“ Hacks ” star Hannah Einbinder has won her first Emmy, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the Sunday ceremony. She closed her speech with a shout out to the Philadelphia Eagles, and the first overtly political moment of the ceremony, saying “Go Birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine.” The profanity was muted on the telecast, but the rest of her message made it through.
The actor’s pronouncement follows the announcement of an open letter signed by 3,900 industry figures (including Einbinder) declaring they will not work with Israeli institutions and film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Paramount, the parent company of this year’s Emmy’s broadcaster CBS, was the first major studio to respond to the letter, condemni