Hannah Einbinder, the star of Hacks, was bleeped at the Emmys after making a statement on stage.
The 30-year-old actress stars as Ava Daniels in HBO’s Hacks, a drama-comedy series about a young writer (Einbinder) who teams up with an ageing comedian (Jean Smart) to improve her set.
On Sunday night, the star received a supporting actress primetime Emmy award for the latest season of the show, and made a statement at the end of her acceptance speech about Palestine and Ice that was partially bleeped.
‘Go Birds, F**k Ice, Free Palestine,’ she said.
The comment was met with huge applause from the audience as she called out Ice, the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement group, which has cracked down with immigration raids. Relighting fear and anger from and towards migrant workers, further dividing the country.
She also referenced her support for the Philadelphia Eagles and for Palestine as the conflict in Israel and Gaza continues.
Backstage, Hannah elaborated to the media: ‘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 [working] for schoolchildren to create schools in the refugee camps.
‘It’s an issue that’s really close to my heart for many reasons. 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 is such an important and longstanding … institution that is really separate to the ethno-nationalist state.’
To the event, she also wore a red Artists4Ceasefire pin. The pin calls for the US government to ask for ‘an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost.’
This isn’t the first time the star has been open about her support for Palestine. While accepting the HRC Visibility Award, she said in a speech: ‘As a queer person, as a Jewish person and as an American, I am horrified by the Israeli government’s massacre of well over 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
‘I am ashamed and infuriated that this mass murder is funded by our American tax dollars. It should not be controversial to say that we should all be against murdering civilians.’
She added: ‘I see it as antithetical to our deepest Jewish traditions to fall in line and not question the actions of a state enacting atrocities in our name. Israel’s actions are not in the name of Jewish safety, and it is the very conflation of Israel’s actions with the Jewish people that continues to endanger Jews.’
In May 2025, she also joined a number of actors in signing a letter criticising the film industry’s ‘passivity’ during the ongoing Gaza genocide.
Hannah wasn’t alone in calling for a ceasefire at the Emmys.
Too Much and Hacks actor Megan Stalter wore a purse with a piece of paper stuck to it that read ‘Ceasefire!’.
Javier Bardem, White Lotus stars Aimee Lou Wood and Natasha Rothwell, Ruth Negga of Presumed Innocent and Chris Perfetti from Abbott Elementary also wore the ceasefire pin on their Emmy outfits.
On the red carpet, Bardem told The Hollywood Reporter he ‘will never work with some companies now [who] are not condemning the genocide in Gaza.
‘Me not getting jobs is absolutely irrelevant compared to what is going on there.’
The award show saw history being made as Owen Cooper became the youngest ever male winner.
The 15-year-old star was just 14 years old when he filmed the Netflix megahit Adolescence, which cleaned up at the event with eight awards.
Severance also had huge success, winning eight of the 27 awards it was nominated for.
Britt Lower made headlines at the event with a hidden reference to the show as she read a speech from a piece of paper that read ‘Let me out.’
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