“On Wednesday Radiohead will perform in a Tel Aviv stadium built over the ruins of the Palestinian village of Jarisha. It is a sad fact that Radiohead have failed to engage with Palestinians who have called for them not to play, & that Thom Yorke’s comments are devoid of any reference to Palestinians at all.
As the lights go out in Gaza & Palestinian cancer patients die because they are denied travel permits by Israel, while a Palestinian poet in Israel lives under house arrest for a poem she wrote on Facebook, while a young circus performer from the West Bank languishes in administrative detention without charge or trial–Thom Yorke speaks loftily about “crossing borders” & “freedom of expression.” One has to ask, freedom for whom exactly?”
–Mike Leigh, Film Director