r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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

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u/Soup-Wizard Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

This has been plan A for years now

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u/Cleb323 Sep 14 '26

Decades

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 Sep 15 '26

Vanessa Redgrave 1978. I member

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u/BazelBuster Sep 15 '26

This is antisemitic

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u/BlackhawksNerd Sep 14 '26

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

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u/LazloHollifeld Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

This one stopped working in 2024 you gotta update your model

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u/oo_khaab Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

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 Sep 14 '26

What's another word for Jewish hate?

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u/Trillbillcosby Sep 15 '26

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 Sep 15 '26

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

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u/Trillbillcosby Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

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.