Current sectionArt & CultureShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeRoger Waters: "Israel is a failed experiment." Credit: Jim Dyson/Getty Images Europe/Getty ImagesTwenty years after his performance in the Jewish-Arab village of Neve Shalom, Roger Waters recounts his version of what really happened there – and what has changed for him since. 'They went from, 'Waaaah! Roger, Pink Floyd, we love you' – to 'What the fuck is he talking about?''04:49 PM • June 18 2026 IDTShortly after 10 P.M. on June 22, 2006, as Roger Waters' concert in the Jewish-Arab Israeli village of Neve Shalom was in full swing, a member of the production team mistakenly believed that police were preparing to arrest the Pink Floyd legend.In the NewsRoger Waters: 'My Songs Are About Truth, Love. Israel's the Opposite'Meet Al Shami, the Syrian Singer Giving Voice to Arab Gen ZBen and Jerry's Has a New Zionist Ice Cream'Disclosure Day' Is a Far Cry From the Glory of Spielberg's Early Alien MoviesThe Dome of Tel Aviv: Exposing the City's Great Synagogue, Layer by LayerRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHumiliated by Trump on the Iran Front, Netanyahu May Set the Middle East Ablaze'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesWhy Does the Jewish State Keep Deporting Diaspora Jews?Fork Found in Kitchen: Israelis Have Discovered the OccupationThe Fake Gaza Charity Linked to the Anti-left Disinformation Campaign in France