Ed Sheeran CRIES… Then Apologizes For Apologizing.

The Jimmy Dore Show

The episode features Jimmy Dore and Kurt Metzary critiquing Ed Sheeran's recent concert statements regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict,

Key takeaways

• Ed Sheeran was criticized for using 'unity' as a rhetorical shield to avoid addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
• Recent polling indicates a 67-point swing in net favorability for Israel within the US electorate.

Main topics

• Ed Sheeran's Gaza comments
• Israel-Palestine conflict history

Notable quotes

He wants his music to be about unity, not division.

Conclusion

The episode provides a heavy critique of celebrity neutrality and poli

Transcript preview

Speaker 5 (0:02) October 10th in Los Angeles, Studio City, live celebrity panel show. October 16th, Rutherford, New Jersey. October 17th, Atlantic City, New Jersey. And then in November, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets. Speaker 5 (0:37) Ed Sheeran did his concert. And it's nice to see he dresses up. I Speaker 3 (0:43) don't understand. If you go to see Ed Sheeran, just wear like a garbage bag and eat slop. Speaker 5 (0:52) I don't understand why people don't like to look nice anymore. It's like, Ed, are you going out to throw the football around with your friends? You're going to wash your car later? What are you doing? Speaker 3 (1:03) Something about this feels racist. Speaker 5 (1:05) Philip Lewis tweeted out, Ed Sheeran opened solo concert with comments about Gaza, says what's happening is a catastrophic and unjustifiable. Speaker 3 (1:14) What is happening, Ed? I'd like to put a name on it. So, Speaker 5 (1:17) yeah, right? Is it a genocide? He doesn't say that. Speaker 3 (1:20) This Speaker 5 (1:20) is what he says. Speaker 6 (1:21) Now, I want to address the question of where I stand in the situation in Israel and Palestine and whether my doing this concert here tonight implies where I stand. I have tried in my career not to be a political commentator of any kind because I want my music shows to be about unity, not division. Speaker 5 (1:39) He wants his music to be about unity, not division. You know unity? With the IDF and the people committing a genocide in the Greater Israel Project, the people who are targeting children, ethnically cleansing Gaza, stealing more land from the native people who live there, the actual Semites, you know, the Palestinians, the Jews there are not the Semites. They're Ashkenazi Eastern Europeans. Speaker 3 (2:04) Ashkenazi. You can't spell Ashkenazi without Nazi. Don't forget that. Okay. So Speaker 5 (2:09) he's calling for unity. piece of area. Speaker 5 (2:16) Not politics. I don't want to get into politics. You know, the slaughter of children. It's politics. He acts like we're fighting over school closings or something. Speaker 3 (2:30) Why don't you go, hey, look, I know there's a controversy. Yes, I just got a new haircut. You're right. Also, I'm not in control of anything I do or say. I'm an obvious puppet, and so are you if you enjoy my shit music. Speaker 5 (2:41) Okay, here we go. Speaker 6 (2:44) But this is a humanitarian issue. I cannot hide how I feel. Speaker 5 (2:49) It is a humanitarian. He can't hide. He can't hide how he feels. Well, how does he feel? Let's see. What happened Speaker 6 (2:57) in Israel and in the No Music Festival on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain. Speaker 5 (3:04) So he starts the story on October 7th. He doesn't start the story with the Nakba in 1948. He doesn't start the story with the Balfour Declaration, which England gave land that wasn't theirs to Rothschilds. Speaker 3 (3:22) Jimmy, that's anti-Semitic to say it's a colonial project, Israel. And I know because I took the JSC anti-Semitism test with Rabbi Dave Smith. Speaker 5 (3:29) Dave Smith failed it. And so he starts it there as if this is when that started. That's not when it started. It started with the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the slaughter at grape of the people. 