https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/15/ed-sheeran-response-macklemore-free-palestine-comment

“I have always used my platform and music to bring people from all backgrounds and cultures together and this won’t ever change,” he wrote, later adding: “I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep the conversations open, not closed.”

“I am not complicit,” he added. “I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have them, and it doesn’t mean that I don’t care. Nor does it mean that I don’t support causes in my own, personal way.”

How on earth do they think "keeping the conversation open" means kicking a person off your tour for saying something a rich twat who owns the stadium doesn't like? Even by celeb logic, that's utter bobbins.

He's clearly getting a lot of backlash for his cowardice and someone's bottom line is being impacted somewhere so they made him spew another pile of flak-crafted bullshit. It's not working Ed. Everybody saw you. Everybody knows.