Palestine

Man, I used to be a huge fan of them, listening to nothing but Radiohead for months at a time. Completely stopped shortly after Israel started their campaign of indiscriminate bombings and he gave a similar statement to this one.

Between Radiohead, Kanye, Die Antwoord and this german zionist hip-hop collective called Antilopen Gang I really chose the worst possible artists to get into in my early 20s. Completely stopped listening to all of them over their fucked up behavior these past 5 years.

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Edit: I have to admit I didn't read Yorke's actual Instagram statement when I wrote this message and took OP for his word here. I don't hate what he has to say there? Sure, the remarks about Hamas not returning all the hostages are somewhat tone deaf in light of the ever worsening situation Palestinians have suffered for the past 70 years, and he shies away from calling out Israel as the settler-colonial ethnostate that it is, instead opting to mostly blame Netanyahu and "his extremist government" (paraphrasing). But overall I think it's a level headed statement that warns against letting social media divide us further and clearly places culpability on Israel's side.

Hell, he directly calls out "the horrific blockade", desire to take control of all of Gaza, and murder of "endless thousands" of people. I'm not going to write someone who makes statements like these to a following of millions as a rabid Zionist, sorry.

Sure, I would have preferred he go further, but I expected something entirely different from OP's post.