{"id":19573,"date":"2026-07-28T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19573"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:22:06","slug":"roger-waters-wants-people-will-hear-comfortably-numb-remake-with-palestinian-singer-as-prophetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19573","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters Wants People Will Hear &#8220;Comfortably Numb&#8221; Remake With Palestinian Singer as &#8220;Prophetic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Roger-Waters.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1614242\" data-title=\"Roger Waters Say He Hopes People Will Hear \u201cComfortably Numb\u201d Remake With Palestinian Singer as \u201cProphetic\u201d\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/roger-waters-talks-about-comfotrably-numb-remake\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/roger-waters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Waters<\/a> and his Palestinian musical collaborator on a new version of \u201cComfortably Numb,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monamiari.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mona Miari<\/a>, discussed their hopes for the release and the continuing accusations of anti-Semitism that have followed him for years and been rekindled since his speaking out against Israel\u2019s recent actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cComfortably Number Re-Imagined,\u201d (stream below) released in June, Waters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.me\/story\/roger-waters-and-mona-miari-refuse-to-become-comfortably-numb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told WIRED<\/a> in an interview published Monday\u00a0that he hopes people will \u201chear that it was prophetic \u2014 there is a right and a wrong. This is not complicated, and this song is on the right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new take on the 1979 Pink Floyd song off <em>The Wall<\/em> is re-envisioned as a tribute to the Palestinian people and Gaza and features a change to the refrain that makes the culminating lyric, \u201cI will never become comfortably numb.\u201d Miari sings in Arabic throughout the more than nine-minute remake in one verse vocalizing \u201cWhen I was young I dreamed of freedom\/ Hope blazes fierce in everything I am\/ Like roots breaking through the rubble\/ We shape our fate\/ Our light will break the darkness\/ We are the promise of a new dawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they\u2019ll go \u2018Phew,\u2019\u201d Waters continued, \u201cthey were part of the resistance, and we are part of the resistance. \u1e62um\u016bd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WIRED explained that the Arabic word \u1e63um\u016bd is a concept central to the Palestinian experience of steadfastness and remaining on one\u2019s land despite occupation and displacement.<\/p>\n<p>Miari explained that she hoped 10 years from now \u201cwhoever listens to \u2018Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined\u2019 could also experience a free Palestine and look back at it as a testament about the truth and what happened and just cherish that sense of resistance and urgency for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters also addressed the recurring accusations of anti-Semitisism that his support of Palestine has garnered him. Water had a terse answer when asked to address the criticism that his work is anti-Semitic. \u201cFuck off is my answer to that,\u201d Waters said.<\/p>\n<p>He elaborated by telling WIRED, \u201cI don\u2019t have an anti-Semitic bone in my body, I never did and I never will have. I couldn\u2019t give a shit what your religion is, frankly. I\u2019m not interested in it. I\u2019m interested in human rights for my brothers and sisters, whoever they are. Color of the skin, religion, nationality, politics \u2014 I couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, this criticism of Rogers has flared up with Disturbed singer David Draiman, who is Jewish and pro-Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/disturbed-david-draiman-roger-waters-betrayed-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying on Billy Corgan\u2019s podcast<\/a>, \u201cIt was such a massive betrayal, not just to me, but Jews everywhere when (Waters) went in the direction that he did. And it wasn\u2019t just two years ago; he\u2019s been doing this for a long time,\u201d adding that he would punch Waters if the two met.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter, Waters <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/roger-waters-responds-david-draiman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called Draiman \u201can obnoxious little prick\u201d<\/a> in response and said, \u201cI will continue to work with all my brothers and sisters all over the world in the movement to demand equal human rights for all human beings, irrespective of their religion or ethnicity or nationality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters took the WIRED interview as an opportunity to express his criticism for social media as well, saying it\u2019s numbing people to issues and injustices going on in the world. Waters called himself lucky for not having come up with social media. \u201cBack in the \u201960s and \u201970s, there wasn\u2019t any social media,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody had an iPhone . . . 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