Finally, a celeb has stood up to the Israel bashers. It took the famously dour frontman of Radiohead to do it. At a solo gig in Melbourne, Thom Yorke was heckled by an audience member smugly demanding to know why he hasn’t spoken out about Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Yorke wasn’t having it. He even called the caterwauling gig ruiner a ‘coward’. It’s the best thing he’s done since OK Computer.
Shaky footage filmed by his fellow concert-goers captured the man yelling at Yorke. From deep in the audience he barked something about the ‘Israeli genocide of Gaza’ and said half of those killed ‘were children’. He challenged Yorke to ‘condemn’ Israel’s actions. Yorke wasn’t happy, understandably, given he was there to sing songs, not massage the already outsized egos of the fashionably Israelophobic. So he shot back.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke confronted a heckling anti-Israel protestor at a solo concert in Melbourne on Wednesday night.
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