Macklemore supported the Palestinians and the protesting students. Biden has blood on his hands, he says

As the AFP agency reminds, protests against the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, which is a response to the attacks of the Palestinian terrorist movement Hamas on October 7 last year, have been taking place on the campuses of some American universities for weeks. American students call for a ceasefire and criticize the US government for supporting Israel. Tensions flared after Columbia University officials called the police on students who camped out in the middle of the Manhattan campus and refused to leave. Across the US, over 2,000 people were arrested in connection with the riots.

“If there are students camping on the lawn / And if occupying the campus is illegal / If you’re calling the police for that too / So how do you define genocide?” raps Macklemore in the new track https://twitter.com/macklemore/status/1787616471738368099. Its name refers to a Columbia University building that students recently occupied and renamed after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza.

The 40-year-old American rapper and winner of four Grammy Awards for his collaboration with producer Ryan Lewis believes that Israel is an “apartheid state maintaining a violent history of occupation that has been repeated for the last 75 years” in order to “maintain a system of white supremacy”.

He styles himself as someone who has “seen the truth” as he raps here. “We saw the rubble / The buildings, the mothers, the children / All the men you killed / And we see how you try to twist it now / About who has the right to defend and who has the right to resist / It’s always been dollars and the color of your skin,” Macklemore thinks. “They tell us that being anti-Zionist means being anti-Semitic / And yet I saw our Jewish brothers and sisters / How they are shouting in solidarity with us: for a free Palestine,” he claims, for example.

Hit writer from 2012, whose songs have over 13 billion plays on the Internet and topped the charts in many countries, according to the AFP agency, he has been politically engaged before. For example, he supported the LGBT movement or Black Lives Matter.

In the new song, he also reproaches his colleagues in the music industry for remaining silent and not condemning Israel. In connection with the current protests, he quotes a track by the American rap group NWA from 1988. “When I was seven, they taught me something / What was it? I already know: fuck the police,” Macklemore challenges.

The proceeds from the sale of his composition, which uses, among other things, a sample of the song Ana La Habibi by the Lebanese singer Fajrúz, the musician will send to the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East.

Back in November, Macklemore was one of the speakers at the pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, where he condemned the attack on Israel by the terrorist movement Hamas, but called the retaliatory operation by the Jewish state a “genocide” of the Palestinians, Pitchfork.com adds.

The British newspaper Guardian recalls that Macklemore previously supported the American Democrats. In 2016, he appeared on an MTV show with then-President Barack Obama, alongside whom he warned against the use of addictive opioids and spoke out against Donald Trump at concerts.

The day after he was elected president in 2016, he released the track Wednesday Morning where he promised to defy Trump for the next four years.

More than 10 million people follow the musician on Instagram and Facebook alone.

The fact that it is now indirectly discouraging them from electing Joe Biden in the November presidential election may add to the worries of the Democrats, who, among other things, are hoping for the support of pop stars, including the singer Taylor Swift, in their candidate’s fight against Donald Trump.

Macklemore also performed three times in the Czech Republic. In 2012, he was a guest of Hip Hop Kemp with Ryan Lewis, six years later he presented himself in Panenské Týnec, where he completed the program of the Aerodrome show. Subsequently, he was supposed to be the main star of the Metronome festival in Prague, but it was not held due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Last year, Macklemore came to the Colors of Ostrava festival for the third time and for the last time. “There are such beautiful people here,” he praised the audience there.

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