Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song

2 months ago by geneva_convenience to c/unitedkingdom

Boy George has been pulled off a West End performance days before he was set to take the stage as his manager scrambles to minimise backlash to a pro-Israel song.

Earlier this week the former Culture Club frontman released "We Will Dance Again", which featured the opening line "you say genocide, I said war, when you're attacked, that's what the army is for".

He goes on to describe Israel's assault as having got "ugly", before saying that it has done so because he "knows you want to kill every last one of us," referring to Jewish people living in Israel.

The release led to fierce backlash against the English singer. His manager, Paul Kemsley, has now released statement saying he has made the decision to pull Boy George from a scheduled run in Andrew Llyod Weber's Jesus Christ Superstar.

He was set to play King Herod – a one-song cameo role that’s being rotated – from August 3 to 15.

tacosanonymous 48 points 2 months ago

"Pro-Israel" is a generous descriptor.

Genocide denying, racist, ai-slop is what it is.

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Zombie 21 points 2 months ago

He goes on to describe Israel's assault as having got "ugly", before saying that it has done so because he "knows you want to kill every last one of us," referring to Jewish people living in Israel.

Says the English / Irish Catholic Buddhist living in London?... What?

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Waterpumpee 0 points 2 months ago

probably refers to western population as "us".

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DragonTypeWyvern 1 point 2 months ago

He means gays

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DonkeyStar 18 points 2 months ago

Boy George was convicted of imprisoning an escort and beating him with a chain, so he probably feels a bit of kinship with the invaders.

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ODuffer 10 points 2 months ago

Actions... consequences

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Avicenna 7 points 2 months ago

Read the legal issues here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George

Israel is in such deep shit that this is the only level of celebrity that they can bribe to promote them lol.

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NigelFrobisher 6 points 2 months ago

Obviously George has lost his goddamn mind on drugs again, but isn’t having an apologist for the slaughter of children actually pretty incredible casting for Herod?

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JAPHacake 3 points 2 months ago

What a nob

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Babalugats 1 point 2 months ago

“you say genocide, I said war, when you’re attacked, that’s what the army is for”.

To quote one of his earlier songs..

"war is stupid and people are stupid.. This world of hate must be designed for you It matters what you say, it matters what you do

So the idiot has gone from war being stupid to saying it is needed. He is still proving that people are stupid though.

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lobut 1 point 2 months ago

The answer to your song, Boy George, is yes.

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notsosure -1 points 2 months ago

I hated that camacamacameleon song the first f***g time I heard it. Him and his silly hats.

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Waterpumpee -21 points 2 months ago

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cman6 7 points 2 months ago

I think if you read up on how Israel have treated Palestinian's over the past few decades you will see that one side is clearly abusing their position of power, and treating Palestinians as second rate citizens.

I don't even know where to begin but how about Israeli snipers shooting unarmed civilians, including children: https://factually.co/...

Plus there is an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes

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Malyca 7 points 2 months ago

You should educate yourself more on the subject

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Avicenna 4 points 2 months ago

Except

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

"The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history.[a] This support continued during and in spite of active military hostilities between the two sides."

This is quite often how it goes. You feed and infiltrate a radical organization and then you press the "release" button when you need a "casus belli".

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Waterpumpee 1 point 2 months ago

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radiouser 4 points 2 months ago

Forgive my ignorance but when you say you kind of understand Israel what exactly do you mean?

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Waterpumpee -4 points 2 months ago

What did USA do when 9/11 happened. NATO even helped. I understand them fighting Hamas.

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radiouser 9 points 2 months ago

Equating this to 9/11 skips over decades of occupation and the reality on the ground today.

Major human rights groups have stated that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute acts of genocide and extermination. Understanding the shock of an attack is one thing, but using 9/11 to excuse the destruction of Gaza and the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians doesn't hold up IMO.

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KryptonNerd 5 points 2 months ago

Bombing kids isn't fighting hamas

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Waterpumpee -1 points 2 months ago

Hamas is basically hiding behind them. I strongly reject the idea that israel specifically targets them. Since no other force stepped in to eradicate hamas with the precision of a surgeon the brute force is what we get. Also i'd like to highlight that even western countries collected donations (e.g. UN) for palestine which ultimately landed in hamas hands. So israel's trust in the international community might be tainted.

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zbyte64 3 points 2 months ago

Americans lost their damn mind, and what they experienced was colonial blowback from their own foreign policies. So in many ways the comparison might be more apt than intended. But the situation with Isreal is much much worse.

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Semjeza 4 points 2 months ago

I think the floatilla activists take more umbrage with the deliberate killing of Palestinian children, doctors, reporters, and anyone who might be intelligensia. Plus the starvation and massive overwhelming firepower - it's not that they forget, it's that Hamas being Iran backed and talking about making Jews extinct isn't as pressing an issue as Israel actually making Palestinians extinct.

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Waterpumpee 0 points 2 months ago

Maybe im ignorant but the "river to the sea" chanters seem not to care about honorable matters. I simply connected these. Going into whataboutism i don't hear strong voices from that kind of people about afghanistan or sudan.

I think it feels fake or overrepresented in the public. Maybe some of these activists are sponsored to bring the matter into the public and parroting the propaganda. This could be even indirectly without their knowledge.

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Semjeza 3 points 2 months ago

Most people don't pay a huge amount of attention to things that aren't in the top few news items.

Sadly, Sudan, Somalia, Mali, Myanmar, and even Afghanistan and Syria and others are not. So most people do know or think much on them.

That said, the leftist folks I know who were "River to the Sea"ing back in 2016 are also the people who talk about those other countries.
They tend not to have social media channels, let alone newspapers or 24 hour news channels though.

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Malyca 3 points 2 months ago

And Bibi proclaimed from the river to the sea, or is it ok when he says it?

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Waterpumpee 2 points 2 months ago

No it is not. Isnt he wanted by the icc?

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tortina_original 3 points 2 months ago

Seriously, choke on a dick.

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Waterpumpee -7 points 2 months ago

Is that a homophobe insult now?

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