Clairo, Wolf Alice, AURORA and more are among the new artists joining the ‘No Music For Genocide’ Israel streaming boycott.
The campaign is a cultural boycott initiative that encourages artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has seen widespread starvation and staggering numbers of civilian deaths, estimated to be well over 60,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
To join the coalition, the artists involved have edited their own release territories or sent geo-block requests to their distributor or label. They are encouraging major label groups Sony, UMG, and Warner to follow suit, particularly given that they blocked their entire catalogues from Russia and closed operations there a month into their invasion of Ukraine.
On Friday (October 10), Clairo, Lucy Dacus and numerous other artists – including Nao, Wolf Alice, Of Monsters and Men, Mallrat and AUORA – announced their commitment to the cause.
The latter recently hit out at Israel’s treatment of Greta Thunberg, after Swedish officials learned that she had been subjected to harsh treatment after being abducted in international waters and illegally detained in an Israeli prison.
Earlier this year, Clairo was praised by Bernie Sanders for her vocal support of Gaza and women’s rights at Coachella 2025, while Wolf Alice previously used their Glastonbury set to comment on the ongoing situation in Gaza, with frontwoman Ellie Rowsell saying: “Before we go, we want to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine.”
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They went on to say that media outrage over Bob Vylan and Kneecap speaking about Palestine at the festival was a “distraction technique”.
They now join the likes of Hayley Williams’, whose solo catalogue, as well as Paramore’s music, was recently added to the campaign’s official website, alongside Fontaines D.C., Amyl & The Sniffers, and Kneecap.
Other artists participating in the campaign include Rina Sawayama, MIKE, Primal Scream, Faye Webster, and Japanese Breakfast, Yaeji, King Krule, MJ Lenderman, Mannequin Pussy, Wednesday, Soccer Mommy and MØ.
The ‘No Music For Genocide’ campaign said that as the looked toward the “recovery, rebuilding, and life free from state terrorism for the people of Gaza”, they would renew efforts to demand for a boycott, and to “divest from, and sanction apartheid Israel for its crimes across all of Palestine until we achieve peace rooted in true justice”.
Massive Attack, who are involved in the campaign, have also asked their label, UMG, to remove their music not just from all streaming platforms in Israel, but from Spotify entirely. This is related to reports that the streamer’s CEO Daniel Ek has made significant investments “in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft”.
Other artists who are boycotting Spotify over Ek’s military investments include King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof.
Israel has continually reject accusations it is waging genocide, and denies committing any war crimes, maintaining that its operations are lawful acts of self-defence following Hamas’ attack on Israeli citizens at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023, which killed over 1100 people and saw 250 taken as hostages.
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