{"id":256371,"date":"2026-08-07T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/boy-george-falsely-claims-dua-lipa-said-israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:35:58","slug":"boy-george-falsely-claims-dua-lipa-said-israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/boy-george-falsely-claims-dua-lipa-said-israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George falsely claims Dua Lipa said Israel &#8220;should be wiped off the face of the Earth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote lj-screenable=\"social:newinsta:parse\" class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DbvBjfhDhbG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DbvBjfhDhbG<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow up to <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132657994.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132662639.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Boy George<\/b> took to Twitter yesterday to go on an unsubstantiated rant against <b>Dua Lipa<\/b> following backlash to his AI-created, reggae-inspired pro-Israel anthem. In a subsequent post, he criticizes <b>Annie Lennox<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Summary and select tweets under the cut:<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/>&#8220;&#8216;Why is [Dua Lipa] allowed to say &#8216;Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth&#8217; and I get abuse for defending my Jewish friends?&#8217; he posted, tagging the <i>New Rules<\/i> singer. <\/p>\n<p><b>When an X user asked for Boy George\u2019s source for the Dua Lipa quote, he shared screenshots showing pictures of the singer with text overlaid<\/b> reading: &#8216;Dua Lipa: As long as Israel continues to exist on Earth there will be no peace,&#8217; and, &#8216;Singer Dua Lipa claiming there will be no peace while Israel exists is circulating widely.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s just a bit of disco! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/diTKZA5X79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/diTKZA5X79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoyGeorge\/status\/2085288925195596043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Instead of announcing &#8216;I will never go to Isreal&#8217; why doesn&#8217;t Annie Lennox do a concert in Palestine or do an online concert? I wonder if all this is about her bitter divorce with a Jewish guy? <\/p>\n<p>Sweet dreams are made of this! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vFRI07gyN5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vFRI07gyN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoyGeorge\/status\/2085289780800098355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should all be screaming for peace not taking sides or juggling atrocities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gkjxDsn35L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gkjxDsn35L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boy George (@BoyGeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoyGeorge\/status\/2085667509680681446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/center><br \/>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DbvBjfhDhbG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2026\/08\/07\/boy-george-falsely-claims-dua-lipa-said-israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-face-of-the-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2085288925195596043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2085289780800098355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2085667509680681446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">5<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132693759.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DbvBjfhDhbG Follow up to this post and this post. Boy George took to Twitter yesterday to go on an unsubstantiated rant against Dua Lipa following backlash to his AI-created, reggae-inspired pro-Israel anthem. In a subsequent post, he criticizes Annie Lennox. Summary and select tweets under the cut: &#8220;&#8216;Why is [Dua Lipa] allowed to say &#8216;Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}