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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 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

peaceful option

Acknoledge the right of israel instead of sending rockets. Stop voting religious fanatics in.

fighting for survival

1951: 0.9m population 2026: 5.6m population

This amount of population is unsustainable on the land. They could only boom like this due to foreign aid. They have barely any economy themselves.

82k civillians

It's a guerilla war with undeclared combatants. Wiki acknoledges abt 80k without declaring them civillian. Anyhow 1200 hamas millitants is obviously bs. Also hamas using that war style only works with the help of civillians. They are complicit to some extend.

go fuck yourself

You know why everyone is fighting for this little pile of dirt? Religion. They all think their religion started there and want to claim the mountain theirs. There's alot of money in the pot to make you think their side is correct and you actually being so zealot about it to insult people so randomly shows.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Kind of saying the quiet part out loud there about the population growth. It’s about extermination of an indigenous people by colonists - same old story.

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 1 points 17 hours ago

This goes for both sides ultimately. They hate each other. However saying this is a genocide and palestineans are fighting for survival is stretched far looking at these numbers.

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