Own goal of the century:

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@randahl well Kanye toured the same stadium as Sheeran without any backlash from the stadium owner… I do not mean West and Pink are ideologically bound. Just they both have narratives the stadium owner is willing to accept in his stadium.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@randahl @FrancoisPrague

#Pink deserves to be mentioned because it was Pink who triggered this entire drama. it was her who brought to the recent forefront criticism of #Macklemore for his support for #Palestine, he has been doing this on stage for years

also: she claims to be defending Jews. this isn't about Jews or antisemitism, it's about #Israel's actions

and I don't know when this world will finally understand the radioactively obvious fucking difference

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/pink-anti-macklemore-palestine-post-1236698412/

[nomenloony@nomenloony.com]

@randahl well that went well for him didn't it? Sorry I can't boycott him as I've always thought his music was insipid detritus.

[nomenloony@nomenloony.com]

@FrancoisPrague @randahl they could add Kid Rock and The Disturbed on. Imagine the tour album collection? It would literally sell tens of copies!

[dc4dd@sueden.social]

@randahl To be honest: I do not know any of this people.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@_elena @randahl @paulk

Ed is political when it's convenient.

[lordkhan@social.cologne]

@benroyce @randahl @FrancoisPrague that’s the point: it’s about calling a crime a crime. This whole “you’re just saying it because I’m <you name it>” is so exhausting.

[lordkhan@social.cologne]

@randahl what a turnaround. I just read Macklemore’s statement which was very well put and which is a great example of critique with leaving the door open for change.

[zerodowntime@mastodon.social]

@randahl I wasn't aware of Ed's support for Israeli nonsense. I shall do my part and remove him from all playlists.

Who in their right mind support that state?!

[lordkhan@social.cologne]

@benroyce @randahl @FrancoisPrague yes, I am with you there. Antisemitism is becoming stronger every day, which makes it harder to distinguish who is actually concerned about war crimes or just being antisemitic or a racist.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

yes, #antisemitism is on the rise in the world

so we talk about it and we oppose it

we *also* talk about and we oppose #Israel's genocidal actions

we do both

and those are completely unrelated, uncrossed topics

except in the words of complete idiots and manipulative liars

[kalvaro@mastodon.social]

@randahl Ed Sheeran is the living meme of the pretend moderate who sets a middle ground between genocide and no genocide.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@zerodowntime

Sheeran was not so much pro-israel as "bowed down to an ultimatum from pro-Israel venue owners".

As much as such moral cowardice should be shamed, we need this light to be shone on Kraft and his ultimatum.

Sheeran should have made noise about it instead of trying to quietly shove the moral person off the tour.

@randahl

[androcat@toot.cat]

@randahl Please add the bit about the venue owners' ultimatum.

Those are the ones we really need to get out into the open, because they're going to keep doing this, otherwise.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@lordkhan

It's a great statement.
And that's probably why everyone else left.

@randahl

[androcat@toot.cat]

@benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

And let's recall: Zionism never had a plan that was not genocide.

Building an ethnostate where other people live == genocide.

How was this smoothed over for 70 years?

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

the problem being, there _are_ a lot of manipulative liars in this space. one does have to be super clear when talking about this topic, becuase there really are antisemites who will seize on Israel's actions as an excuse/justification/reinforcement for their own bigotry.

what a hot mess, but (back to the original topic) a spectacular own goal, I hope Ed Sheeran will take the time to consider his situation with clear eyes.

[hallvors@oslo.town]

@randahl thanks for explaining why my timeline suddenly was negative to Sheeran..

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@fanchig @randahl And he didn’t stand up for him.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@DC4DD @randahl I knew Finneas, because he is Billie Eilish’s brother and collaborator. Many people know the Bond movie ”No Time to Die”, they wrote the title song for that.