"I was in the hotel," Yorke recalled, "when some guy, clearly connected high up, approaches me to thank me. It horrified me, truly, that the gig was being hijacked. So I get it-sort of. At the time I thought the gig made sense, but as soon as I got there and that guy came up? Get me the f*** out."
""This wakes me up at night," he said. "They're telling me what it is that I've done with my life, and what I should do next, and that what I think is meaningless. People want to take what I've done that means so much to millions of people and wipe me out. But this is not theirs to take from me-and I don't consider I'm a bad person.""
Radiohead members reflected on the 2017 Tel Aviv performance and the ensuing backlash. Thom Yorke felt the gig was being hijacked when a well-connected man approached him at the hotel, which horrified Yorke and made him want to leave. Yorke vowed not to perform in Israel again and expressed strong opposition to the Netanyahu regime. Jonny Greenwood, with Israeli family and musical ties, argued that boycotts risk encouraging governments to double down. Yorke described pressure from pro-Palestinian activists and BDS supporters who sought to define and erase his work, a portrayal he rejected.
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