{"id":2072028,"date":"2026-07-31T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072028"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:32:03","slug":"boy-george-responds-to-genocide-denier-criticism-after-pro-israel-song-we-will-dance-again-i-come-from-a-place-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072028","title":{"rendered":"Boy George responds to \u201cgenocide denier\u201d criticism after pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019: \u201cI come from a place of peace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/boy_george_live.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Boy George responds to \u201cgenocide denier\u201d criticism after pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019: \u201cI come from a place of peace\u201d<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>&#8220;The suggestion that I feel no compassion for Palestinians is both untrue and absurd&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Max Pilley<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-31T19:32:03+01:00\">31st July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/boy_george_live-696x442.jpg\" alt title=\"Boy George &amp; Culture Club Perform At Uptown Festival 2025\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Boy George of Culture Club at Blackheath Common on July 27, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Boy George has responded to criticism of his pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019, insisting that he \u201ccomes from a place of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1256\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Culture Club\u2019s Boy George: the original gender-fluid pop icon versus the modern world<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0Culture Club\u00a0singer\u00a0had been due to play King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium for a\u00a0two-week\u00a0run from Monday (August 3),\u00a0but his manager Paul Kemsley announced yesterday (July 30) that he had withdrawn from the production.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kemsley did not give an explicit reason for the\u00a0decision, but\u00a0said that George had \u201cnever been afraid to stand by his personal convictions\u201d and that he believed stepping aside was in the \u201cbest interests\u201d of the singer and the show.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came days after\u00a0George released \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019, a controversial song that\u00a0appeared to reject\u00a0descriptions of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza as genocide, as well as\u00a0criticising\u00a0musicians who have\u00a0publicly supported\u00a0Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>George has now addressed the response to the song in a public statement, saying it was inspired by his visit to\u00a0the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in London\u00a0and meetings with people affected by\u00a0the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: the manager of @BoyGeorge Paul Kemsley says the singer is being pulled out of his performance in Jesus Christ Superstar. <br \/>His message alludes to George\u2019s \u2018personal convictions\u2019. <br \/>It doesn\u2019t say but it appears this may be connected to George\u2019s pro Jewish song that he\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/nfsDzy8UnN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) July 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, I\u00a0realise\u00a0that being an air sign I expect the world to understand me without having to explain myself,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe suggestion that I feel no compassion for Palestinians is both untrue and absurd. I am devastated for the loss of\u00a0the innocent\u00a0lives on both sides of this war and I call for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have read members of the press calling me a \u2018genocide denier\u2019, yet those who deny the suffering of Israelis are given a free pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George continued:\u00a0\u201cMy song is pro-peace and about the emotions I felt after visiting the Nova Exhibition and talking to Michael and Lisa Marlowe, who had their son Jake taken from them.\u00a0Murdered\u00a0trying [to] help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nova Festival is a mirror of my world as a DJ and I have played many such festivals, including in Israel, so it resonated with me and I felt compelled to write something.\u00a0I could have been there, and we know that there were people from more than 40 countries who were. I felt these deep\u00a0emotions\u00a0and I wrote this song for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:<br \/>Singer @BoyGeorge has released a public statement about the horrendous attacks he has had since daring to write a song that humanises Israelis. <br \/>He says he was inspired to write it after going to the Nova Festival exhibition in London and meeting Mike and Lisa Marlowe\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/M6yejy008e<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>George also defended his rejection of the term genocide in the song, which opens with the lyric: \u201c<i>You say genocide, I say war<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personal opinion is that this is sadly a war, but not an attempt to wipe out Palestine,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I respect that everyone has their own opinions and believe we should all be allowed to have that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then questioned why more musicians had not\u00a0publicly supported\u00a0Jewish communities, adding that speaking up for his Jewish friends did not mean that he supported the war or opposed Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that it is uncomfortable to defend your friends when a war like this is raging, but the woman who sells me bagels is not to blame, neither is my doctor or publicist, manager, ex-boyfriend or my thousands of Jewish friends,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis song is for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a place of peace. I am a Jew-loving, trans-hugging queer hippy and my mother would be proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boy\u00a0George later confirmed that he had used artificial intelligence to create the track, describing it as \u201cAI for good\u201d and admitting that he would \u201cstruggle to write this with a human\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The song was condemned by\u00a0Heaven 17\u00a0and\u00a0The Human League co-founder Martyn Ware as an \u201covertly pro-genocide, anti-Palestinian piece of musical propaganda\u201d. Actor Patrick Clanton, who previously appeared alongside George in the Broadway production of <i>Moulin Rouge!<\/i>,\u00a0also\u00a0said that he was \u201cembarrassed\u201d to have worked with him.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0United Nations-appointed Commission of Inquiry\u00a0concluded in September 2025 that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0Amnesty International\u00a0has reached the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has repeatedly denied committing genocide or war crimes,\u00a0maintaining\u00a0that its military campaign followed the Hamas-led attacks of October 7 and was an act of\u00a0self-defence. It rejected the UN Commission\u2019s findings as \u201cdistorted and false\u201d and a \u201clibellous\u00a0sham\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>George has voiced support for Jewish communities on several occasions in recent years. 