Waters described Yorke as "unpleasant" and a "timid little bloke" in an interview on The Katie Halper Show.
The former Pink Floyd member has been a vocal supporter of the BDS movement since 2011 and has spoken out against Yorke and Radiohead previously and criticised their stance on Israel-Palestine. Waters has criticised Radiohead for performing in Tel Aviv back in 2017, at the time he reportedly exchanged emails with Yorke to encourage him to reconsider performing in Israel.
Radioheads frontman responded to this criticism at the time, he said “playing in a country isn’t the same as endorsing its government. We don’t endorse Netanyahu any more than Trump.”
Waters still holds the same opinions of the band and Yorke, as he was asked about them in his recent interview on The Katie Halper Show. He originally told the host "not to go there" before changing his mind and expressing his opinion on Yorke. “He’s a timid little bloke. I think he’s unpleasant company," he said. Waters told the host that he contacted Yorke privately, although his response was unpleasant.
“I wrote him many letters you know.” Waters was asked if he had ever recieved a response, to which he revealed, “Yes, he did. He did respond. It’s all going in my memoir. He got very very snarky and he was trying to be fun[ny].”
Yorke took to social media to speak about his stance on Israel-Palestine after he was confronted by a protester at one of his solo concerts in October of last year. Yorke abruptly exited the stage after the protester interrupted his set.
“Some guy shouting at me from the dark last year when I was picking up a guitar to sing the final song alone in front of 9000 people in Melbourne didn’t really seem like the best moment to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” Yorke explained. “Afterwards I remained in shock that my supposed silence was somehow being taken as complicity, and I struggled to find an adequate way to respond to this and to carry on with the rest of the shows on the tour," he continued.
“That silence, my attempt to show respect for all those who are suffering and those who have died, and to not trivialise it in a few words, has allowed other opportunistic groups to use intimidation and defamation to fill in the blanks, and I regret giving them this chance. This has had a heavy toll on my mental health,” he continued, before stating that his music should be enough of an indication to prove he “could not possibly support any form of extremism or dehumanisation of others," Yorke said.
