{"id":562879,"date":"2026-07-28T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:43:08","slug":"roger-waters-releases-comfortably-numb-remake-with-palestinian-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562879\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters Releases “Comfortably Numb” Remake With Palestinian Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Waters<\/a> recently unveiled \u201cComfortably Numb Re-Imagined,\u201d a new version of the Pink Floyd<\/a> classic featuring Palestinian singer Mona Miari. The collaborators discussed their hopes for the release, as well as the long-running accusations of anti-Semitism against Waters that have resurfaced amid his criticism of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza in a new interview with WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For \u201cComfortably Numb Re-Imagined\u201d (streaming below), Waters told WIRED in an interview published Monday that 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

The new take on the 1979 Pink Floyd song off The Wall 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

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\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

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

Miari added 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

Waters also addressed the recurring accusations of anti-Semitism that his support of Palestine has garnered him. Waters 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 answered.<\/p>\n

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

Recently, this criticism of Waters has flared up with Disturbed singer David Draiman, who is Jewish and pro-Israel, 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

In an open letter, Waters 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

Waters previously re-recorded \u201cComfortably Numb\u201d<\/a> in 2022 as part of his The Lockdown Sessions project. Meanwhile, his former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour recently reimagined the track with Body Count<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Waters recently unveiled \u201cComfortably Numb Re-Imagined,\u201d a new version of the Pink Floyd classic featuring Palestinian singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-562879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}