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Being Pimped By The Billionaires For Genocide Is A Bad Look - PopularResistance.Org
It is hard not to be excited at the very public shaming of a major celebrity, pop star Ed Sheeran, over his agreement to remove a friend and support act, Macklemore, from his current US tour. During his set, Macklemore spoke out eloquently against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This feels like a very belated turning-point. During the three years of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the corporate world has maintained its grip over the West’s cultural spaces – in part, to conceal its own complicity in those crimes. Now that chokehold has been exposed – and it looks every bit as ugly as, indeed, it is.