Radiohead ’s Jonny Greenwood has addressed the calls to boycott the band’s tour last year , saying that he believes that music and art should exist above politics. Read More: Radiohead live in London: a generous and visceral hit parade (of sorts) Pro-Palestinian activists, including those in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) highlighted a show Radiohead played in Israel in 2017 and argued that the band’s “complicit silence” during what an independent United Nations inquiry found to be a genocide in Gaza, which Israel has denied, should lead to a boycott. When asked about the controversy by The Times in a new interview, guitarist Greenwood described it as “very hard to talk about,” explaining: “I think music and art should be above and beyond political concerns. You know I made an album [2023’s ‘Jarak Qaribak’] involving Israeli, Iraqi, Egyptian and Syrian mu...
