Boy George
Role at the time: Singer and Culture Club vocalist, posting on his own X account
Statement summary
Boy George dismissed Macklemore’s address to “my Jewish brothers and sisters” as insincere, citing an allegation about a past costume and salute, and told him to “own your hate.”
“It’s like people saying @macklmoore said ‘my Jewish brothers and sisters’ after dressing as caricature of a Jew and doing a nazi salute? Too late! Own your hate!”
Posted the evening of September 18, 2026. The line Boy George is dismissing is Macklemore’s MetLife Stadium statement of September 5, which opened “To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters” before saying criticism of Israel is not criticism of them. The allegation about a costume and a salute refers to material outside this dispute and is Boy George’s characterisation, not an established fact; it is reproduced here as part of his statement, not adopted.
Why we used this label
On Macklemore’s conduct, Boy George condemns him, rejecting as insincere the disclaimer with which Macklemore framed his “Free Palestine” remarks and imputing hatred to him. This is his second recorded position on the case and is consistent in direction with his September 7 statement, while going further: the earlier one criticised the slogan as shallow, this one attacks Macklemore’s motives directly. “Challenged the characterization” does not fit, because he is not disputing how someone else described events but delivering his own verdict on the speaker.