The American rapper Macklemore will perform a tour called “Free Palestine”, with other artists, which already includes dates in Dublin, Paris and London, and whose recipes revert to organisations supporting the Palestinian people, was announced today.
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24/09/2026
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Lusa
A “Free Palestine” (“Free Palestine” in Portuguese) tour of “Macklemore and friends” was announced today on the rapper’s social networks, which gained prominence in recent weeks by being away from the tour of singer Ed Sheeran in the United States, after calling on stage for the liberation of Palestine, something that he has done over the last few years in several countries, including Portugal in 2024, during a performance in Rock in Rio Lisboa.
The "Free Palestine Tour" now includes dates in Dublin on October 26, Paris on October 29, and London on October 30, soon being announced dates in the United States, as well as the names of the artists who will join the tour.
“ All revenues will revert to organisations supporting the Palestinian people and the [pro-Palestinian] movement,” reads in the publication.
In the text accompanying the announcement, Macklemore states that “these past few weeks have shown something, that something has changed in the last three years”.
The most recent phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which lasts three years, was triggered by attacks led by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement on October 7, 2023, in southern Israel, which caused about 1,200 deaths and more than two hundred hostages.
Since then, in the retaliation by Israel, more than 73,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip and almost 180,000 have been injured, from a population of about two million people, and there is still to be a record of corpses among the rubble and in areas occupied by Israel, according to the most recent assessment by the authorities of that territory.
Macklemore considers that, since 2023, “there has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of multimillionaires who try to censor this appeal and what to expect from artists at this time”.
The rapper argues that in 2026, “no longer can anyone remain apolitical during genocide.”.
“ People are asking artists to position themselves, to inform themselves and be in community. Let them use the stage for more than just entertainment. To oppose when the call for a Free Palestine is received with attempts to silence it,” he said.
Ed Sheeran claimed that Macklemore's removal from the remaining dates of his tour in the United States was imposed by tour promoters, pressured by the owners of some of the locations for which concerts were scheduled, one of which was businessman Robert Kraft.
The DA claimed that if Macklemore stayed on the poster, the whole tour would have to be canceled.
For Macklemore, what happened to him “is bigger than an artist or a stage”: “when the multimillion-dollar class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to be heard, everyone should be alert.”.
“ I spent the last week contacting artists who demonstrated and used their platforms to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people, regardless of the consequences. [...] Because of the speed with which this has all taken place, many of the conversations, agendas and details are still being settled. But this is a moment of impulse, and there is work to do,” says the rapper.