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Posted on 05/14/2026 12:37:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Do you recall when Patrick Kielty boldly claimed that The Late Late Show guests could speak their minds without restraint? The absurdity of such a notion was highlighted in last Friday’s episode, where it became evident that this freedom didn’t extend to voicing support for the Jewish community.
Among the guests was Boy George, and even by the show’s typically cautious standards, the recent controversy surrounding him couldn’t be brushed aside. Coincidentally, Boy George found himself in Golders Green on a day when two Jewish men were randomly attacked near a synagogue. The alleged assailant is a Somali Muslim man with a violent past.
Following the incident, George took to social media to offer his condolences to the victims and their community, stating, “They are an integral part of the fabric of this city.” He further expressed, “Our Jewish community brings us so much… we need to let them know we support them.” When Kielty brought up the topic, George shared that he’d received “a lot of abuse online for my support of my Jewish friends,” emphasizing, “I have numerous beautiful Jewish friends from my upbringing, and being asked to turn against an entire race of people is unacceptable to me.”
And rightly so, as Conor Cruise O’Brien once noted, “antisemitism is a light sleeper,” and the resurgence of such sentiments globally is alarming.
However, Kielty seemed unable to acknowledge this without referencing “the backdrop of the horrors in Gaza,” as if to rationalize the attacks, mumbling that “this is a complex thing.”
Are we to believe that innocent Jewish Londoners, simply going about their daily lives, deserve to be assaulted because of the Israeli prime minister’s actions in a distant land? Would anyone dare to justify a similar assault on London’s Russian community by citing “the backdrop of the horrors in Ukraine”? If American citizens were targeted in Dublin or London, would Kielty suggest it was linked to conflicts involving Iran?
Patrick Kielty and Boy George on the Late Late Show
Funny, isn’t it, how President Putin is generally held personally liable for the invasion of Ukraine, and the Middle Eastern conflict is invariably referred to as ‘Trump’s illegal war’? And yet when it comes to accountability for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Hamas invasion of October 7, the country of Israel and the entire Jewish race throughout the world are collectively blamed.
Nobody ever talks about ‘Netanyahu’s genocide’, it’s always Israel and, by extension, Jewish people everywhere who are to be demonised, sanctioned, boycotted and punished.
And when President Connolly – sorry, but that still jars as much as ‘President Trump’ – used a recent speech in the University of Galway to mount her favourite hobby horse, it was Israel, rather than its bellicose prime minister, that she blamed. Staff and students in the university, she said, ‘have raised serious concerns over ties between the university and educational institutions in Israel’. Would she seriously suggest that American students be boycotted and punished for the US attack on Iran?
Yet she has no problem holding civilian institutions, Jewish colleges and universities, responsible for the war in Gaza and demanding they be isolated, boycotted and sanctioned for a war over which they have no control.
Many of the young victims Hamas raped, tortured, kidnapped and slaughtered, when it breached a ceasefire to carry out the worst genocidal attack on the Jewish race since the Holocaust, would have been students of the same ‘educational institutions’ of which Catherine Connolly speaks with such disgust.
The young people who were dancing and singing at the Supernova festival in Israel when Hamas savages paraglided in on October 7 would have included students from many different schools and colleges in Israel.
But because they are Israelis, they are guilty by association for their government’s actions, and deserving of collective punishment, with their places of education to be denied the benefit of academic co-operation and solidarity and their own futures compromised as a result. And this is the shower who boast of their compassion and command the rest of us to ‘be kind’?
In the UK, there are moves to ban pro-Palestinian marches because of their blatant antisemitism, with chants of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ and ‘From the River to the Sea’ – calls for worldwide attacks on Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel – leaving little doubt about their motivation.
At the weekend, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch declared that these marches were clearly designed to terrorise and intimidate Britain’s Jewish population, and said the stabbings of those Jewish men, the antisemitic graffiti on a Jewish bakery and the burning of ambulances owned by a Jewish charity were proof that anti-Jewish hatred was being normalised and accepted in the UK.
You will not find a mainstream politician in this country with the guts to condemn the poisonous sentiment that has singled us out as one of the most antisemitic nations in the world. Fortunately, nobody’s going to notice our little antisemitic tantrum in boycotting the Eurovision, since that contest has effectively been boycotting us for years, but the sheer intensity of Irish anti-Jewish rhetoric and activism, such as the ongoing bid to purge a Jewish name from a Dublin park, has made international headlines.
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When Boy George even makes sense, that says it all.
I guess the old-school trannies knew they deviated from the norm.
The new ones today are the entitled left.
Ping
He doesn’t claim to be a woman.
It’s all about Identity Politics. It’s all about sowing divisions within society. But a problem arises when the Left loses the thread and can no longer agree on which division is the one which deserves support. The Jews? Well, “never again”, right? and “We remember the Holocaust”, eh? But ... No. Now the Jews are bad. Who are we supposed to support? The Iranians? or is it All Muslims? Are we still supporting the Ukrainians? If a Ukrainian attacks a Muslim, which one is the evil one? It’s very confusing.
The level of delusion is deep for antisemites.
There are multiple morons on this website who claim Israel is “bombing its neighbors indiscriminately” and without provocation.
Presentment of facts to the contrary do not change their mind.
There is no point in talking with such people.
I know, he dresses like one though.
Hence “old school” transvestite.
Western leftists are simply as stupid as this:
Brown man is the victim, white man is the oppressor.
That’s it. Almost everything they believe is based on that.
Boy George may look strange but if you ever listen to interviews with him, he is very grounded. He grew up working class and retained a lot of those sensibilities.
I remember an early interview and he referred to himself as a ‘drag queen’.
And at least he looks sort of like a normal woman instead of a gruesome caricature.
“Hence “old school” transvestite.”
Yep, but not “transgender”.
Well said.
Boy George isn’t a tranny. He’s a cross dresser.
And if you include non-Muslims, there are more severe situations all around the world.
So how do they explain, they only seem to care about oppressed people if the alleged perpetrators are Jewish?
[Not to mention the fact that Muslims have more rights in Israel than any other country in the Middle East.]
It’s called ‘hatred of Jews’. There’s no further explanation.
I had no problem with Boy George and his music, at least his two songs that were hits that I know were really good.
His life is his own personal affair. https://ew.com/boy-george-says-queer-identity-politics-have-not-helped-anyone-11771022
Meanwhile, why did Desmond Dekker, a black man sing ‘The Israelites’? I dun’t get it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxxn7hjc8GA
I had no problem with Boy George and his music, at least his two songs that were hits that I know were really good.
His life is his own personal affair.
He is also a azzhole and not someone to mess with. A friend of mine barely avoided a tangle with him.
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