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\n\tLess than a week after announcing dates for his\u00a0Free Palestine Tour<\/a>, Macklemore<\/a> took to social media to announce that all three dates in Dublin, Paris, and London have \u201csold out immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Seattle rapper announced his own headlining dates following the fallout of his\u00a0removal from Ed Sheeran\u2019s stadium tour<\/a>\u00a0for voicing support of the Palestinian people onstage. \u201cI\u2019m honestly blown away,\u201d Macklemore began in his post shared on Wednesday. \u201cWe put these shows together fast and in community, believing that musicians can stand in solidarity with Palestine<\/a>, use the stage to raise funds and show what collective action can look like. When those in power try to silence our calls for liberation, art will always be a form of resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMacklmore thanked fans in Dublin, Paris, and London \u201cfor showing up the way you did.\u201d He added, \u201cThe response to these shows is another reminder of how many people across the world are standing together for a free Palestine. Lineups coming soon. Can\u2019t wait to be together.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHis Free Palestine Tour will open in Dublin on Oct. 26, followed by Paris on the 29th, and London a day later. U.S. dates will be announced in the future.<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this month, Macklemore took to the stage at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The rapper\u00a0addressed<\/a>\u00a0the thousands in the crowd. \u201cA big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine,\u201d Macklemore said. \u201cI want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them.\u201d His speech was met with cheers from the crowd while others reportedly walked out during his performance.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement later shared on Instagram<\/a>, Macklemore claimed he was dropped<\/a> from the tour after Robert Kraft \u2014 the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium \u2014 mounted a pressure campaign against Sheeran. Kraft, in his own statement, confirmed he made the decision to bar Macklemore from performing at Gillette, saying it was based on his \u201crecent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran\u2019s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n