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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Fans cheered as British pop star Ed Sheeran took the stage in Philadelphia last night.
Before the concert began, Sheeran addressed the ongoing controversy surrounding the removal of McLemore from the tour.
The rapper was dropped from the opening act after shouting Free Palestine during a concert in New Jersey this month.
What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival on October
7th 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.
Demonstrators gathered outside of the stadium to protest the performance.
College student Adi Chadubede was among them.
Yes, Ed Sheeran had power here.
Ed Sheeran could have kept Macklemore on this tour.
But the silencing of pro-Palestine speech is not new.
And the silencing of pro-Palestine speech doesn't affect the celebrities.
It affects the people of this city.
It affects the people of this country who are willing to give their lives to talk about Palestine.