Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has called Radiohead’s Thom Yorke a "prick" over Palestine stance, adding that he is "very damaged and deeply insecure." Roger Waters, a prominent supporter of Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, has attacked Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood for their stance on the Israel-Palestine issue. In conversation with American journalist Abby Martin for The Empire Files, Waters was asked about Yorke in a Melbourne show in October.
Waters admitted he was not surprised, and recalled how he and Yorke had "a good exchange of emails" after he and other musical peers asked Radiohead to reconsider performing in Tel Aviv in 2017. In an open letter to Radiohead that year, Waters and signees wrote that "by playing in Israel you'll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, 'a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people.'" Yorke argued that “playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its government”.
"I wrote him a sort of email that went, 'I'm sorry if you thought I was being confrontational'. He wrote back and he said 'Normally people on the other side of an argument at least have the decency or grace to have a conversation.' So then I wrote him back and I said, 'Thom, the people in [the ] have been trying to have a conversation with you for months, and so have I!" Waters added: "The guy's a complete prick.
He is! But I think he's damaged. He's obviously very, v.