Pink admits loneliness after speaking against Macklemore
Pink slammed Macklemore for his previous political speech at Ed Sheeran’s concert
Pink claims she is feeling “lonely” after slamming Macklemore for being pro-Palestine.
The Thrift Shop singer hit headlines when he took to the stage to open Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium last week and told the crowd, “One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour was because I wanted to stand up here on stages in stadiums across America and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine. I said, Free Palestine!”
“I want those words to be loud and clear so that people from Gaza, all the way to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten them,” he added.
While she didn’t speak out directly, Pink shared an Instagram Story from StopAntisemitism slamming Macklemore’s comments.
And, over one week later, Pink took to Instagram to share her thoughts directly.
She wrote, “I’ve been quiet in my own words for a week, which you know isn’t like me. So here they are.”
“Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show. It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them. Then the comments came, and I did what I do when I’m hurt, which is post snarky memes and act like I’m fine,” the iconic singer admitted.
She continued, “That’s on me. A repost isn’t a statement, and a meme isn’t a spine. Social media makes all of us cheap and fast, and we all know it. But I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it.”
“I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it. And this week a whole lot of people decided what I believe without asking me, without checking a single thing I’ve ever said or done, because a repost and the word “Jew” were apparently enough to fill in the rest. But let me fill it in... myself,” Pink said in her clarification.
“Of course, I don’t speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have. What I said in October 2023 is still exactly what I believe: Hamas is a terrorist organization. Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations.”
“Protecting innocent life comes first, everywhere, and nobody should ever celebrate the death of a child. Anybody’s child. I’ve spent a decade as a UNICEF ambassador for kids who didn’t choose the country or the war they were born into, and I have grieved every one of them, on both sides of that fence. I didn’t do it from behind a screen; I went to those children and held them. I’m not going to litigate a complex war in an Instagram caption, and I’m not going to recite anybody’s slogan to earn back a follower,” the So What singer expressed.
“And now I'm standing up for my own people, and I thought I knew going in how lonely that would be. And it's lonelier than that. But I'm doing it anyway,” Pink said in her lengthy message.
Towards the conclusion she wrote, “It's Friday. For working people who have more to worry about than pop stars and pile-ons, it's the end of a hard week. It's also the 25th anniversary of September 11th, and my prayers are with the innocent souls we lost that morning. And at sundown, for Jews, it's Rosh Hashanah, our New Year.
“Now I'm going to go make dinner for my kids, light the candles, dip some apples in honey, pour a glass of wine and be full of gratitude. That's my tradition. It also happens to be a Jewish one (sic),” Pink concluded as she revealed a Jewish tradition she likes to follow at dinner.