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class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Boy George has responded to criticism of his pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019, insisting that he \u201ccomes from a place of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1256\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Culture Club\u2019s Boy George: the original gender-fluid pop icon versus the modern world<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0Culture Club\u00a0singer\u00a0had been due to play King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium for a\u00a0two-week\u00a0run from Monday (August 3),\u00a0but his manager Paul Kemsley announced yesterday (July 30) that he had withdrawn from the production.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kemsley did not give an explicit reason for the\u00a0decision, but\u00a0said that George had \u201cnever been afraid to stand by his personal convictions\u201d and that he believed stepping aside was in the \u201cbest interests\u201d of the singer and the show.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came days after\u00a0George released \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019, a controversial song that\u00a0appeared to reject\u00a0descriptions of Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza as genocide, as well as\u00a0criticising\u00a0musicians who have\u00a0publicly supported\u00a0Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>George has now addressed the response to the song in a public statement, saying it was inspired by his visit to\u00a0the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in London\u00a0and meetings with people affected by\u00a0the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: the manager of @BoyGeorge Paul Kemsley says the singer is being pulled out of his performance in Jesus Christ Superstar. <br \/>His message alludes to George\u2019s \u2018personal convictions\u2019. <br \/>It doesn\u2019t say but it appears this may be connected to George\u2019s pro Jewish song that he\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/nfsDzy8UnN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) July 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, I\u00a0realise\u00a0that being an air sign I expect the world to understand me without having to explain myself,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe suggestion that I feel no compassion for Palestinians is both untrue and absurd. I am devastated for the loss of\u00a0the innocent\u00a0lives on both sides of this war and I call for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have read members of the press calling me a \u2018genocide denier\u2019, yet those who deny the suffering of Israelis are given a free pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George continued:\u00a0\u201cMy song is pro-peace and about the emotions I felt after visiting the Nova Exhibition and talking to Michael and Lisa Marlowe, who had their son Jake taken from them.\u00a0Murdered\u00a0trying [to] help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nova Festival is a mirror of my world as a DJ and I have played many such festivals, including in Israel, so it resonated with me and I felt compelled to write something.\u00a0I could have been there, and we know that there were people from more than 40 countries who were. I felt these deep\u00a0emotions\u00a0and I wrote this song for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:<br \/>Singer @BoyGeorge has released a public statement about the horrendous attacks he has had since daring to write a song that humanises Israelis. <br \/>He says he was inspired to write it after going to the Nova Festival exhibition in London and meeting Mike and Lisa Marlowe\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/M6yejy008e<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>George also defended his rejection of the term genocide in the song, which opens with the lyric: \u201c<i>You say genocide, I say war<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personal opinion is that this is sadly a war, but not an attempt to wipe out Palestine,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I respect that everyone has their own opinions and believe we should all be allowed to have that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then questioned why more musicians had not\u00a0publicly supported\u00a0Jewish communities, adding that speaking up for his Jewish friends did not mean that he supported the war or opposed Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that it is uncomfortable to defend your friends when a war like this is raging, but the woman who sells me bagels is not to blame, neither is my doctor or publicist, manager, ex-boyfriend or my thousands of Jewish friends,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis song is for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a place of peace. I am a Jew-loving, trans-hugging queer hippy and my mother would be proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boy\u00a0George later confirmed that he had used artificial intelligence to create the track, describing it as \u201cAI for good\u201d and admitting that he would \u201cstruggle to write this with a human\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The song was condemned by\u00a0Heaven 17\u00a0and\u00a0The Human League co-founder Martyn Ware as an \u201covertly pro-genocide, anti-Palestinian piece of musical propaganda\u201d. Actor Patrick Clanton, who previously appeared alongside George in the Broadway production of <i>Moulin Rouge!<\/i>,\u00a0also\u00a0said that he was \u201cembarrassed\u201d to have worked with him.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0United Nations-appointed Commission of Inquiry\u00a0concluded in September 2025 that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0Amnesty International\u00a0has reached the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has repeatedly denied committing genocide or war crimes,\u00a0maintaining\u00a0that its military campaign followed the Hamas-led attacks of October 7 and was an act of\u00a0self-defence. It rejected the UN Commission\u2019s findings as \u201cdistorted and false\u201d and a \u201clibellous\u00a0sham\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>George has voiced support for Jewish communities on several occasions in recent years. In May, he\u00a0shared a message of solidarity at an anti-Semitism march in London.<\/p>\n<p>Culture Club are currently due to return to the stage for\u00a0\u2018The Singles\u2019 UK arena tour with ABC and Haircut 100\u00a0this December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/boy-george-responds-to-genocide-denier-criticism-after-pro-israel-song-we-will-dance-again-i-come-from-a-place-of-peace-3960126&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/boy_george_live.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News Boy George responds to \u201cgenocide denier\u201d criticism after pro-Israel song \u2018We Will Dance Again\u2019: \u201cI come from a place of peace\u201d &#8220;The suggestion that I feel no compassion for Palestinians is both untrue and absurd&#8221; By Max Pilley 31st July 2026 Boy George of Culture Club at Blackheath Common on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2072028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}