The Bleachers frontman said Sheeran should've canceled his tour instead of bowing to a pressure campaign over Macklemore's Israel-Gaza comments

Jack Antonoff said Ed Sheeran should have just canceled “the whole fucking tour” instead of caving to pressure to boot Macklemore over the rapper’s comments on the Israel-Gaza war.

Sheeran “missed a massive, beautiful opportunity there,” Antonoff told The Guardian in a new interview. “Just cancel the whole fucking tour, then play for free outside each venue, raise a bunch of money, rather than let a fucking billionaire tell you what to do.”

In September, Macklemore was dropped from the North American leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour after the owners of several stadiums said he would not be allowed to perform at their venues.…