Cancel culture is toxic. That has been on major display this last week with the Macklemore anti-Israel crap. After cancel mob blowback, Ed Sheeran caved and uttered a tearful speech on stage.

Crooner Ed Sheeran called Israel’s actions in Gaza “unjustifiable” as he wept and broke his silence during his first concert since booting rapper Macklemore from his tour for tirades against the Jewish state.

“I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician, but this put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet,” Sheeran told the Philly crowd of concertgoers Saturday night.

Sheeran spoke multiple times about the controversy during Saturday night’s show at Lincoln Financial Field, growing progressively more upset as the night wore on and eventually telling fans it had been one of the “worst weeks of his life” and that “I really didn’t know whether I’d be even get on stage again, whether I wanted to be an artist at all.”

At the start of the show, before playing any music, he zeroed on his feelings about the Gaza War, criticizing both Israel and Hamas.

Whomever wrote the talking points did a masterful job on helping Ed ‘both sides’ the issue.

As Lisa wrote, Macklemore decided to hijack the Ed Sheeran tour with an anti-Semitic, pro-Gaza screed. Understandably, people were not amused and were not playing his game. Especially once it became apparent to many that Macklemore had paraded himself around at other concerts while wearing 1930’s Nazi propaganda Jew face. At the time, he proclaimed the resemblance was just a mere coincidence. Uh huh…

A giant fake nose. An Orthodox Jew caricature. On stage.

Macklemore crossed the line from political activism into blatant antisemitism. Absolutely disgusting.

No excuses. No euphemisms. No “context.”

Call it out. Condemn it. Demand accountability. Silence is not an option. https://t.co/QcP9yAVkUF

— Lisa McClain (@LisaForCongress) September 7, 2026

There are hundreds of propaganda posters and cartoons published that portrayed Jews with big noses and bulging eyes. And much of that has now been circulating since the October 7 attacks. Macklemore has been vocal in his support of Gaza and Hamas. So no, his choice wasn’t a coincidence.

On Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & the Gaza obsessives’ lie-based psychosis: pic.twitter.com/L7fOXBBxJ2

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 18, 2026

Macklemore was told by stadium owner, Robert Kraft, that he wasn’t welcome after his anti-Israel screed. Which Kraft has every right to do.

Which is when the cancel mob went after Ed Sheeran tooth and nail. His band quit, the additional ‘headliner’ bands playing before his set quit. Macklemore got to play ‘woe is me!,’ and protestors showed up outside the Philadelphia venue.

As we’ve written here a multitude of times, there IS NO genocide in Gaza.

It’s incredibly disappointing that he apologized. It’s incredibly disappointing that he put Israel and Hamas on the same side, as if both sides are responsible for the situation in Gaza today. There is only one side responsible for it, and that is Hamas. pic.twitter.com/45sluhhzS1

— Israel & World News (@Nonstopnews_) September 20, 2026

It would not surprise me one bit to find out that Ed Sheeran caved to the mob, not only because of the pressure from his handlers and the cancel mob, but from Macklemore himself. 

After Macklemore was dropped, he responded to his removal in a statement, saying that he and Sheeran had held “difficult conversations” in the aftermath of the MetLife shows. While expressing respect for Sheeran personally, the rapper challenged the singer’s preference for remaining publicly neutral and said he did not regret using the tour stage to speak in support of Palestinians. Macklemore has since said he will donate $1 million to Palestinian relief organizations.

Uh huh. I’d bet a good portion of that $1 million went right into Hamas coffers.

Ed Sheeran wasn’t only hounded by Macklemore and all the very best PR people in the music business, he evidently was blasted by family members over this. Specifically his cousin, Jethro.

“Finally it’s all coming out! I’m ashamed of my cousin Ed he’s done. Finally the world and all his fans see through him. He’s not a good person, I don’t like his music so I can’t say he’s even a good artist,” Jethro posted on Instagram.

He also wrote, “He’s honestly a selfish individual with malicious, cunning ways… I’m his first blood cousin and he screwed me over, made fun of my mental health and mental health in general.”

Despite Macklemore previously saying that Ed was pressured into dropping him from his tour by stadium owners, Jethro said he believes Ed made the decision himself, calling his cousin “shady” and a “coward.”

Jethro reeks of jealousy, but still, I’m sure Ed just loved having family members explain how HE is the one at fault for what Macklemore decided to do.

And that’s where this is.

Macklemore decided to hijack and essentially blow up Ed Sheeran’s tour for his own benefit while virtue signaling about Gaza. People decided to boycott, and stadium owners said they don’t want Macklemore to step foot in their venues.

Yet somehow this was Ed’s fault?

Antizionists: “We don’t hate Jews! Criticizing the Israeli government is NOT antisemitic!”

The ‘criticism’: pic.twitter.com/GPczLJgdwV

— Nazi Hunters (@HuntersOfNazis) September 19, 2026

Sadly Sheeran caved to the mob.

There are no winners here. None.

Feature Photo Credit: Drew de F Fawkes, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons/Cropped