Chris Martin is being called out to “dehumanize” Israeli fans at the London show over the weekend.
The Coldplay frontman took two concert participants to the stage at the band Wembley Stadium Performance on Sunday and asked where they came from.
The audience booed and groaned, applauding as they responded to the woman saying “Israel.”
Martin, 48, later replied, “I’m going to say this. I’m so grateful that you’re here as a human being. We treat you as an equal person on earth, no matter where you come from.
“Thank you for being here,” continued the Grammy winner. “We are grateful and appreciated for being love and kind.”
The songwriter continued, “We welcome people in the Palestinian audience… that may be controversial, but maybe.”
“I think we are all human as well,” Martin repeated.
“Deeply disappointed” social media users denounced the exchange via X, blowing up “mort humiliation” and “two (people) in front of thousands” for “bored” and “aliens (people)” in the moment “unnecessarily politicized.”
One fan urged performers to “take quiet moments and reflect on (his) word choices.”
Another is, “The Israelis should be allowed to celebrate their identity on stage without being relieved by the famous people who say they are “humans.” That doesn’t need to be said.
Individuals admitted that when Martin, a “normal person with empathy,” heard Boo, he “thought he was doing the right thing.”
However, fans said, “At the end of the day, he took two girls and targeted them, probably wanting to enjoy music. I sincerely believe his motivation is pure, but he still ends up reducing the two young women to political pawns in the conflict.”
Some people have questioned the backlash completely when one fan asked, “What’s wrong with saying we’re all of us?”
Martin’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Page 6.
The “Fix You” crooner made a headline to point out the Palestinian flag at a California show in May 2025.
Two months later, Martin said, “I had a beautiful Palestinian flag yesterday. Today there is an Israeli flag. Welcome to all people. Thank you, thank you to my brothers and sisters. Both groups can come.”
An Israeli fan who was booed on Sunday said on the public broadcast of the Israeli Kang that he would lie “for a moment” and tell him he was in Martin from Mata, according to the Israeli era.
“We couldn’t lie and didn’t want to lie,” one woman said. “It was a bit scary to know that 90,000 people were coming from here, but we said that.”
