P!NK Responds to Backlash Over Criticism of Macklemore’s Pro-Palestine Remarks

P!NK has responded to backlash over her criticism of Macklemore’s recent onstage remarks calling for a free Palestine, claiming that resharing a post from the advocacy group StopAntisemitism was not tantamount to a statement. Criticizing perceived assumptions that a “Jew who won’t apologize for existing must be the villain,” the artist said that “protecting innocent life comes first” while pointing to her experience as a UNICEF ambassador. “Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show. It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them,” she wrote in a lengthy Instagram statement. “Then the comments came, and I did what I do when I’m hurt, which is post snarky memes and act like I’m fine. That’s on me. A repost isn’t a statement, and a meme isn’t a spine. Social media makes all of us cheap and fast, and we all know it. But I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it.” She continued, “I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it… Of course I don’t speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have. What I said in October 2023 is...