“Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder is going viral for her Emmys acceptance speech, where she criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called to “free Palestine,” and gave a shout-out to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Einbinder won the award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for her role as Ava Daniels. It was her first Emmy win.
After thanking the creators and cast of the HBO Max show, Einbinder then segued into the night’s first political remarks. “I just want to say, finally, go Birds, F— ICE, and free Palestine. Thank you,” she said before walking away.
She told Variety that she wanted to talk about Palestine because it’s “an issue very dear to my heart.”
“I have friends in Gaza who are working as frontline workers, as doctors right now in the north of Gaza to provide care for pregnant women and for school children. To create schools in the refugee camps, and it’s an issue that’s really close to my heart for many reasons,” she said. “I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture are such an important and long-standing, basically, like, institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.”
Einbinder’s “Hacks” co-star Meg Stalter broke the formal dress code for the night, opting to wear a T-shirt and jeans with a black purse that said “CEASE FIRE!” while “Monsters” star Javier Bardem wore a keffiyeh on the red carpet.
“It feels good to bring the attention to where it really needs to be, which is Gaza,” he told “USA Today.”
He added, “Film workers for Palestine do not target any individuals based on identity. Film workers for Palestine target those complicit, film companies, institutions that are whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime.”
