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

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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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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Except

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

"The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history.[a] This support continued during and in spite of active military hostilities between the two sides."

This is quite often how it goes. You feed and infiltrate a radical organization and then you press the "release" button when you need a "casus belli".

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 1 points 12 hours ago

What do you think why did they support hamas? Who was the strongest political force in palestine? How was that force's stance toward israel?

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

What do you think why did they support hamas?

I have exactly written the answer to this at the end. The answer to your other two questions are in the link. Example; according to the article Israel kept supporting Hamas even when there were hostilities between them.

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