Short answer: As of July 2026, there is no public record of Bad Bunny supporting Israel. He has never performed there, endorsed it, collaborated with an Israeli cultural institution, or spoken in its favor. His visible sympathies point the other way: his 2025 song "DtMF" became an unofficial anthem among Palestinians in Gaza, and he warmly welcomed Palestinian fans connecting with it. That said, the widely shared "Palestinian flag at his concert" clips circulate only on TikTok and fan accounts and are not confirmed by any major outlet, and he did not boycott an openly Israeli producer, Yuval Chain, who co-produced a track on his Grammy-winning album.
What Bad Bunny has actually said and done
- January 2025: Bad Bunny releases the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Within weeks its title track "DtMF" is adopted across Gaza and Lebanon as a soundtrack for before-and-after war footage, becoming widely described as an unofficial Palestinian anthem, as reported by La Nación and El Imparcial.
- July 15, 2025: Haaretz reports that Yuval Chain (stage name UV Killin Em), an Israeli-American producer who co-produced the track "El Clúb" on the album, faces boycott pressure and hostile messages for being openly Israeli and Zionist. Bad Bunny did not distance himself from the producer, a point also covered by The Times of Israel.
- September 11, 2025: Bad Bunny says he deliberately excluded the US mainland from his 2025-2026 world tour out of fear that ICE could raid his concerts and target Latino fans, per Variety and CNN. This reflects his broader immigrant-rights orientation, not an Israel-specific stance.
- October 3, 2025: In a Billboard Arabia interview relayed by Arab News, Bad Bunny welcomes Palestinian listeners connecting with "DtMF", calling it "really beautiful to see so many people ... from Palestine connecting with that song". It is the closest thing to a direct comment from him touching the region, and it is sympathetic to Palestinians, not Israel.
- February 1, 2026: Debí Tirar Más Fotos wins the Grammy for Album of the Year, the first Spanish-language album ever to do so, as noted by The Times of Israel. The winning album includes the track co-produced by the openly Israeli producer Yuval Chain.
- February 8, 2026: Bad Bunny headlines the Super Bowl LX halftime show in Santa Clara and raises the Puerto Rican flag as a statement of cultural identity, per AOL (AP wire) and NPR. He makes no explicit Israel or Palestine statement during the performance; commentary tying it to the conflict came from outside observers, not from him.
Who he is, and where the boycott talk comes from
Bad Bunny is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a Puerto Rican rapper and singer and one of the most-streamed artists in the world. He is not Jewish and has no known Jewish heritage. His public identity centers on Puerto Rican culture, language, and identity, and on a broad progressive, immigrant-rights, social-justice orientation. On the Israel-Palestine question his visible leanings are pro-Palestinian in a cultural, solidarity sense rather than through formal political statements: "DtMF" was embraced across Gaza and Lebanon, and in the Billboard Arabia interview he warmly acknowledged Palestinian fans. There is no evidence he has ever performed in Israel, endorsed it, or been publicly asked to boycott it.
A genuine nuance runs the other way. Haaretz and The Times of Israel document that Yuval Chain, an openly Israeli and Zionist producer (raised in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv), co-produced "El Clúb" on the Grammy-winning album, and Bad Bunny did not distance himself from Chain despite online boycott pressure on the producer. Meanwhile, the "Bad Bunny Israel" and "boycott" talk online comes mainly from pro-Palestinian activist framing and from TikTok and fan-account clips claiming he displayed a Palestinian flag at concerts. Those specific flag clips are not confirmed by any major outlet, so we treat them as unverified.
The bottom line
Bad Bunny does not support Israel in any documented way, and his cultural sympathies lean pro-Palestinian: his music became a Gaza anthem and he embraced Palestinian fans. But the record is softer than the viral claims suggest. He has issued no formal political statement on the conflict, the "Palestinian flag at his concert" clips are social-media only and unverified by reputable outlets, and he notably kept working with an openly Israeli producer on his award-winning album. The fair characterization: not an ally of Israel, culturally sympathetic to Palestinians, but not a documented boycott activist either.
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Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
