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\n\tMacklemore<\/a> continued his support for the Palestinian people over the weekend when he dropped \u201cHind\u2019s Hall 2,\u201d the sequel to his May song of the same name<\/a> whose proceeds are aimed at the United Nations Relief and Words Agency (UNRWA), which provides assistance to Palestinian refugees. He also shouted a provocative slogan calling out the United States during a hometown Seattle show on Saturday at the Palestine Will Live Forever Festival.<\/p>\n \n\tThe original song expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people has been updated with new vocals from Gaza-bred rapper MC Abdul, Palestinian-American singer Anees, author Amer Zahr the L.A. Palestinian Kids Choir, Tiffany Wilson and friends and the Lifted! Youth Gospel Choir. In the final verse, the rapper drops a caustic couplet taking aim at Israel\u2019s nearly year-long war in Gaza sparked by the Oct. 7 raid by Hamas militants on Israel that resulted in the killing of more than 1,200 and the kidnapping of more than 250 men, women and children.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLong live the resistance if there\u2019s something to resist\/ Had enough of you motherf\u2013kers murdering little kids\/ PC for a minute, I was tryna be a bridge,\u201d the \u201cThrift Shop\u201d MC raps before lashing out at Democratic presidential candidate and current VP Kamala Harris with a warning about potentially losing the large Arab-American\/Muslim vote in Michigan if she continues to administration\u2019s support for Israel.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBut there\u2019ll never be freedom by pleading with Zionists\/ World screaming Free Palestine\/ We see the manual, we know how you colonized\u2026 Hey Kamala, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re listening\/ But stop sending money and weapons, or you ain\u2019t winning in Michigan\/ We uncommitted, and hell no we ain\u2019t switching positions\/ Because the whole world turned Palestinian,\u201d he raps.<\/p>\n \n\tThe song also features the antisemitic chant \u201cfrom the river to the sea\/ Palestine will be free,\u201d a phrase the American Jewish Committee says has been a \u201crallying cry for terrorist groups<\/a> and their sympathizers\u2026 [as well as] a common call-to-arms for pro-Palestinian activists, especially student activists on college campuses. It calls for the establishment of a State of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, erasing the State of Israel and its people.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMacklemore took to the stage with his message of solidarity with the Palestinian people and disdain for current American policy in support of Israel\u2019s war against militant group Hamas during the debut performance of \u201cHind\u2019s Hall 2\u201d at the Palestine Will Live Forever Festival<\/a> at Seward Park Amphitheatre in his hometown over the weekend.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cStraight up, say it, I\u2019m not gonna stop you,\u201d Macklemore, 41, says in fan video from the show after the crowd shouts unheard slogans at him. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna stop you\u2026 yeah, f\u2013k America<\/a>,\u201d he adds to loud cheers from the audience, later adding \u201cit\u2019s a genocide and it has been since 1948\u201d in reference to the year the state of Israel was established. The original \u201cHind\u2019s Hall\u201d and its sequel were named in honor of a young girl named Hind Rajab who was killed in Gaza in a shooting Palestinians have blamed on Israeli forces.<\/p>\n \n\tAt press time a spokesperson for Macklemore had not returned Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for comment on his statement at the Seattle show.<\/p>\n \n\tLast month, the rapper canceled a planned show<\/a> in Dubai on Oct. 4 over the UAE\u2019s role in support of the RSF, one of the warring parties in the country\u2019s devastating civil war.<\/p>\n \n\tListen to \u201cHind\u2019s Hall 2\u201d below.<\/p>\n