Editing Massive Attack (section)

==== Israeli–Palestinian conflict ====
In late July 2014, Del Naja and Marshall visited the [[Bourj el-Barajneh]] [[refugee camp]] in Lebanon to meet with Palestinian volunteers at an educational centre. The band's profit from the show in Byblos was donated to the centre.<ref>{{cite web |date=29 July 2014 |title=Massive Attack visit Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: 'All of them have a right to a life of dignity and beauty' – People&nbsp;— News |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/massive-attack-visit-palestinian-refugees-in-lebanon-all-of-them-have-a-right-to-a-life-of-dignity-and-beauty-9635645.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/massive-attack-visit-palestinian-refugees-in-lebanon-all-of-them-have-a-right-to-a-life-of-dignity-and-beauty-9635645.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |access-date=17 September 2014 |work=The Independent}}</ref> In 2017, Massive Attack performed three shows in support of Hoping, an organisation that helps raise money and supports projects for Palestinian youth in refugee camps in the [[Gaza Strip]] and the [[West Bank]], [[Lebanon]] and [[Syria]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Massive Attack have previously played three shows in [[Israel]], but have boycotted it since 1999 "as a form of non-violent pressure on Israel to end its brutal [[occupation of Palestine]]".<ref>{{cite news|last=Duran|first=Anagricel|date= 12 January 2024|title=Massive Attack speak out on their boycott of gigs in Israel since 1999|newspaper=NME|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/massive-attack-speak-out-on-their-boycott-of-gigs-in-israel-since-1999-3570102|access-date=7 February 2024}}</ref> They have described their decision as "not an action of aggression towards the Israeli people", but "towards the [Israeli] [[Israeli government|government]] and its policies", arguing that "the Palestinians [in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]] and the [[West Bank]]] have no access to the same fundamental benefits that the Israelis do."<ref name="NS">{{cite news|last=Parry|first=William|date=3 September 2010|title=The silent treatment|newspaper=New Statesman|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2010/09/israel-interview-boycott-naja|access-date=26 August 2020}}</ref> In May 2020, Massive Attack co-signed an open letter urging Israel to end the [[blockade of the Gaza Strip]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hundreds of artists urge Israel to end Gaza blockade |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/5/16/hundreds-of-artists-urge-israel-to-end-gaza-blockade |publisher=Al Jazeera|date=16 May 2020}}</ref>

In May 2024, the group publicly expressed their support to the music acts who had decided to boycott [[The Great Escape Festival]] in [[Brighton and Hove]], in protest against the event's sponsor [[Barclays]] and its investments in companies supplying arms that were reportedly used by Israeli military forces in their [[Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)|invasion of the Gaza Strip]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Skinner |first=Tom |date=14 May 2024 |title=Over 100 acts have now dropped out of The Great Escape 2024 in Gaza boycott, with support from Massive Attack |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/over-100-acts-have-now-dropped-out-of-the-great-escape-2024-in-gaza-boycott-with-support-from-massive-attack-3756090 |access-date=24 May 2024 |website=[[NME]] }}</ref>

After the band [[Kneecap (band)|Kneecap]] were criticized for displaying pro-Palestinian messages at [[Coachella]] in April 2025, Massive Attack published a statement supporting the group saying, "Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. [[Gaza genocide|Genocide]] is the story."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pilley |first1=Max |title=Massive Attack: "Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story" |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/massive-attack-kneecap-are-not-the-story-gaza-is-the-story-genocide-is-the-story-3859728 |website=NME |access-date=2 May 2025 |date=30 April 2025}}</ref>