Bono admitted the song's advocacy of nonviolence felt 'laughable' in the moment. His new lyrics described the hundreds who were killed in the music festival attack as 'stars of David'
“Sing for our brothers and sisters — who they themselves were singing at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel,” Bono said. “We sing for those. Our people, our kind of people, music people. Playful, experimental people. Our kind of people. We sing for them. In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence… But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us… and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”
As the first verse of “Pride” kicked in, Bono changed the first verse to refer to the massacre in Israel instead of the death of Martin Luther King Jr
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