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Radiohead frontman\u00a0Thom Yorke has said in a British newspaper interview he would not now perform in Israel, eight years after the band defied pro-Palestinian activists to play a Tel Aviv gig.<\/p>\n
“Absolutely not. I wouldn’t want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime,” he told The Sunday Times Magazine, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.<\/p>\n
The interview with members of the British band — whose UK number one albums include “OK Computer” and “Kid A” — took place before this month’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n
The band kick off their first tour in seven years next month, playing 20 shows in five European cities.<\/p>\n
Radiohead’s 2016-2018 “A Moon Shaped Pool” world tour ignited a backlash when the group performed in Tel Aviv despite boycott calls.<\/p>\n
Yorke hinted at some regret over the decision in the new interview, saying he was “horrified” when a “clearly connected high up” Israeli came to their hotel to thank them for playing.<\/p>\n
The Israel-Palestinians conflict has dogged the band and its members at other points.<\/p>\n
Yorke briefly walked off stage during a solo gig in Australia last year after a pro-Palestinian heckler shouted “how many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza”.<\/p>\n
The frontman released a statement in May saying the incident left him “in shock that my supposed silence was somehow being taken as complicity”.<\/p>\n
Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood is married to an Israeli artist and has faced sustained criticism from boycott advocates for his long-time collaboration with Israel-born rock musician Dudu Tassa.<\/p>\n
The Radiohead guitarist told the magazine he spent a lot of time in Israel with family and was “not ashamed of working with Arab and Jewish musicians”.<\/p>\n
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