Does Macklemore really want to “Save Gaza” or save his own lame career from the dungheap of history? Yesterday, the self-styled canceled rapper – he’s bloody noisy for someone who’s been silenced – announced that he’s going on tour. It’s called the “Free Palestine” tour. Of course it is. There’s no speedier shortcut to the moral high ground for a has-been half-celeb than on the Gaza bandwagon. 

Macklemore became the Palestine movement’s holiest martyr when he was dumped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after yelping “Free Palestine” at 90,000 Sheeran fans in New Jersey. Ivy League leftists idolize him. He’s the patron saint of the keffiyeh cult. “He’s been crucified by the Epstein classes!”, cried every lunatic on the internet. And now he’s milking his secular beatification by taking his Israelphobia on the road.

It will kick off in late October. The first stop is Dublin. Good choice – Ireland has succumbed like a Victorian child with TB to the moral fever of Israel-hate. Brace yourself for a sea of keffiyehs and tricolor balaclavas as........

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