{"id":1115573,"date":"2026-07-28T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115573\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:50:38","slug":"you-say-genocide-i-say-war-boy-george-releases-new-pro-israel-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1115573\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You say genocide, I say war\u2019: Boy George releases new pro-Israel single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk\/boy-george-i-would-never-turn-my-back-on-my-jewish-friends-hgfmb102\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boy George last month said<\/a> he would \u201cnever turn his back on his Jewish friends\u201d after being targeted by pro-Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"p-smartembed\" data-attr-caption=\"Boy George attends The Olivier Awards 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, April 12, 2026 in London, England (Credit: Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images)\" data-attr-credit=\"\" data-attr-has-caption=\"true\" data-attr-has-credit=\"true\" data-attr-q=\"0.3\" data-attr-w=\"400\" data-onecms-id=\"contentid\/1sq2otskzzwahvsezbs\" data-onecms-type=\"image\" href=\"javascript:throw new Error('React has blocked a javascript: URL as a security precaution.')\" polopoly:contentid=\"contentid\/1sq2otskzzwahvsezbs\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2270991625.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Boy George attends The Olivier Awards 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, April 12, 2026 in London, England (Credit: Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images)\"\/>Boy George attends The Olivier Awards 2026 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, April 12, 2026 in London, England (Credit: Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images)[Missing Credit]<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cOver the years it\u2019s been a really personal thing. It doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t have compassion for Palestinians, it doesn\u2019t mean that I agree with what\u2019s going on in Israel, but I am always going to defend the people that I love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of Jewish friends and there would never be a situation where I\u2019d turn my back on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pop icon published the song on his X and Instagram accounts on Sunday, with the caption \u201c#Shalom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The full lyrics of the song are:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say genocide, I say war.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re attacked, it\u2019s what the army\u2019s for<\/p>\n<p>Does it get ugly? You bet it does.<\/p>\n<p>When I know you wanna kill, every last one of us.<\/p>\n<p>Every last one of us. Every last one of us.<\/p>\n<p>You never mention October 7. Young girls raped against trees.<\/p>\n<p>Murdered brutally. For the crime of dancing. You condemn the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>With selective memory. Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda fuelled by the internet. It feels so weak.<\/p>\n<p>But trust me, we will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>We will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>We will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>And there won\u2019t be no war.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re ever confused, I stand with the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel brave I just need to behave like a human.<\/p>\n<p>But trust me, we will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>We will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>We will dance again.<\/p>\n<p>And there will be no war.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re ever confused, I stand with the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel brave I just need to behave like a human.<\/p>\n<p>[In Hebrew] You say genocide, I say war, when they come to kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boy George last month said he would \u201cnever turn his back on his Jewish friends\u201d after being targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1115574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[56174,77,837,269,16,15],"class_list":["post-1115573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-boy-george","tag-entertainment","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116996042008662053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}