Boy George has launched a brand new music entitled We Will Dance Again, which voices help for Israel’s navy motion in Palestine.
Posted on X and Instagram with the Hebrew title עוד נרקוד alongside its English translation, the music encompasses a pop-reggae backing. The opening lyrics are: “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for / Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us.”
Boy George cites the attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival in October 2023, saying the civilians killed there have been “murder[ed] … for the crime of dancing”. A complete of 344 civilians and 34 safety personnel have been killed and 44 individuals have been taken hostage.
The total Palestinian dying toll for the reason that struggle began is more than 73,000.
The title phrase We Will Dance Again, repeated for the music’s refrain, has been utilized by Israelis to precise hope and solidarity within the wake of the 7 October assault, and was used because the title of an acclaimed documentary about it.
Elsewhere within the refrain, Boy George asserts: “There will be no war / But if you’re ever confused / I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human.”
He additionally criticises the pro-Palestinian motion, together with musicians who’ve condemned Israel: “You condemn the Jews, with selective memory / Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep / Propaganda fuelled by the internet feels so weak.” Musicians who’ve supported Palestine embrace Stormzy, Damon Albarn, Clairo and Brian Eno, the final of whom conceived an all-star charity single, Lullaby, which vied for Christmas No 1 in 2025.
Boy George, who just isn’t Jewish, has just lately voiced help for Jewish communities. In an interview with the Telegraph, when discussing his admiration for Jewish friends within the Nineteen Eighties throughout his time fronting Culture Club, he stated: “Over the years it’s been a really personal thing. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have compassion for Palestinians, it doesn’t mean that I agree with what’s going on in Israel, but I am always going to defend the people that I love. I have a lot of Jewish friends and there would never be a situation where I’d turn my back on them.”
He additionally voiced his help after the knife attack in Golders Green in April which left two Jewish men injured, saying: “We need to make our Jewish community know we support them.”
His new music marks an intensification of his help for Israel, having stated earlier within the 12 months that he didn’t have an opinion on the nation.
Speaking forward of an look with San Marino for his or her Eurovision music contest entry (which didn’t attain the competition’s closing), he was questioned concerning the boycott of Eurovision by international locations opposing Israel’s inclusion within the contest. “I have many Jewish friends, whom I’ve known since I was 15 or 16 years old,” he replied. “Are people asking me, as someone with principles, to turn my back on my Jewish friends? That is not going to happen – it will never happen. From the beginning of my career, I wore the Star of David … I feel very connected to the Jewish people. I’m not necessarily connected to Israel. I don’t really have an opinion on that. But the mission of music is to unite people.”
His characterisation of Israel’s motion in opposition to Palestine as a reputable navy response slightly than genocide runs counter to a United Nations inquiry, which acknowledged in 2025 that Israel has dedicated genocide in opposition to Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s international ministry referred to as the report “distorted and false”. Last month, one other independent UN inquiry discovered that Israel was persevering with to commit genocide by focusing on kids. That report was dubbed a “libellous sham” by Israel.
Boy George was one of the crucial flamboyant and recognisable pop stars of the Nineteen Eighties, with Culture Club scoring 4 UK Top 10 albums together with 1983’s chart-topping Colour By Numbers. Hit singles embrace Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? and Karma Chameleon, which have been each vastly profitable within the US in addition to UK, and have endured as staples on oldies radio.
The band additionally had a success with an anti-war observe, The War Song, which reached UK No 2 in 1984 and featured the refrain: “War is stupid and people are stupid / And love means nothing in some strange quarters.”
Last month, Boy George launched a brand new firm referred to as Artist Included, which is able to use AI to permit artists to create new variations of earlier songs which resemble the originals, as a manner of wresting again management of grasp recordings. It launched with a brand new model of Karma Chameleon, which Boy George recorded then de-aged. “When I heard it, I was absolutely gobsmacked,” he advised the Hollywood Reporter. “It sounds like another take from that original session.”
