Hello All, Today London Palestine Action submitted the petitions collected our petition. The total was 14,000 of which 3900 (27%) was from our petition! Thank you so much for your help! This is a video made by Palestinians asking Radiohead to cancel their show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7mBbmgZh4 Please share! Below is the press release from LPA. Thanks again to all of you! London activists hand in 14,000-strong Radiohead petitions as Ken Loach and Israeli musicians make appeal Activists in London today handed petitions signed by almost 14,000 people to Radiohead's label XL Recordings in London, calling on the British band to cancel their scheduled 19th July show in Tel Aviv. With a mock-up petition reading, “Radiohead: Please don't play Tel Aviv! Love from 14000 fans”, activists from London Palestine Action, handed the signatures to a member of staff at the label’s West London office. One of the petitions, launched by US group Jewish Voice for Peace, says: “Palestinian civil society, in an effort to bring worldwide attention to injustice and inequality in Israel/Palestine issued a call for cultural boycott in 2005. We ask you to honor that call. Israel is regarded as an Apartheid state because of separate laws for Jews and non-Jews. Stand with us as we work for peace, justice, and human rights -- cancel your concert in Tel Aviv.” The mock up petition could later be seen at a bus stop nearby. Meanwhile, a group of Israeli musicians have published an open letter to Radiohead, which reads: “Every international artist who plays in Israel serves as a propaganda tool for the Israeli government. International performances in Israel serve the government’s agenda of whitewashing its war crimes against Palestinians by creating a “business as usual” atmosphere wherein the status-quo, a reality of colonization and military occupation for Palestinians, becomes normalized. Maintaining this atmosphere relies heavily on creating a facade of Israel as a hip, advanced, progressive state with a vibrant and diverse cultural scene.” Frontman Thom Yorke has criticised approaches made to the group on behalf of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “waste of energy”. In April dozens of artists including Thurston Moore, Ken Loach, Roger Waters and Young Fathers, as well as anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu, signed an open letter calling on Radiohead to cancel the scheduled show in Tel Aviv, which read: “Please do what artists did in South Africa’s era of oppression: stay away, until apartheid is over.” Ken Loach has also made a further appeal to the band, saying, “If they go to Tel Aviv, they may never live it down”. Protests have been held in cities across Europe during Radiohead’s recent tour, including in Paris, Dublin and Florence, with the band set to play Manchester tonightand Glasgow this Friday. Many Palestinian flags could be seen in the crowd during the band’s headline set at Glastonbury Festival last month.