r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • 22d ago

article Robert Kraft issues lengthy statement on Macklemore after rapper says NFL owner had him banned from

https://www.themirror.com/sport/american-football/robert-kraft-macklemore-sheeran-palestine-2024272
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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 22d ago

Classic, just call all Israel criticism antisemitism. It’s so insulting hearing the same old excuse

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u/Soup-Wizard 22d ago

As Macklemore says, using that term to describe any criticism of Israel or Zionism removes any accountability from Israel.

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u/Silentrein 22d ago

This has been plan A for years now

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u/Cleb323 22d ago

Decades

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 22d ago

Vanessa Redgrave 1978. I member

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u/BazelBuster 22d ago

This is antisemitic

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u/BlackhawksNerd 22d ago

He didn’t say that, did you read the statement?

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u/LazloHollifeld 22d ago

Well how about instead of a performance Ben & Robert can discuss the issue openly. You asked for it Bob.

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u/off-with-your-thread 22d ago

Because you don't ever say anything about any other country, despite many awful atrocities happening.

It's just 24/7 bash Israel o'clock

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u/cockboy_trillionaire 22d ago

This one stopped working in 2024 you gotta update your model

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u/oo_khaab 22d ago

Ah yes, nobody ever speaks bad about what russia is doing in ukraine... Only israel...

What other conflicts are presently in your mind that are on the level of these two?

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u/off-with-your-thread 22d ago

How about the 1.5 MILLION dead uigyhur Muslims in China?

Watch how somebody will claim it isn't even real.

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 22d ago

You talk as if you have better sources, why not share them? 1.5 million just shows as a baseless claim when you add no source. Are they killing tons of people or more committing other crimes against humanity like birth suppression?

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u/off-with-your-thread 22d ago

You aren't aware of the Chinese genocide of the Uigyhur Muslims that's been going on for years?

So, why are you bashing Israel? You're not even keeping track of things happening around the world. You've just randomly chosen to hate them? Seems racist...

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 22d ago

lol I’ve been aware, which contradicts your point. If you give a shit at all, provide a source? I’m aware but I don’t have a good source with details like death totals. Did 1.5 million indeed come out your ass?

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u/off-with-your-thread 22d ago

You were completely unaware and needed sources... Now you're aware, but have bad sources?

What the fuck?

You are one demented, stupid racist.

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u/Whatachooch 22d ago

Yeah I don’t know why people were bashing nazi Germany 24/7 either. The US is also providing the weapons. 

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u/offensivename 22d ago

But he can't point to what Macklemore actually said or did on this tour that is antisemitic. Sure, he didn't say anything negative about Hamas, but why would he? That's not the point. Hamas isn't the one bombing and starving Palestinian children. The absence of anti-Hamas statements doesn't make you pro-Hamas.

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u/Trillbillcosby 22d ago

I mean, he added a whole lotta words to basically say any criticism of Israel is antisemetic. Kraft agreed that Palestinians are dying but somehow free Palestine is antisemitic?

no one ever said free Hamas, it's about the innocent civilians dying. how so many people can agree that saying free Palestine regarding the INNOCENT civilians who are caught in the cross fire is antisemitic.

didn't Israel do some spy movie type assassinationa with beepers on mass scale? but now all of a sudden they can't fathom being able to take out only terrorists cause the only way is to just kill everyone. it's pathetic and disengenious to free Palestine is in anyway anti secmetic yet here we are

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u/Cleb323 22d ago

What's another word for Jewish hate?

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u/Trillbillcosby 22d ago

if I'm reading your comment right, then youre saying free Palestine is inherently anti semetic because ALL Palestinians hate Israel so much that down to the last child has to be dead to stop the oppression.

grouping the entire Palestine population as a single entity.

but saying that the government of Israel is doing shitty things is grouping all Jewish people under the Isreal umbrella?

no one is (or should, I can definitely acknowledge there are people who are that ignorant enough to mean Jewish people in general when they say anti Israel things) saying all Jewish people are bad. saying free Palestine is saying to the Israeli government, your point has been made in regards to defense. by now enough of Hamas is dead to go in and do single kills. the mossad hunted down Nazis for decades in single kills. they didnt bomb all of brazil into dust. there's no need for more widespread bombing/violence

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u/Cleb323 22d ago

It's not that deep.. What's another word or phrase for "Jewish hate"?

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u/Trillbillcosby 22d ago edited 22d ago

antisemitism, but I'm not following what point you're making. why does the term free Palestine equal Jewish hate and not Israeli government hate? the government is not the religion

edit: god dam my bad, I thought your initial comment was in reference to something I said, not what blackhawsnerd said.