It was in the same month that Yorke released a statement saying he was appalled by the Israeli & Hamas military actions and said pressure on artists to speak out just wasn’t the answer . O’Brien has given his backing to the Palestinian cause – and defended his bandmates : ” My brothers are completely opposed to whats going on in Gaza . Just because they aren’t on every social media platform shouting about it or using the exact words that everyone else is , does not mean they arent deeply upset and angry about whats going on ” Pitchfork wrote that all this had taken a hit to Radiohead’s public image and said they had an “ambiguous political position” after producing all those albums with anti-war themes like Hail to the Thief . In October 2025 Yorke declared that he wasnt going to play in Israel again , but Jonny Greenwood went on to say he thought boycotts just gave governments even more power to do as they pleased .
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