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Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song (www.thenational.scot)

submitted 5 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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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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[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 4 days 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.