Ed Sheeran just feels like the definition of an "industry plant". His utter obliviousness to the moral & political commitments of his co-performancers is part of the evidence of it, I think. Ed has made it as far as he has by always kissing the hand that feeds him. Somehow he was blindsided that his backing band, who say they are "founding members of the Irish Artists for Palestine movement", ditched him for his cowardly, sniveling obedience to a pro-genocide billionaire.