Hannah Einbinder Is Willing to Risk Her Hollywood Career to Speak up for Palestine

Hannah Einbinder, the Emmy-winning star of Hacks, has been one of Hollywood’s most outspoken Jewish American voices on Palestine over the last two years.

She has repeatedly framed her advocacy as a moral obligation as a Jewish person, distinguishing Jewish identity from the Israeli state, which she has called an “ethnonationalist state.”

At the September 2025 Emmys, after winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks, she ended her acceptance speech with: “Go Birds, f**k ICE, and free Palestine.” Backstage, she explained: “It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.”

She has signed the Film Workers for Palestine pledge, which commits to boycotting Israeli film institutions “directly complicit in the genocide.” In October 2025, she also signed a pledge to boycott The New York Times over what she and others called anti-Palestinian bias in its Gaza coverage.

Her comments at Cannes came during the Kering Women In Motion Talk, where she also named Javier Bardem among the actors whose lead she follows. Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream VII in November 2023 after pro-Palestine Instagram posts. Susan Sarandon was dropped by United Talent Agency the same month over comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York.

She told the audience that Hollywood’s broader silence on Palestine “pisses me off,” noting that issues often only gain traction when they affect white men.