Why Do We Let Zionists Decide What We Can and Can’t Say?

Kraft is a man who appears in the Epstein files, was twice caught on camera with prostitutes, donates heavily to the IDF, and even has a surveillance system inside his Gillette stadium that monitors the internet for criticism of Israel.

By Ricky, Council Estate Media

It’s been a problem for the longest time. Someone says something Zionists don’t like and they’re immediately cancelled. Even worse, it’s the type of cancel culture you’re not allowed to rage against, because the moment you do, you’re cancelled too. What’s more, you’re powerless because Zionists have the media and politicians on their side, and they have the expensive lawyers.

Of course, none of what I’ve just said is true. It’s an “antisemitic conspiracy theory”, even though we see it happening all the time.

Thankfully, people are waking up. The Ed Sheeran / Macklemore saga is a clear example of this. But it’s not enough to say you stand in solidarity with Macklemore. It’s not even enough to drop out of a tour in support of him and Gaza. You have to call out the Zionist control of our institutions, otherwise this problem just isn’t going away.

If you’re somehow not up to scratch on the whole Ed Sheeran thing, it goes like this: he dropped rapper Macklemore from his US tour after pressure from Zionist Robert Kraft.

Kraft is a man who appears in the Epstein files, was twice caught on camera with prostitutes, donates heavily to the IDF, and even has a surveillance system inside his Gillette stadium that monitors the internet for criticism of Israel. I shit you not.

Ed Sheeran happens to be mates with Kraft and sang at his wedding to a woman who is 33 years younger than him, about 12 inches taller, and definitely didn’t marry for money. Sheeran calls Kraft “very sweet” and gushes that his was the first US venue he performed at.

Sheeran has been mates with Macklemore for over 13 years. He was well aware of Macklemore’s advocacy for Palestine and knew he would use the stage to speak up. He invited him on tour because he thought he could milk both sides. He thought he could be the nice, reasonable guy who is very sad about the suffering on “both sides” and doesn’t get involved. He thought he could be seen as the unifier. It’s perverse. Morally, it’s no different from trying to unite Jews and Nazis, or black people and the KKK.

Sheeran was far too naive to understand that neither side was going to accept his fake neutrality. When it’s genocide versus non-genocide, you will always be asked to pick a side—and that’s exactly what Kraft made him do.

Kraft called Sheeran and said “drop Macklemore or else you can’t perform at my stadium”. He also got his billionaire buddies involved and they all said the same. In other words, a handful of Zionists decided that Macklemore is not allowed to advocate for Gaza on stage. And they decided that if Ed wants to keep him, his tour is over.

Zionists literally have the power to decide if one of the world’s biggest pop stars gets to tour, just like they get to decide who does journalism or TV presenting or acting or sports or post online. Excuse me, but who the fuck gave them this power? They ruin the lives of literally anyone who stands up to them.

But standing up to them is what we must do. It’s the only way we win. We need to collectively say “enough”. When they cancel us we must cancel them harder. We must boycott everything they’re associated with. Support for Zionism must be an immediate career ender, rather than opposition to Zionism.

Sheeran could and should have stood with his friend against genocide. Aside from anything else, he probably had the law on his side. Kraft would almost certainly have been in breach of contract, as would the other stadium owners, but Sheeran chickened out of the fight.

He decided it was easier to not upset Israel supporters, get on with his tour, ditch his friend, and let him be censored. This kind of behaviour not only enables censorship to continue, it enables genocide to continue.

Sheeran could have called the stadium owners’ bluff. He could have said “cancel this tour and I’ll sue you into oblivion and ensure the world knows what’s happening”. He could’ve used this as a moment of amplification for Gaza. The man’s worth a few hundred million quid. He could’ve taken the financial hit, paid his support acts, and come out a hero. Whatever path he chose, his tour was probably gonna be cancelled, but this way he’s haemorrhaging support.

It says everything that Zionists were being offered ticket refunds because of what Macklemore said on stage, but no one is being given a refund for the support acts dropping out. Only the feelings of one side count.

People who bought tickets can and should do a charge back through their bank. Let those stadiums be empty. It’s only what Sheeran and his Zionist mates deserve.

Sheeran punished his mate under the pretence of neutrality and abandoned the Palestinians in their time of need. He even had the gall to say he has a different approach to peace. His approach is total silence.

A key reason why genocides happen is that not enough people take a stand. Sheeran chose to be an enabler. The man who says he doesn’t pick sides picked a side. He proved that being the nice guy is not the same as being the good guy.

Hilariously, one of his excuses was that he said he needs to pay his support acts. He was too dumb to realise that unlike him, his support acts really are Irish. They understand colonialism and will always stand against it. Every single one of those acts dropped out of the tour, including Sheeran’s own band.

Some of these acts are tiny and could really use the money, but they took the financial hit. What this shows is that we’re reaching a tipping point where people are no longer afraid of cancellation because they feel this too deeply. When you genuinely care, you will make a personal sacrifice.

Getting here is an important step, but it’s not the final step. The final step is reaching the point where no one has to make a sacrifice. Only then will we have won.

We need to address the elephant in the room. Zionists are the gatekeepers of speech. Just look at Sangita Myska and Nadia Sawalha—two British women who are starting their own podcast because they found themselves out of work after upsetting genocide supporters.

Many others have suffered the same fate, but even when people are cancelled by Zionists, they seem terrified to address the core issue: Zionists control everything from our media to our financial institutions to our politicians.

It’s not good enough to say it’s unfair that Macklemore or whoever is dropped. We have to say that it’s completely unacceptable that Zionists are in control. We need to say it’s totally wrong for them to debank their critics like Mint Press News, or drop movie stars like Melissa Barrera, or sack TV stars like Gary Lineker, or coerce our politicians into treating grannies in wheelchairs as terrorists, or take over TikTok to hide the truth about Israel’s war crimes.

We need to make it loud and clear that we will not let genocide supporters decide what speech is acceptable. Until we are prepared to highlight the Zionism problem, the cancellation will only continue.

This article is from Council Estate Media by Ricky, a Website promoting working class politics and anti-imperialism with over 34,000 subscribers