{"id":681,"date":"2026-09-20T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/?p=681"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:36:11","slug":"ed-sheeran-weeps-on-stage-says-israels-actions-in-gaza-unjustifiable-in-emotional-first-speech-since-macklemore-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran weeps on stage, says Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza \u2018unjustifiable\u2019 in emotional first speech since Macklemore fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crooner Ed Sheeran called Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza \u201cunjustifiable\u201d as he wept and broke his silence during his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/19\/us-news\/ed-sheeran-set-to-return-to-stage-in-philadelphia-for-1st-time-since-macklemore-was-cut\/\">first concert since booting rapper Macklemore<\/a>&nbsp;from his tour for tirades against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve never wanted to be an activist musician, but this put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet,\u201d Sheeran told the Philly crowd of concertgoers Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheeran spoke multiple times about the controversy during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/19\/entertainment\/protesters-gather-in-philly-ahead-of-ed-sheerans-first-concert-since-mackelmore-kicked-off-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday night\u2019s show at Lincoln Financial Field<\/a>,&nbsp;growing progressively more upset as the night wore on and eventually telling fans it had been one of the \u201cworst weeks of his life\u201d and that \u201cI really didn\u2019t know whether I\u2019d be even get on stage again, whether I wanted to be an artist at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">j<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooner Ed Sheeran called Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza \u201cunjustifiable\u201d as he wept and broke his silence during his&nbsp;first concert since booting rapper Macklemore&nbsp;from his tour for tirades against the Jewish state. \u201cI\u2019ve never wanted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailyflashnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}