Radiohead and Smile’s Thom Yorke leaves stage in response to pro-Palestinian protester

Radiohead And Smile singer Thom Yorke stopped recent solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, after he was insulted by a pro-Palestinian spectator. Concert footage show a man shouts about the death toll in Israel’s war in Gaza and asks York: “How could you remain silent?” (The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians. Ministry of Health Gaza.)

York, further footage showaddressed the man in the hall: “Come out to damn speak up and say what you want to say. Don’t stand there like a coward. Come here and say it.” He continued, “You want to piss everyone good night? Come on then. Okay, yeah, see you later.” York then left the stage, but he back To play “Karma Police” by Radiohead.

Yorke and Radiohead were came under firein 2017 for performance in Israel. York fired negative reaction to the concert in Tel Aviv, and he wrote“Playing in a country is not the same as supporting its government. We played in Israel for over 20 years through successive governments, some more liberal than others. Just like we do in America. We don’t support (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu more than Trump, but we still play in America.”

Jonny GreenwoodYorke’s Radiohead and the Smile bandmate also recently defended his work with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa following the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) The movement said he was “laundering art with genocide” executionwith Tassa, in Tel Aviv amid the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Greenwood, whose wife is Israeli artist Sharona Katan and who released the album. Jarak Karibakwith Dudu Tassa, last year—wrote that “no art is as ‘important’ as ending all the death and suffering around us.” He continued: “But doing nothing seems like the worst option. And silencing Israeli artists because they were born Jewish in Israel does not seem like a way to achieve mutual understanding between the two sides of this seemingly endless conflict.”