The lead singer of Radiohead clashed with an anti-Israel heckler before storming off stage at a concert in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday night.
Thom Yorke, whose English rock band has defied boycott calls to perform in Israel three times, was nearing the end of his solo show when a protester began yelling about the Jewish state.
While it was not entirely clear what the protester said from the footage, reports said the heckler referenced the corpse count of Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
during the Israel-Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...war.
"Come up here and say that, right now," Yorke responded.
"Come up on the f*cking stage and say what you want to say. Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it," he said, as the crowd roared in approval of the singer.
"Come on. You want to piss on everybody’s night? OK, you do, see you later then," Yorke said, and then left the stage. Many in the crowd cried "no" in disappointment.
Yorke later returned to the stage to perform a final number, Radiohead’s "Karma Police."
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Thom Yorke discutiu com uma pessoa pró-Palestina na pista e abandonou palco do show na Austrália (info do @nme). Segue o vídeo
— Teco (@Edukator_Teco) October 30, 2024
“Come up and say that. Right here. Come up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. But don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it" pic.twitter.com/ZKXgDCEYTK
Radiohead, which has won several Grammy Awards and sold millions of records since the 1990s, has been the target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, especially in the lead-up to its 2017 concert in Tel Aviv. In response, Yorke called BDS protesters "offensive" and "patronizing."
The band first performed in Israel in 1993 and then again in 2000.
Lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, partnered for an album last year with Israeli singer Dudu Tassa, along with artists throughout the Middle East, including Paleostinian singer Freteikh, Egyptian singer Ahmed Doma and Moroccan singer Mohssine Salaheddine.
Greenwood pushed back on critics this year who urged him to cancel a planned tour with Tassa in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
due to the ongoing war.
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