750,000 Palestinians. That's when it started. And then, of course, they've been slaughtering them ever since. And then in 2006, they just decided to turn it into the world's largest open air concentration camp in the world. Well, Speaker 3 (3:58) hey, Jimmy, let's start it there. Why not? But Benjamin Netanyahu caused that himself. It's a false flag. That's if you want to start it there. And the tragedy of the compound of Jewish people. Well, your leader set that up and had the IDF tell people to have a rave next to the concentration camp on purpose because those are Speaker 5 (4:14) the Speaker 3 (4:14) liberal Jews. And extended Speaker 5 (4:16) the rave an extra day. Did you know that? So when Hamas attacked, there's a military base there. They thought they were attacking a military base, but the IDF had, Benjamin Netanyahu, had extended that music festival an extra day. It was supposed to end on the 6th, and their attack was for the 7th. Netanyahu knew that, so they extended it. No kidding. So again, this was all a setup so that they could, as Charlie Kirk called it out. on uh many times not only on pbd show but he said it's they're going to use this to ethnically cleanse gaza and that's exactly what they've done Speaker 3 (4:53) You know, calling it genocide, I wasn't comfortable with that. I remember, how many years ago is it now? Two? I don't Speaker 5 (4:58) know. Speaker 3 (4:58) It feels like a while. But I remember I was like, Pasta was hosting, and I'm like, all right. I was saying ethnic cleansing instead of genocide because I'm like, I don't know. I think you're not supposed to say genocide. Then I looked up what genocide is. It's a definition. The victims of the Holocaust made up. Yeah. And good for them coming up with a word for it. It's your word you made, guys. It applies to you now. Yes. Sorry. Speaker 6 (5:19) 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're seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked. I am already speaking to people across the spectrum to work out how to make a contribution that helps victims in these terrible times. Speaker 5 (5:47) Isn't it great how he reads? Because, of course, this was written by his PR team and his lawyers, and he's reading it. Speaker 2 (5:53) It's coming from his heart. So Speaker 5 (5:54) it's really coming from his heart. Did Speaker 3 (5:56) he say there shouldn't be politics? Because I do not know enough. I Speaker 5 (5:59) do not know enough. Speaker 3 (6:01) Why are you talking then? Speaker 5 (6:02) Why Speaker 3 (6:02) did you fire McElmore then? Speaker 5 (6:03) Yeah, why'd you fire Malcolm R. If you don't know enough about it. Exactly. So he tried to hire Macklemore so he could have it both ways. Hey, look, I'm giving the stage to this guy who's saying free Palestine. I don't have to. So he's trying it. And now he can. Okay, let's keep going. I Speaker 6 (6:19) honestly am so grateful that you're here. Sorry for me. Speaker 5 (6:23) Oh. Speaker 6 (6:32) This concert is still in place. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is Speaker 5 (6:36) welcome, including IDF soldiers who grape women and men. Yeah, Speaker 3 (6:44) women. They're doing it to the men and riding for the right to Speaker 5 (6:46) do so. That's right. And they use dogs to do it, too. Everybody's welcome. The dogs who are graping, the guys who have the dogs who are graping, all the grapers. Speaker 6 (7:01) agree with on everything, that they can all agree on singing these songs. Speaker 5 (7:06) Oh! Speaker 6 (7:08) And these songs are about love, hope, and unity. Speaker 5 (7:18) What? We love hoping you're Ed Sheeran, the living example of a day late and a dollar short. Speaker 5 (7:26) He's more than just a dollar short. I'll put it that way. So Philip Lewis, when he tweeted that out, Ed Sheeran opened solo concert with comments about Gaza. Says what's happening? And I said, how much did they pay you to tweet this? Seriously, seven grand? And there's some more reactions to him. Him saying conflict and both sides is all you need to know on where he stands. You don't have to be a parrot. When it comes from the heart, he's reading that from a teleprompter. Dude is actually reading from a teleprompter. He just can't stand there and say what's happening in Gaza is horrible without having someone write it for him, feed him the words, and double check it. We've never seen this level of shameless, soulless behavior before. Speaker 3 (8:10) Is he allowed to say Epstein was horrible? I bet not, since his owner was a good buddy of Epstein, right? Speaker 5 (8:15) And by the way, Kurt, the love and unity only applies to everyone agreeing with Zionism, right? Everyone else can burn in boiling feces along with Jesus. But other than that, this is all about togetherness. This one, you know, both sides, both sides are bad, Kurt. See both sides. So the guys in the tank and the little kid is Speaker 3 (8:33) really