it took,\u201d he said, referring to the rallying cry of \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and his criticism of the Israeli \u200bgovernment\u2019s actions in Gaza and the West Bank at New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium that led to his removal from Sheeran\u2019s US tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two words are so threatening to some people that we\u2019d rather silence those two words than confront what they \u200bactually mean\u2026 Somehow those words have become more controversial than the suffering that made them necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd, \u200bwho snapped up the 13,000 tickets for Dublin\u2019s 3Arena within minutes, chanted \u201cFree Free Palestine\u201d throughout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a speaker for our time. \u200cIt \u2060has to be somebody like that who can reach out to people. He made it feel so alive, and I\u2019ve come out feeling I want to be part of something,\u201d said Siobhan Lyons from Dublin, who attended the concert with her daughter.<\/p>\n

Irish artists who have spoken out against Israel\u2019s actions played in support \u200bon Monday, including \u201cTake Me \u200bto Church\u201d singer Hozier, \u2060rap group Kneecap and Beoga, one of the acts who quit Sheeran\u2019s tour in solidarity with Macklemore.<\/p>\n

Palestinian singer Lina Makhoul and Palestinian American DJ Habibeats also performed, \u200band pro-Palestine activists such as Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham spoke between \u200bsets.<\/p>\n

Sheeran, one of \u2060the world\u2019s top-selling recording artists, said stadium owners on the remaining dates threatened to bar any further shows with Macklemore on the bill.<\/p>\n

Palestinian authorities say more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza, launched \u2060after Hamas-led \u200bfighters killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel on October \u200b7, 2023. Israeli officials deny their actions in Gaza amount to genocide.<\/p>\n

The \u201cFree Palestine\u201d tour will continue in Paris and London this week, \u200bwith US dates due to be announced later, Macklemore has said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American rapper Macklemore vowed to continue to speak out loudly against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza at \u200bthe opening of his \u201cFree Palestine\u201d concert tour organised after he was dropped as the opening \u200cact for Ed Sheeran over pro-Palestinian remarks. The Grammy-winning rapper received a deafening ovation in Dublin, where fans in the overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian country came draped in Palestinian flags, black, red and green football jerseys and keffiyeh scarves being sold by vendors outside. \u201cI \u200bam proud to stand here on stage in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}