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With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians’ right to freedom, dignity, and safety in their own homeland.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists, and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free.
That is where my focus will remain. I will continue to stand with the Palestinian people and their fight for liberation.
When the news cycle moves on, which it will, don’t move with it.
Free Palestine.
Source: His insta
Change will not happen alone. Even millionaire celebrities have very little power relative to the Putins, Netanyahus, Xis, Bezos’ and Musks of the world. Until something unites large numbers of us in common cause, with the means to convince us to become and remain active participants in the solutions, individual actions like this are waves on the beach and we don’t have time to wait a thousand years for those small waves to make a difference. We need that energy of change condensed into a smaller timeframe and focused on specific purpose.
As long as you, reading this, remain absent from the effort, you are more subject to whims of the Putins, Netanyahus, Xi’s, Bezos’ and Musks of the world. Find a way to get and remain involved in some kind of positive change in the world around you. Your dreams of a better world require you to chase them, they will never chase you.