Boy George’s critics spent months calling him a “Zionist” like it was an insult. Standing at the site of the Nova festival massacre on Tuesday, he fired back: “Yes, I am a Zionist. Get over it.”
The British pop icon has been on a whirlwind journey over the past year due to his refusal to bow to the prevailing anti-Israel narrative.
Initially, he stressed that his support was mainly for Jewish people rather than Israel itself, saying he wasn’t necessarily connected to Israel and didn’t really have an opinion on it.
It was the public reaction to his song honoring the victims of October 7 that drove him fully into Israel’s arms.
The price of a pop song
Boy George’s connection with the Nova community began after he visited the Nova 06:29 exhibition in London. He then released “We Will Dance Again,” accompanied by photographs of young people murdered at the festival.
Unsurprisingly, he faced swift and hostile backlash from those accusing him of supporting “genocide.”
On Monday, the singer described the cost to President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. He said he had lost a lot of friends.
“In some ways, the old Boy George no longer exists,” he said, explaining that some people no longer see him as they once did, others see him in a new way, and the song had forced him to grow up.
Boy George in Israel: says he’d CONVERT TO JUDAISM if he finds a Jewish ‘partner’
‘I’m too lazy. I heard it’s really hard’
‘If you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews… My life is getting more Jewish’ https://t.co/DP75p5sF3J
— RT Intl (@RT_on_X) November 3, 2026
Compelled to act
Following his tour yesterday of the Nova massacre site near Kibbutz Re’im, Boy George held a press conference moderated by Omer Shem Tov, who was abducted from the festival and held in Gaza for 505 days, and who thanked him for the courage it takes to stand publicly with Israel.
The singer said October 7 itself horrified him. But something else horrified him more: people with no connection to the events telling him “it wasn’t true, that it was made up.” That triggered something deep inside him: “I couldn’t just sit there and do nothing.”
“I’m a Zionist. Get over it.”
Boy George https://t.co/eEsZWGW5GF— Mossadil Commentary (@MOSSADil) November 3, 2026
‘Ordinary people’ still support Israel
In an interview with GB News, Boy George joked that the reflex now is to blame Israel for everything, even a cold. But he’s taken hope from the fact that most people don’t seem fooled by the propaganda.
“In the UK, the people who are online sort of making these comments, they’re noisy, they’ve got too much time on their hands,” he said of the aggressive online Israel-hatred. “But real people are actually kind of amazing. And I’m seeing that the more I go out in the daylight and bump into people, I’m seeing that actually, ordinary people are brilliant.
🇮🇱🇬🇧Boy George says “ordinary people” in the UK support Israel while pro-Palestine activists are just “noisy.”
“The people who are online making these comments, they’re noisy, they’ve got too much time on their hands. Real people are actually…amazing.” https://t.co/ek8pXtpuWL
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 4, 2026
Boy George performs tonight at Tel Aviv’s Menora Mivtachim Arena with guest singer Ivri Lider, and again on November 7 in a show dedicated to the Nova community and their families, featuring DJ Ofer Nissim.
He wants “We Will Dance Again” to eclipse his 1983 hit “Karma Chameleon” and to make it the highlight of the show.
He may get his wish. At his request, Sylvan Adams and the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem donated 1,500 tickets for the Saturday show to the Tribe of Nova Community Association, for survivors and bereaved families.
On Saturday, the people the song was written for will be the ones dancing.
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