Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song
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.
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"Pro-Israel" is a generous descriptor.
Genocide denying, racist, ai-slop is what it is.
Says the English / Irish Catholic Buddhist living in London?... What?
probably refers to western population as "us".
He means gays
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.
Actions... consequences
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.
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?
What a nob
To quote one of his earlier songs..
So the idiot has gone from war being stupid to saying it is needed. He is still proving that people are stupid though.
The answer to your song, Boy George, is yes.
I hated that camacamacameleon song the first f***g time I heard it. Him and his silly hats.
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/fact-checks/justice/israeli-snipers-shooting-children-f4a566
Plus there is an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes
You should educate yourself more on the subject
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.
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.
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.
And Bibi proclaimed from the river to the sea, or is it ok when he says it?
No it is not. Isnt he wanted by the icc?
With no enforcement it's useless. Most European nations still welcome him like he's not the monster that he is. They pretend he never says these things.
Except
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
"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".
Forgive my ignorance but when you say you kind of understand Israel what exactly do you mean?
What did USA do when 9/11 happened. NATO even helped. I understand them fighting Hamas.
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.
Bombing kids isn't fighting hamas
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.
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.
Seriously, choke on a dick.
Is that a homophobe insult now?