Ed Sheeran opened a concert Saturday with comments about Gaza after controversy swirled around his tour and supporting acts withdrew in solidarity with opener Macklemore, who was dropped after making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at an earlier show. Sheeran began the concert alone on stage with no opener, but was joined by other musicians later in the show. Sheeran said he wants his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics. But he said that while the attacks in Israel of 7 October, 2023, were horrific, what is happening in Gaza “catastrophic and unjustifiable” and slammed it as “disproportionate”.
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