ED Sheeran has broken down in tears onstage as he bowed to pressure and apologised over a Palestine row.
The singer broke his silence onstage after Macklemore was pulled from his tour and his own band quit.
Singer Ed Sheeran speaks on stage as he addresses a controversy over Macklemore being pulled from the tour Credit: Reuters
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near Sheeran’s show Credit: Reuters
Protestors mounted a huge demo outside his Philadelphia gig at the Lincoln Financial Field.
Sheeran said he had questioned whether he “wanted to be an artist at all” after the huge row.
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The singer-songwriter said onstage last night: “I’ve had to take, and make, difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes and I’m so, so sorry for them.
“I don’t want to disappoint fans, and I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician, but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.”
He said he had tried not to be a “political commentator” because he wanted his music to be about “unity”.
But after days of increased pressure threatening the future of his US tour Loop, the singer said: “I cannot hide how I feel about it anymore.”
“What happened in Israel and at the Nova music festival on October 7 was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
“What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, children’s lives.
“And the systemic injustice we are seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”
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