Pakistan, Sept. 18 -- Rapper Macklemore announced on Thursday he will be donating the net earnings from his tour with Ed Sheeran, a sum of $1 million, to six Palestinian organisations.

Macklemore was dropped from Sheeran's Loop tour on Monday after he delivered a speech calling for a free Palestine earlier this month. The decision sparked all of Sheeran's other supporting acts to withdraw in solidarity with the rapper on Tuesday.

In an Instagram post on Thursday, Macklemore said he wanted to shift the conversation back to where it was supposed to be, "to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation and still fighting for their freedom".

He invited billionaire Robert Kraft to match his donati...