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"If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table."
"Everyone signed to the same record label as any band that includes Thom Yorke is a Zionist and therefore a Nazi."
Did Thom Yorke go and play in Israel by himself? Or did he bring his Nazi clique with him?
Nazis? I don't recall any of them advocating for Nazism.
Play in Israel, just don’t pretend you didn’t know
I certainly agree that putting pressure on Israel since the grotesque over-reaction to the October 7 attacks is appropriate. I can see the argument for just never playing a concert there, but I think having played a concert in Israel ever does not qualify someone as a "Nazi". That's preposterous. Israel is presently in the process of an active and highly violent genocide against Gazans. Prior to this, public policy has been generally oppressive and heinous against Palestinians, sometimes more or less so.
What do you call someone going to play in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust?
I don't have a term for that, but either way, equating anyone who has played music in Israel with being a Zionist and therefore, a Nazi is childish and obscures actual Nazism. There is real fascism and racism in Israeli society but it is not true that it's somehow caused by Thom Yorke.