Yorke said: “Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing the government. We’ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America. We don’t endorse Netanyahu any more than Trump, but we still play in America.”
Yorke said in a statement in 2017 before a show in Tel Aviv.
You kind of left out the most important part. I don’t think Israel’s current genocide is in anyway equivalent to a trump presidency, the comment sounds bloody ignorant without the context.
That being said, there’s no need to start heckling about it when the guy hasn’t been there since 2017. I will however judge harshly any artist that goes there after what has happened in the last year. Israel deserves a boycott.
If we’re gonna do that, boycott every artist that plays in the u.s. why do you guys like to act like your hands are clean while pointing your finger at others? Your country fucked up mine in the very recent past and not a single but of responsibility has yet to be taken, you don’t get to moralize to the rest of the world
That’d be a fair excuse for what they’ve done if they were totally ignorant of what Israel’s government has done, but they’ve been told by Desmond Tutu and a bunch of other people. They had a fully informed opportunity to pick their side and they picked it, so they really shouldn’t be surprised when this keeps happening to them.
Not to sound dumb but do you have a list of places they can play? I’m not super informed and would like to be. Specifically what places can they play that a quick Google won’t invalidate with historic or current atrocities?
Commonsense is so refreshing.You kind of left out the most important part. I don’t think Israel’s current genocide is in anyway equivalent to a trump presidency, the comment sounds bloody ignorant without the context.
That being said, there’s no need to start heckling about it when the guy hasn’t been there since 2017. I will however judge harshly any artist that goes there after what has happened in the last year. Israel deserves a boycott.
If we’re gonna do that, boycott every artist that plays in the u.s. why do you guys like to act like your hands are clean while pointing your finger at others? Your country fucked up mine in the very recent past and not a single but of responsibility has yet to be taken, you don’t get to moralize to the rest of the world
That’s not common sense, that’s nonsense. Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing the government, but both are bad.
Edit: Wait this is in 2017. Still bad-ish, but less bad.
They’d probably play in Nazi Germany too
Godwin’s Law at work.
Committing a genocide makes for a good comparison to the nazis.
That’d be a fair excuse for what they’ve done if they were totally ignorant of what Israel’s government has done, but they’ve been told by Desmond Tutu and a bunch of other people. They had a fully informed opportunity to pick their side and they picked it, so they really shouldn’t be surprised when this keeps happening to them.
Not to sound dumb but do you have a list of places they can play? I’m not super informed and would like to be. Specifically what places can they play that a quick Google won’t invalidate with historic or current atrocities?