In an interview with Channel 12 Saturday, Boy George, the 1980s pop icon who composed a musical tribute to the victims of the Nova Music Festival massacre called “We Will Dance Again,” said that he has received threats and has been harassed over his upcoming concert in Israel.

“I’ve had threats, and I’ve had people defacing my pictures and concert posters,” George said. “For me personally, none of those people look like peace.”

“Some of these people do not care about anything,” he added. “Their political views are Dolce & Gabbana [fashion brands]. Suddenly, to have a position on something that I know you don’t care about, it makes me so angry.”

The singer also said that supporting Israel doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about Palestinians.

“I never, ever said I didn’t care about Palestine,” he said. “I just know Jewish people and I know they’re good people, and I know they want to live.”

Boy George described his feelings about visiting an exhibition about the Nova Music Festival massacre and how it inspired him to write “We Will Dance Again.”

He also described how he felt watching news about the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre on TV.

“I saw it on TV, and I remember being absolutely physically traumatized by what I was seeing,” the musician said. “Just so shocked. And to see people with children, and women, saying that it didn’t happen is mind-blowing to me.”

“When I wrote ‘We Will Dance Again,’ I felt like the world had really broken my heart again,” he added, saying that the song was “an emotional statement rather than a political one.”

“It just happened. I was just sitting in my flat on Friday night writing away, writing lyrics, and then I played it back … and I got quite tearful,” he said.

In the interview, Boy George discussed the difficulty of finding musicians willing to perform with him in Israel.

“We are trying to find a band right now,” he said. “We’re working on it.”

“I’m trying to find people who are brave enough to come,” he added.

Tickets to his show, which is scheduled for Nov. 4 in Tel Aviv, are sold out, and he is trying to schedule a second show.

Boy George unleashed a wave of anger and backlash when he released his song “We Will Dance Again” in July, which laid out his sentiments in black and white. In the song, he told his anti-Israel listeners that what they call genocide is in fact a war, and he accused his fellow musicians of acting like sheep, following the herd.

“But if you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews,” he stated unequivocally in the song.

His record label manager, Tony Pontius, quit over the song, saying he wanted “nothing to do with it.” His manager, Paul Kemsley, pulled him from a two-week performance tour of the hit West End revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” in which he was supposed to play King Herod. Bandcamp removed his song and his page from its platform.

A giant London mural of Boy George, painted by international muralist Benzi Brofman to honor the 1980s pop icon for his musical tribute to the victims of the Nova Music Festival massacre, was defaced with a red triangle, the symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets.