Pro-Palestine Group Pickets Radiohead’s Accounting Office
By Noah Yoo.
Members of UK activist group London Palestine Action (LPA) gathered outside Radiohead’s “corporate office” (the office of Hardwick & Morris, their accounting firm) to protest the band’s upcoming concert in Tel Aviv. Donning cut-out Thom Yorke masks and holding signs reading “Radiohead: don’t leave Palestinians high and dry” and “Karma police, arrest this man for his crimes against solidarity,” the group sang some of Radiohead’s biggest songs with edited lyrics to criticize the group. (Their version of “Creep” went, “When we got the call, Saw dollars in my eyes/We're supporting apartheid, But the pay's really high.”) Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Radiohead for comment.
In April, the band were petitioned to pull out of their Tel Aviv concert by numerous artists, including Thurston Moore, Roger Waters, and more. Earlier this month, Yorke said in a statement to Rolling Stone that he disagreed with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel, calling the backlash against the band “patronizing” and “offensive.” More pro-Palestine groups subsequently came out against the band.
This story originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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