Macklemore isn’t any stranger to utilizing his huge platform to throw his assist behind causes which are vital to him. In a current profit live performance in assist of the residents of Palestine, Macklemore uttered a powerful “F*ck America” assertion throughout his set.
As reported by Rolling Stone India, Macklemore was performing in his dwelling state of Washington over the weekend. The “Thrift Store” star dropped the pro-Palestinian observe “Hind’s Corridor” earlier this 12 months in celebration of the scholars who led protests at Columbia College in New York that took over Hamilton Corridor to honor the life and legacy of Hind Rajab, an elementary school-aged lady who was killed in the course of the Israel-Hamas battle that also rages at the moment.
In a sequel observe, “Hind’s Corridor 2,” Macklemore doubled down on the anti-Israel stance with a track that was created to learn UNRWA USA, a corporation established to assist Palestinian refugees.
Throughout his set in Seattle over the weekend, the artist born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty rocked the Palestine Will Reside Without end profit live performance in Kent, Wash. and a journalist by the title of Cam Higby captured the second in query. The video has since made its rounds on social media with many equating the rapper’s stances as anti-semitic and anti-American, with harsh critique following.
Based on Macklemore’s Fb web page concerning the profit live performance, proceeds from the occasion at Seward Park Amphitheater can be unfold amongst a number of different organizations in assist of Palestinian refugees.
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