Hannah Einbinder went viral after her acceptance at the 77th Emmy Awards, where she won outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for her role as Ava Daniels on Hacks. It was her first Emmy win.
After thanking the creators and cast, Einbinder delivered the night’s first political remarks. “I just want to say, finally, go Birds, F— ICE, and free Palestine. Thank you,” she said, referencing the nationwide immigration raids in the U.S. and the war in Gaza. Watch below:
Speaking to Variety after her speech, Einbinder said she wanted to address the conflict because it is “an issue very dear to my heart.” She added, “I have friends in Gaza who are working as front-line 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 continued, “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 costar Meg Stalter arrived in a T-shirt and jeans and carried a black purse that read “CEASE FIRE!” Monsters star Javier Bardem wore a kaffiyeh 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 and institutions, that are whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime.”
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