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Rowe <a href="http://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/finneas-lukas-graham-leave-ed-sheeran-tour-macklemore-1235627181/" target="_blank">abandoned opening for Sheeran</a>‘s Loop Tour in the wake of <a id="auto-tag_macklemore" href="http://au.rollingstone.com/t/macklemore/" data-tag="macklemore" target="_blank">Macklemore</a> being <a href="http://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-pro-palestine-statements-1235625967/" target="_blank">forced off</a> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-statement-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-1235626135/" target="_blank">it</a> after making onstage comments in support of Palestinians and criticising Israel’s war in Gaza.</p><div class="ad-mrec" id="ad-incontent-1"><div id="div-gpt-article_incontent_1" style="margin: auto; text-align: center"><script>googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display("div-gpt-article_incontent_1");});</script></div></div><p>“I’m gonna be honest. I think you are all focusing on the wrong person here,” Rowe said in a lengthy, edited <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DdbkSgquqzg/?hl=en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">video posted to Instagram</a> on Friday. “All I keep hearing is Ed Sheeran this, Ed Sheeran that — when you really should be focusing on the likes of [New England Patriots owner] Robert Kraft. You really should be focusing on the Zionist lobbies that are trying to silence the voices of people who are shouting about genocide, the genocide that is happening in Palestine right now by Israel.”</p><p>He acknowledged that Sheeran’s statement in the wake of the fallout “could have been a lot better.” (Sheeran said <a href="http://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ed-sheeran-macklemore-tour-statement-1235626937/" target="_blank">the decision was not his</a>, but that of the promoter Messina Touring Group, combined with pressure from venues as orchestrated by Kraft.)</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdbkSgquqzg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"><div style="padding: 16px;"><p></p><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div><div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div><div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"><div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div><div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"><div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div><div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div></div></div><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div></div><p></p><p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdbkSgquqzg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A post shared by aaron rowe (@aaronrowe__)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script> <div class="observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white"><div class="img-wrap" style="background-image: url(https://images-r2-2.thebrag.com/newsletters/newsletter_rollingstone_logo_20250512.jpg); background-size: cover;"></div><div class="observer-sub-form-info p-3" style="justify-content: start;"><h2 class="h5 mb-0 observer-title">Love Music?</h2><p class="observer-desc mb-2"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian/New Zealand music and globally.</p><form action="#" method="post" id="observer-subscribe-form101272"
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Rowe cited that everyone on the lineup supported Palestinians living in Gaza. “Like, if Ed Sheeran was a fucking Zionist, why would he have all these fucking people on the fucking tour?” Rowe added.</p><p>Rowe said he believed Sheeran knows he made a mistake and took his home country of Ireland, other governments, the media, and the music industry to task who he said have “done fuck all” about the situation, despite having “so much money and so much power that they’re able to basically shut down any opinion that they don’t agree with.</p><p>“You should be using this opportunity to plaster Robert Kraft’s face everywhere, someone who tried to shut down free speech, someone who tried to silence the voices of people who are shouting out genocide,” he added. “That’s what you should be using your energy on, not fucking Ed Sheeran, for fuck’s sake.”</p><p>Doubling down on his stance after his removal from the tour, <a href="http://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-palestine-donation-ed-sheeran-tour-1235628025/" target="_blank">Macklemore pledged to donate $1 million</a> to Palestinian support groups and challenged Kraft “to match” him. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-kraft-responds-macklemore-1-million-donation-match-1235628081/" target="_blank">Kraft responded with a statement</a> that included a $2 million commitment “to aid in the region to fight this humanitarian crisis,” claiming it was a match to a donation from Sheeran. 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