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Pink shows the antisemitic haters, Macklemore, and Ed Sheeran- that it doesn't have to be that hard to be a mentch.

4 days ago
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She said about Macklemore performing his disgusting "Free Palestine" performance -- "Awful."

She commented under a post that said, "Jewish fans bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran sing last night in NJ, not to be ambushed by Macklemore's anti-Israel propaganda. Instead, Macklemore walked onstage in a keffiyeh, shouted "Free Palestine," accused Israel of a false "genocide," and turned a mainstream event into a political nightmare against the Jewish state. Concertgoers are owed apologies and refunds."

And I have to say, after watching the reaction to my own post about this over the last day, Pink’s reaction feels almost pathetically revolutionary.

Because apparently we have reached the point where saying maybe Jews and Israelis shouldn’t be unexpectedly subjected to accusations of genocide while sitting inside a stadium they paid hundreds of dollars to enter is enough to earn you an avalanche of abuse.

I have now been told that Jews deserved to feel unsafe.

That Israelis should “cry harder.”

That if “Zios” are unhappy, someone must be doing something right.

That Israelis are N*zis.

That I support r*pe and m*rder.

That people are glad Jewish fans felt sick.

And all of this, naturally, in the name of humanity.

I don't need another celebrity to validate what I know.

And part of what has made this moment so poisonous is the way “Free Palestine” rhetoric has been allowed to smuggle in an entire architecture of lies beneath a slogan that sounds compassionate.

Israel is reduced to a caricature of pure evil.

A war against Hamas becomes “gen*cide.”

Israeli self-defense becomes “mass m*rder.”

Jewish history, Jewish indigeneity, October 7, the h*stages, H*mas, terr*rism, rockets, decades of failed peace efforts - all of it is flattened or erased because it "complicates the story." "Doesn't fit the narrative of victimhood" unless it's being termed "resistance."

And once people absorb the twisted version of the story deeply enough, cruelty toward Israelis and Zionist Jews begins to feel righteous.

Mocking their fear, cheering their humiliation.

Telling them they deserve to feel unsafe feels right.

That is the real danger of propaganda.

It does not only convince people of things that are false.

It changes what they believe they are morally permitted to do to the people cast as villains.

One of the most dangerous things about antisemitism is not only that it spreads.

It is that it becomes ambient.

It becomes part of the scenery.

People hear the rhetoric and stop hearing how extreme it is.

They watch a crowd cheer and assume the crowd must be right.

They watch Jews recoil and decide the Jews must be the problem.

That is how a moral boundary disappears: not all at once, but through repetition, applause, mockery, and the gradual loss of shame.

Pink did not do anything extraordinary.

She just refused to participate in the normalization.

Apparently, in 2026, that is enough to stand out.

It shouldn't be this hard.

 
 
 

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