Pop star Pink broke her silence Friday over the backlash she received for amplifying calls for Macklemore to be dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour, saying in a lengthy social media statement that she was reacting to the rapper’s onstage remarks to Jewish concertgoers rather than his pro-Palestinian message itself.

“Of course I don’t speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have. What I said in October 2023 is still exactly what I believe: Hamas is a terrorist organization,” she wrote.