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Boy George\u00a0has parted methods together with his file label supervisor after he refused to launch the singer\u2019s pro-Israel music \u2018We Will Dance Once more\u2019.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Tradition Membership\u00a0frontman\u00a0shared the controversial pop reggae observe on social media final week (July 26), nevertheless it has but to seem on conventional streaming platforms.<\/p>\n
Its opening line, \u201cYou say genocide, I say warfare\u201c, rejects descriptions of Israel\u2019s army marketing campaign in Gaza as genocide, and the music goes on to\u00a0criticise\u00a0musicians who’ve publicly proven help for the individuals of Palestine.<\/p>\n
Within the days since,\u00a0George has withdrawn from an upcoming run as King Herod in\u00a0Jesus Christ Famous person\u00a0on the London\u00a0Palladium, and\u00a0has issued a press release defending the music in opposition to criticism, insisting he comes \u201cfrom a spot of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n
Now, the singer has stated that the music has led him to chop ties with Tony Pontius, who had run his file label BGP for a number of years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Buddhism we perceive that each motion comes with a consequence,\u201d George wrote on social media right now (August 1). \u201cBecause of\u00a0my\u00a0resolution to face up for my Jewish pals I’m shedding a number of individuals from my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn Buddhism we perceive that each motion comes with a consequence. Because of my resolution to face up for my Jewish pals I’m shedding a number of individuals from my life. At the moment I parted firm with Tony Pontius who has run my file label BGP for a variety of years. I wished to launch\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/jOArrkCktF<\/p>\n
\u2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cAt the moment I parted firm with Tony Pontius who has run my file label BGP for a variety of years. I wished to launch \u2018We Will Dance Once more\u2019 however he was unequivocal and\u00a0stated\u00a0\u2018I would like nothing to do with this music\u2019 and I responded \u2018okay, we’re achieved\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
George added: \u201cWhen somebody is\u00a0gutless\u00a0it actually doesn’t harm to say goodbye. My religion in humanity is not going to diminish and the reality will at all times win. I’ll launch it!\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to its opening line, the music,\u00a0which George confirmed was made with the assistance of AI, references\u00a0the Hamas-led assault on the Nova Music Competition on October 7, 2023, together with the lyric: \u201cMusicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep \/\u00a0Propaganda\u00a0fuelled\u00a0by the web feels so weak\u201c.<\/p>\n
The singer later stated it was impressed by a go to to\u00a0the Nova Music Competition Exhibition in London, the place he met Michael and Lisa Marlowe, whose\u00a0British-Israeli\u00a0son Jake was killed through the assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy music is pro-peace,\u201d he has stated. \u201cThe suggestion that I really feel no compassion for Palestinians is each unfaithful and absurd. I’m devastated for the lack of the harmless lives on either side of this warfare and I name for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy private opinion is that that is sadly a warfare, however not an try and wipe out Palestine,\u201d he stated. \u201cHowever I respect that everybody has their very own opinions and consider we should always all be allowed to have that proper.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The music was condemned by\u00a0Heaven 17\u00a0and\u00a0The Human League co-founder Martyn Ware as an \u201covertly pro-genocide, anti-Palestinian piece of musical propaganda\u201d. Actor Patrick Clanton, who beforehand appeared alongside George within the Broadway manufacturing of Moulin Rouge!,\u00a0additionally\u00a0stated that he was \u201cembarrassed\u201d to have labored with him.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0United Nations-appointed Fee of Inquiry\u00a0concluded in September 2025 that Israel had dedicated genocide in opposition to Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0Amnesty Worldwide\u00a0has reached the identical conclusion.<\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly denied committing genocide or warfare crimes, sustaining that its army marketing campaign adopted the Hamas-led assaults of October 7 and was an act of self-defence. It rejected the UN Fee\u2019s findings as \u201cdistorted and false\u201d and a \u201clibellous sham\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tradition Membership are presently as a result of return to the stage for\u00a0\u2018The Singles\u2019 UK area tour with ABC and Haircut 100\u00a0this December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n