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Boy George has released a new song entitled We Will Dance Again, which voices support for Israel\u2019s military action in Palestine.<\/p>\n
Posted on X and Instagram with the Hebrew title \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e0\u05e8\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3 alongside its English translation, the song features a pop-reggae backing. The opening lyrics are: \u201cYou say genocide, I say war \/ When you\u2019re attacked, that\u2019s what the army\u2019s for \/ Does it get ugly? You bet it does \/ When I know you wanna kill every last one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boy George cites the attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival in October 2023<\/a>, saying the civilians killed there were \u201cmurder[ed] \u2026 for the crime of dancing\u201d. A total of 344 civilians and 34 security personnel were killed and 44 people were taken hostage.<\/p>\n The overall Palestinian death toll since the war started is more than 73,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n The title phrase We Will Dance Again, repeated for the song\u2019s chorus, has been used by Israelis to express hope and solidarity in the wake of the 7 October attack, and was used as the title of an acclaimed documentary about it.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the chorus, Boy George asserts: \u201cThere will be no war \/ But if you\u2019re ever confused \/ I stand with the Jews \/ I don\u2019t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human.\u201d<\/p>\n He also criticises the pro-Palestinian movement, including musicians who have condemned Israel: \u201cYou condemn the Jews, with selective memory \/ Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep \/ Propaganda fuelled by the internet feels so weak.\u201d Musicians who have supported Palestine<\/a> include Stormzy, Damon Albarn, Clairo and Brian Eno, the latter of whom conceived an all-star charity single, Lullaby, which vied for Christmas No 1 in 2025.<\/p>\n Boy George, who is not Jewish, has recently voiced support for Jewish communities. In an interview with the Telegraph, when discussing his admiration for Jewish peers in the 1980s during his time fronting Culture Club, he said: \u201cOver the years it\u2019s been a really personal thing. It doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t have compassion for Palestinians, it doesn\u2019t mean that I agree with what\u2019s going on in Israel, but I am always going to defend the people that I love. I have a lot of Jewish friends and there would never be a situation where I\u2019d turn my back on them.\u201d<\/p>\n He also voiced his support after the knife attack in Golders Green in April which left two Jewish men injured<\/a>, saying: \u201cWe need to make our Jewish community know we support them.\u201d<\/p>\n His new song marks an intensification of his support for Israel, having said earlier in the year that he didn\u2019t have an opinion on the country.<\/p>\n