weird because I know you shouldn't be saying that about, you know, the World War Two bad guys. I wouldn't say to them like, hey, yeah, both sides have some points. I wouldn't say something like that. It is equally Speaker 5 (8:45) tragic, though, Kurt, what happened to the paint job on the Israeli tank when the running kid hit it with the rock. And what the tank crew will do to that kid is inexcusable, except for the free pass you give them during your concert. Speaker 3 (8:57) Oh, the things they are doing, this is just stuff we know about what they're doing. I found out recently and watching X-Minister Boys because we had Alex Jones on talking about it. They were up to some things that are just nightmarish because they can do whatever they want. So what do you think violent psychopaths do when they have no supervision? What do you see in America? What do you think they do in Israel? What do Speaker 5 (9:17) you think they do there? So here, now he cries. So now it's the end of the concert and he's going to cry and then he's going to apologize for his apology. So that was his opening statement. So now he literally is going to apologize for his apology. Let's watch. Look, he's crying. Crying about loss of money. Speaker 5 (9:55) And by the way, I don't know enough about music, but other people do. I was watching Due Dissonance, and they were talking about how no one's going to remember this guy's music in 20 years. There's lots of people just as talented as him, but just like with all things in show business, they propped him up for whatever reason, and now you get him jammed down your throat, and he becomes a star. Speaker 3 (10:17) It's pop music. All pop music is pure garbage that I don't want to say who puts it out there, but they're Zionists. Speaker 6 (10:31) The world is a scary place right now. America is a scary place right now. This gives hope. This gives hope. Thank you so much, Philadelphia. Thank you so much. Speaker 5 (10:43) This what gives me hope is people buying my tickets at an extreme discount. That gives me hope. Forty one dollars. Forty one bucks. Did you know that? Yeah. Speaker 3 (10:53) So he got who got word to him that he bet. First of all, to do that, why would he apologize for his? Well, let's let's Speaker 5 (10:59) watch it. Let's watch it. Then we'll comment on it. He's going to. I Speaker 6 (11:03) hope you have fun. The one thing that I would like to apologize for. It's the first bit of the show where it wasn't about music and I had to talk and I understand that people have children here and I understand the families didn't buy a ticket to hear that first bit of the show but that was something I felt like I needed to say. I felt there was a lot of questions that I needed to answer. Speaker 6 (11:28) So to all the parents there who brought their kids here tonight, thank you so much for bringing them. And I do apologize for the curse to the show. My shows are about this. They're about unity. They're about love. They're about family. They're about people. As we said, people coming together that don't know each other, that have different beliefs. And you know, you're jumping around like maniacs with each other and having fun. And I will never stop doing this. I will never stop doing this. I love doing this so much. Speaker 5 (11:56) Yeah, so people coming, some people think it's good to slaughter children because little babies will grow up to be terrorists and people who don't want to slaughter children. They all can come together. Speaker 3 (12:07) Hey, I've got kids at this concert. Don't say it's wrong to kill kids in front of my kids. Yeah, don't say it's wrong to kill kids in front of my kids. Speaker 5 (12:15) How dare you? If I were him, I would sue the shit out of my managers for putting me in this situation, right? He's being effed harder than algebra. Speaker 3 (12:28) Well, somebody pops out like that's a machine that has a bunch of like, and so that guy, I forget the creepy guy that owns him, but the sports owner guy. Robert Kraft. Yeah, James Lee picked out all the stuff out of it. So this dude's like a slave of some. oligarchs. Yeah. More so than Macklemore. Yes. Speaker 5 (12:47) More so. I like this cartoon. In this situation, you really find out who your friends are. Look at this. Bebe now, take me into your loving arms. I think it should be the other way around. Bebe always has your back. Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind every weak man is Bebe Netanyahu, riding him