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Thom Yorke Talks ‘Heavy Toll’ Confrontation With Heckler About Israel-Hamas War Took On Him, Slams ‘Netanyahu and His Crew of Extremists’

Radiohead leader Thom Yorke slammed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his 'crew of extremist' in lengthy note about the Israel-Hamas war.

After a man in the audience shouted comments about “Israeli genocide in Gaza” during the gig at the Sidney Meyer Music Bowl in October, Yorke stopped the show and challenged the person to come on stage and say it to his face before walking off in seeming disgust. The daily attacks have also led to a humanitarian crisis and what experts warn is a potentially devastating famine due to the Netanyahu administration’s refusal to let sufficient food aid into the decimated region. Admittedly short on answers and aware that his note is unlikely to satisfy those looking to “target myself or those i work with,” Yorke ended by offering hope that his letter will allow him to join the many millions of others “praying for this suffering, isolation and death to stop.”

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