Macklemore says that nine major US arenas have refused to host his Free Palestine fundraising tour, calling out “intimidation, manipulation and suppression” tactics.

In an Instagram post , the rapper says that he hoped to bring the tour to the US, but nine major arenas refused to host the event, including New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’s Crypto.com arena and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

Last month, Macklemore brought the Free Palestine tour to Dublin, London and Paris in a show praised by the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis as “a triumph”. The shows came in the wake of Ed Sheeran dropping the rapper from his US tour after he made an onstage speech in support of Palestine.

“From the beginning, our plan was to bring this tour home to the US,” Macklemore wrote.…