Boy George Jesus Christ Superstar now reaches politics, not the stage. Boy George has released We Will Dance Again, a new song posted on X and Instagram that backs Israel’s military response in Palestine. The cut lands as a public reversal of sorts: earlier in the year, he said he did not really have an opinion on Israel.
“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.” Those opening lines put the argument in the bluntest possible terms, and the chorus goes further: “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.”
We Will Dance Again on X
The song appears on X and Instagram with the Hebrew title עוד נרקוד alongside its English translation, and it uses a pop-reggae backing rather than a solemn protest tone. The title phrase We Will Dance Again has already carried political weight in Israel, where it has been used to express hope and solidarity in the wake of the 7 October attack, and it also titles an acclaimed documentary about the attack.
Boy George ties the song to the Hamas attack at the Nova music festival in October 2023, where 344 civilians and 34 security personnel were killed and 44 people were taken hostage. He says the civilians were “murder[ed] … for the crime of dancing,” a line that frames the track as a direct response to the festival deaths rather than a general statement about the conflict.
Golders Green in April
In April, after the knife attack in Golders Green, he said, “We need to make our Jewish community know we support them.” That follows a pattern in his own words: in a Telegraph interview, he said, “Over the years it’s been a really personal thing,” and added, “I have a lot of Jewish friends and there would never be a situation where I’d turn my back on them.”
He has also said, “I have many Jewish friends, whom I’ve known since I was 15 or 16 years old,” and, “From the beginning of my career, I wore the Star of David … I feel very connected to the Jewish people.” Those comments sit awkwardly beside his earlier line that he is “not necessarily connected to Israel” and “don’t really have an opinion on that,” because the new release now takes a side in language that names war, genocide, and solidarity in the same breath.
Israel and Palestine
The track also lands in a wider music-world split, with Boy George criticising the pro-Palestinian movement while other musicians, including Stormzy, Damon Albarn, Clairo and Brian Eno, have supported Palestine. Boy George says, “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,” then closes the song with, “But the mission of music is to unite people.”
More than 73,000 Palestinians have died since the war started, and that figure is what makes the release harder to file as just another celebrity statement. Boy George has put his name on a song that is already built to provoke response, and the next move is his: whether he promotes it further or answers the criticism it is likely to draw.
