{"id":230488,"date":"2026-07-31T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/230488\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:24:12","slug":"uk-singer-boy-george-pulls-out-of-london-musical-after-pro-israel-song-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/230488\/","title":{"rendered":"UK singer Boy George pulls out of London musical after pro-Israel song backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">British singer Boy George has pulled out of a West End production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar after facing a backlash for releasing a pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 65-year-old musician \u201cwill no longer be appearing in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium\u201d, his manager Paul Kemsley said on social media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The singer, whose real name is George Alan O\u2019Dowd, rose to fame in the 1980s as the flamboyant singer of the pop band Culture Club.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This week he released a song supporting Israel and its war in Gaza, with lyrics including \u201cyou say genocide, I say war\u201d and \u201cwhen you\u2019re attacked, that\u2019s what the army\u2019s for\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Israeli soldiers in December 2023 walk among photos of people taken captive or killed by Hamas militants during a music festival on October 7 that year, at the site where the massacre took place. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7b4274eb-6de6-499b-ac81-a1c06c5de1f2_7e791ce6.jpg\" title=\"Israeli soldiers in December 2023 walk among photos of people taken captive or killed by Hamas militants during a music festival on October 7 that year, at the site where the massacre took place. Photo: AFP\"\/>Israeli soldiers in December 2023 walk among photos of people taken captive or killed by Hamas militants during a music festival on October 7 that year, at the site where the massacre took place. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The title is a phrase used to express solidarity after Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 attack on a music festival and other Israeli communities in Israel in which 1,221 people were killed, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British singer Boy George has pulled out of a West End production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[22942,19566,64349,496,65369,1411,37,65237,65245,1178,65243,65370,40578,7888,65368],"class_list":["post-230488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-boy-george","tag-british","tag-culture-club","tag-gaza","tag-george-alan-odowd","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-jesus-christ-superstar","tag-king-herod","tag-london","tag-london-palladium","tag-nova-exhibition","tag-october","tag-palestinian","tag-west-end"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117014578038306391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}