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    Radiohead new comments on their Israel-Palestine controversy and whether they would do another Tel Aviv gig if given the opportunity (from The Times)

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    4. psly4mne on

      Cool, responding to a heckler isn’t the best moment to discuss the genocide in Gaza. They’ve had every moment since then to denounce it, and they’ve chosen the side of Israel.

    7. starlen11 on

      i know i should just ignore this because this centers random artists while there’s an active genocide going on still and that should be the focus but i just can’t get over the comment about the hecklers on the street and how two people arguing is what the iof wants. It’s so disingenuous because if you actually believed that then why aren’t you actively doing the thing he told you to. Use your platform! speak up! if arguing is a distraction why are you whining about it in an interview. this is such a cowardly interview where you try to cater to that “both sides” bullshit but in reality you just want to believe that genocide is okay for the existence of an israeli state and you should be left alone to believe that

    8. Tanuki0 on

      Not a single for Palestine. Just a mess about Israel, Israel, Israel and, well yeah Arabs too. It’s all just conceptual to them

    9. maddywriting999 on

      I read all that and it just comes off as, ‘aww poor us why are you being mean?’ Like way to center yourself aholes. Thousands of families dead and suffering and they want to go on and on about how unfair (people yelling Free Palestine at them, oh no how traumatizing) they’re being treated. Clowns should have just stayed silent.

    11. Skele-Tom on

      So consistently fucking disappointing. The bullshit argument that boycotting israel is actually a bad thing is the dumbest take in the world. At least Ed gives some hope that hes a half decent human.

    12. alone-in-the-town on

      How many times can they say “I get it, *sort of*” in one goddamn interview?? Can they please just shut the fuck up and stop destroying their legacy, Jonny is such an insufferable twat

      Edited to add: Ed O’Brien is a principled man for distancing himself

    15. Intelligent-Gap-6639 on

      All of this effort to avoid just saying that genocide is wrong. Free Palestine! It’s that easy.

    16. tmrtdc3 on

      > “I would argue that the government is more likely to use a boycott, and say, ‘Everyone hates us — we should do exactly what we want.'”

      I would love to know exactly what the Israeli government *hasn’t* been able to do especially over the last two years. They are already doing exactly what they want, they got to carry out genocide and endless violations of international law and now are taking a break on their own terms.

      Also, as always, very concerning to see the blame for genocide being placed at the feet of Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir like it wasn’t widely supported by not just most Israeli politicians, but most of Israeli society. Polling supports this! There were Israelis all over social media mocking dead and starving Palestinians. Every day we’d see photos of IDF soldiers posing and wearing dead Palestinian women’s underwear, and these people were hailed as heroes. They had riots for their ‘right’ to rape prisoners just last summer. It was only the past few months when there even started to be bigger protests against the genocide (the ‘war’ as they call it) in Israel. And even now, to be content with apartheid and occupation as your status quo is crazy.

    18. pecuchet on

      The usual liberal shit.

      1. This is all about me.

      2. I don’t recognise the difference between playing with Jewish musicians and playing with people who actively support the IDF.

      3. It’s Netanyahu’s government, not everything that came before it.

    19. No_Barracuda8791 on

      He used so many words when he could’ve easily just said “I don’t give a flying fuck that Israel is murdering innocent Palestinians and I’m proud of that.”

    20. hollyw00d8604 on

      Thom yorke has always been a pompous douche and he pretty much personifies white liberalism​

    22. somedaveg on

      “The left look for traitors, the right for converts” yeah, okay Jonny – that says all we need to know, and is an even greater indication of where they stand beyond just the Middle East

    23. wolf_at_the_door1 on

      It’s just interesting how a band that despised Tony Blair and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars so much they wrote an album and yet they can’t wrap their heads around a modern day genocide.

    28. Low_Charge_9946 on

      They’re cowardly bastards. And profoundly stupid at the same time. Why when people defend themselves with this shit do they start referencing random ME countries that have nothing to do with Palestine, to show how open minded they are. Is it because they think all arabs are the same? Palestinians are not Iraqis, nor Afghans, nor Iranians. They’re Palestinian.

    29. WJL91 on

      They just cannot mention the slaughtered innocent civilians can they. They cannot bring themselves to even acknowledge it. Truly utterly bizarre.

    30. VerbalNuisance1 on

      So we can confirm they don’t really think about anything and are just hoping this all blows over

    31. missdeweydell on

      this is not my radiohead. wtf. when thom sarcastically cracked a joke that sitting next to johnny on the couch meant he was supporting a genocide too, I about threw my phone. so vile, so disappointing.

    32. lipscratch on

      “When I got involved with the Climate Change Act, though, I spent two weeks obsessively reading up on it”

      You’re also free to read up on Palestine mate

      But then, that actually requires having a backbone, as opposed to issues as generally uncontroversial amongst the populace like caring about the environment, or the very-palatable-to-the-capitalist-west Free Tibet

    33. lipscratch on

      This smug, centrist narrative of “anybody who is emotionally invested in an issue and angry or sad about it is immediately intellectually compromised” is such lame, condescending, privileged bullshit. Thom Yorke is absolutely talented, but christ is he not smart

    34. lipscratch on

      Please can they just say “I don’t care about this genocide and I’m sick of people expecting me to care” and fuck off? Jesus

    36. burnbunner on

      To be witnessing genocide and yet “Arthur Miller-level witch hunt” is the scariest thing you can describe

    37. yfinfffffffff on

      1) I unfortunately know quiet a lot about Jonny Greenwood’s family position on Palestine (his wife and adult son’s very public social media posts) and I don’t think I can even label it as “left zionism” tbh.

      2) In his Instagram post, by using the “Hamas could have ended this if they wanted to”, Thom (intentionally or not) promoted a view on the genocide that was not only very pro-Israel but basically also uses Nethanyahu’s excuse to not even listen to Israeli hostages families who begged him to make a deal. Also, all the living Israeli hostages are now released but Israel is still violating the ceasefire so we all know that this excuse is now officially 100% false.

      3) As an anti-zionist jew who was born in Israel and working my ass off to move to another country. Having been at both pro-Palestine protests and general anti-government protests. I can tell you that unfortunately that Guardian video on the bigger protests is very very accurate. In the pro-Palestine protests we are very few. And most of Israel doesn’t care about the the genocide and ethnic cleansing that Palestine is still facing. Jonny saying that there are lot of ppl wearing FCK BEN GVIR shirts is pretty misleading because Ben Gvir while being 100% a genocidal freak is also known as a very pro police violence in general. The rage at Ben Gvir from most here in Israel comes from the police violence he uses in general on anyone who doesn’t like Nethanyahu. Not because of his anti-paelstine stances.

      Anyway, Thom is being very irresponsible about this and Jonny I suspect is intentionally using manipulation here.

    40. MindlessHamster6208 on

      Just admit you’re choosing your mate over a principled stance on this genocide and keep it moving. This is embarrassing.

    41. DrSpachemen on

      Last slide cuts to the chase. Yorke knows that being principled on this issue would destroy the band by pissing off Greenwood, who married an Israeli. This is the first issue where the band isn’t all aligned on a political issue, nor do they seem close enough anymore to care to challenge each other’s shit takes.

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