Pink Responds To Backlash Over Sharing Anti-Macklemore Post About Israel

Pink has been catching heat after resharing an Instagram post that criticized Macklemore's pro-Palestine performance at Ed Sheeran's concert. Today, the pop singer made a lengthy statement responding to the backlash, saying that "Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations" but "Hamas is a terrorist organization."In the statement, Pink says she's always stood up for her beliefs, and "stood with gay kids before it was fashionable and with trans kids now, when it isn’t, and with their families, and I handed out the books that got banned, and you know I got called every name there is, and I’d do all of it again tomorrow.""Something has changed in this country, and I can read it in my own comments," she writes. "'From the river to the sea.' 'Zionist,' spat like it’s a slur, by people who couldn’t tell you the details of what I believe, because I hadn’t told them yet. I wasn’t asked. I was told. I don’t think most of them hate Jews. I think somebody handed them a story where the Jew who won’t apologize for existing must be the villain, and they’ve been putting words in my mouth ever since."Read the full statement below.I’ve been quiet in my own words f...