Radiohead's Thom Yorke walks off stage after protester heckles him: 'You want to piss on everybody’s night?'

"Hop up on the f---ing stage and say what you wanna say," the singer said to the pro-Palestine protester. Yorke eventually came back to perform "Karma Police."

Thom Yorke did not like it when his concert was interrupted earlier this week. The Radiohead frontman was performing a solo show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia on Oct. 30 when someone in the audience started yelling about "the Israeli genocide in Gaza."

“Come up here and say that. Right here, come on," Yorke said to the heckler, in footage captured by other people in the audience. "Hop up on the f---ing stage and say what you wanna say. Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody’s night?”

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“How many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza?” the protester yelled in response.

“Okay, you do it, see you later then,” Yorke said before walking off the stage.

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Yorke's absence did not last forever. After a few minutes, he returned to the stage to perform a solo rendition of Radiohead's 1997 hit "Karma Police" as his final song of the night. The show was part of his ongoing Everything tour, which true to its name features music from across his career — as part of Radiohead, as a solo artist, and his more recent group The Smile.

This is not the first time Yorke or Radiohead faced criticism for their relationship to Israel, whose military is still fighting and killing people in the Gaza Strip more than a year after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Even prior to this most recent conflict, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been trying for years to maintain a cultural boycott of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, similar to the one enacted against apartheid South Africa in the '80s.

Back in 2017, Radiohead performed in Israel and earned criticism from BDS supporters like socialist British film director Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake) who said, "Radiohead need to decide if they stand with the oppressed or the oppressor." Yorke posted his response publicly on Twitter.

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“Playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing the government," Yorke wrote at the time. "We’ve played in Israel for over 20 years through a succession of governments, some more liberal than others. As we have in America. We don’t endorse [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu any more than [former U.S. President Donald] Trump, but we still play in America. Music, art, and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds and not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue, and freedom of expression. I hope that makes it clear, Ken."

When reached by Entertainment Weekly, representatives for Yorke and Radiohead had no additional comment on this week's incident.