A lot has been said about Macklemore being kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour, and now, Dolly Parton's sister, Stella, has come to the rapper's defense.

Parton took to X, formerly Twitter, to show her support of Macklemore. She was “sounding the alarm,” calling it “dire” if artists are being removed from a tour for “simply calling out genocide in Gaza.

“I’m here to sound the alarm again today as I’ve been doing since 2016,” she wrote. “We are in a dire situation when a performer is pulled from a tour for simply calling out genocide in Gaza.”

Macklemore's “Free Palestine” comments got him removed from Ed Sheeran's tour

During Macklemore's opening sets on Sheeran's Loop Tour shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sep. 4 and 5, he made a political speech, declaring “Free Palestine.”

This caused a stir, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft allegedly called Sheeran, presenting him with an “ultimatum.” Kraft wasn't going to let Macklemore perform at Gillette Stadium, and other stadium owners felt the same way. They weren't going to let Sheeran perform in their venues if he kept Macklemore on the marquee.

In turn, Macklemore was dropped from the tour. Kraft explained the decision, claiming that he didn't want to “provide a platform for hate speech.” He also said he was not “diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf.”

“Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech,” Kraft said. “Based on Macklemore's recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran's 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, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line.”