All of Ed Sheeran’s support acts quit US tour over Macklemore Palestine row

All of the support acts for Ed Sheeran's US tour have quit after a rapper was dropped from the setlist over his pro-Palestine views. Beoga, the Irish folk band that collaborated on Sheeran's hit Galway Girl, are among four acts that have refused to continue on the tour in solidarity with Macklemore, who was dropped after calling for a "free Palestine". In a statement, Beoga said that Macklemore had been silenced by "Zionist lobbies" and that the group believed in "dialogue as a means of progressing the plight of the Palestinian people". Macklemore, real name Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, was dropped...