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Of course Ed Sheeran's Irish band, Beoga, quit on him after he dropped Macklemore for saying "Free Palestine"! Irish musicians are at the forefront of speaking out against the genocide of Palestine. We covered this here: www.theflytrapmedia.com/censorship-o...

like…what did expect Irish artists especially to do? Irish folk know about some brutal apartheid shit and they ain’t exactly shy about it

I promise I don't mean this book rec as a well akshually. It's more me observing that lots of Irish people do and have aligned themselves with gross right wingerey. It just makes Sheeran's "not taking sides" look more craven because does he want to not-take-sides his way into a Nazi bar situation?

It's fully possible for him to do that at home. He should know this! It also makes the moral courage of Beoga more noteworthy. Anyway. This is a good book. www.bloomsbury.com/us/burn-them...

Among other things it tells you all about how Lord Haw Haw (pro Nazi Irish radio voice in WWII) was slashed in the face by a member of Cumann mBan, the IRA's women's auxiliary. That was a satisfying bit of history to learn!