<\/p>\n
Count me as a new fan of Boy George.<\/p>\n
I may not like his music, but his new reggae-inspired song, Od Nirkod<\/em> (We Will Dance Again)\u2019,\u00a0stands out for its full-throated solidarity with Israel and the Jewish People. He deserves a real credit for its moral clarity and bravery.<\/p>\n That moral clarity shows in how unapologetically he names who’s doing the killing and who’s dying, as he sings, \u201cDoes it get ugly? You bet it does. When I know you wanna kill, every last one of us. Every last one of us. Every last one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n Make no mistake: Hamas is the one trying to finish a genocide. Israel is the one stopping it. As the song puts it, “When you’re attacked, it’s what the army’s for.”<\/p>\n Moral clarity for naming the horrific sexual crimes Hamas committed – “Young girls raped against trees” – and the barbaric slaughter of innocents – “Murdered brutally. For the crime of dancing.”<\/p>\n Moral clarity for calling out the world’s hypocrisy and blind groupthink: “With selective memory. Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep. Propaganda fueled by the internet. It feels so weak.”<\/p>\n Releasing a song like this today is an act of real bravery. Standing with Israel means facing a wave of condemnation and backlash. For Boy George, taking the heat is worth it. As he writes, “I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human.”<\/p>\n If only more people lived with that kind of clarity.<\/p>\n He’s also right about his message of hope: “We will dance again.”<\/p>\n