Overview

• During Sunday’s Wembley show, Chris Martin invited two women on stage who said they were from Israel, drawing a mix of boos and applause from the 90,000-person crowd.
• Martin thanked them and stressed human equality, adding a welcome to people from Palestine in the audience.
• The women, identified as Avia and Tal, later told Kan 11 they briefly considered saying they were from Malta and described the moment as scary.
• Pro-Israel groups and commentators, including Creative Community for Peace and the National Jewish Assembly, criticized what they called dehumanizing framing and noted he did not reference hostages held by Hamas.
• Reaction online was divided, with figures like George Galloway mocking the moment and others defending Martin’s intent to be inclusive, as clips of the exchange spread widely.