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Rapper Macklemore Releases Video to 5.2 Million People Slandering Israel
A photo of Mackelmore wearing a costume in 2014 that was criticized as being antisemitic. Photo: screenshot.
On May 6, Yom HaShoah, American rapper Macklemore once again decided to come for the Jewish people. His 2014 costume of a caricatured Orthodox Jew was not enough. This time, he chose to share with his 5.2 million followers (almost one-third of the total number of Jews in the world) a nearly three minute propaganda song. The song, titled “Hind Hall,” is filled with inaccuracies and anti-Jewish tropes in grotesque forms.
Over a rap beat, the opening shot of the music video displays a Palestinian flag-waver in head to toe in black, standing on a roof.
Within the first four sentences, Macklemore asks, “What is the problem about divesting and wanting peace?” The answer is straightforward. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is not about peace, as explained by Palestinian Human Rights and Peace Activist Bassem Eid.
The BDS movement ignores the realities on the ground, and is really about de-legitimizing and destroying the State of Israel in any recognizable form. BDS leaders themselves have said that their goal is to destroy Israel.
After a repetitive chant of “block the barricade until Palestine is free,” a slogan used to declare the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, the rapper declares, “f**k the police” for stopping the violence on campus and the harassment and assault of Jewish students by Palestinian protesters.
Deeply upsetting graphics of war-torn children are featured throughout the video. Not once does Macklemore mention the Israeli children murdered by Hamas on October 7 — or in the decades before by Palestinians who are viewed as heroes by their government. He also ignores Hamas’ role in the perpetration of violence against Gazans. Hamas sacrifices Gazan civilians, uses them as human shields, and buries its infrastructure in civilian areas. At the beginning of the war, Hamas threatened Gazans not to leave areas of fighting. And if October 7 had not happened, there would be no war in Gaza right now.
The Irish-raised Catholic wordsmith says that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism by tokenizing parasitic-minded anti-Zionist Jews for “finally cutting ties with a state” relying “on an apartheid system.” According to a 2021 Pew study, 8-in-10 Jews feel an intrinsic connection to Israel. Macklemore is using anti-Zionism as a litmus test for who is a good Jew — and the only Jews he supports are a tiny minority.
It’s also completely false to claim Israel is an apartheid state.
In addition to calling Israel an apartheid state, he labels Israelis as “colonizers” consistently in the song. According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, using this falsehood is antisemitic, as the rhetoric denies the Jewish connection to the ancestral homeland of Israel.
Subsequently, he mentions how Israel is “bombing all the mosques,” which is not only a lie, but also ignores that Hamas has used some mosques as hideouts. Why the dishonesty? Additionally, proceeds from the song are going to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has credible ties to promoting terrorist activity.
The cherry-picked imagery and out-of-context claims feel deliberate throughout the music video. As a musician, he has great power and influence, no matter how irrelevant he seems. His slander against the Jewish State will cause true and irreparable damage — but that’s exactly his goal.
Listen to the propaganda piece for yourself here.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.