“I may disagree with Macklemore’s advocacy for Palestine, and however uncomfortable it may make me feel, it’s not hate speech,” said Jonathan Jacoby, president of the Nexus Project, a study group that analyzes antisemitism. “Labeling it hate speech or labeling it antisemitism makes it much more difficult to confront antisemitism, and makes it much more difficult to have a debate and to do any education around the issues.”
