Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke took a strong stand for Israel after being heckled by a Hamas sympathizer during a concert in Melbourne, Australia this week.

During his solo performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday, a protester disrupted the show by calling out Israel’s “genocide of Gaza,” noting “half of them were children” without evidence. Yorke directly challenged the heckler, saying, “Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it. You want to piss on everybody’s night?”

When the protester responded only by shouting “How many dead children will it take for you to condemn the genocide in Gaza?” Yorke replied, “OK, you do it, see you later then” before briefly leaving the stage.

Minutes later, he returned to cheers from the crowd to perform Radiohead’s “Karma Police.” The Melbourne audience sided firmly with Yorke, booing the protester who was eventually removed by security.

Yorke has long been a strong supporter of Israel and a vocal critic of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Yorke articulated his opposition to BDS, stating, “I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all,” and questioning the logic behind it: “It’s like, really? You can’t go talk to other people who want to learn stuff in another country? And you think that’s gonna help?”

This summer, Yorke’s bandmate, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, was criticized and threatened by BDS supporters for performing with Israeli artist Dudu Tassa and his band in Tel Aviv.

Greenwood, who is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, responded by saying that efforts to boycott Israeli artists “feels unprogressive.”

“No art is as ‘important’ as stopping all the death and suffering around us. But doing nothing seems a worse option,” he explained.

“And silencing Israeli artists for being born Jewish in Israel doesn’t seem like any way to reach an understanding between the two sides of this apparently endless conflict.”