Several artists used their appearances to call for "Free Palestine,” wearing a keffiyeh and a handbag, saying "CEASE FIRE!” during Sunday night's 77th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
"Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder won her first Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series and closed off her acceptance speech by saying: "Go Birds, F--- ICE and Free Palestine.”
She later went on to explain her statement while getting her name chiseled on the trophy backstage.
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the State of Israel. Our religion and our culture are really separate from this sort of ethnonationalist state," she said.
Javier Bardem, wearing a keffiyeh and voicing his support for Film Workers for Palestine, announced on the red carpet entrance: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza ... Free Palestine!”
In the week leading up to the Emmys, 3,900 industry names signed an open pledge declaring that they will not work with Israeli institutions and film companies that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
The pledge statement, published on Monday by the organization Film Workers for Palestine, said that examples of complicity include "whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid and/or partnering with the government committing them.”
The pledge states that examples of complicity include "whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid and/or partnering with the government committing them,” according to Variety.
"What we are witnessing is a genocide. And as I said in your show, in four thousand people alive daily, this has to stop,” Bardem said during an interview.
He continued by stating that he won’t and cannot work with those who "justify or support the genocide.”
"I can't. That's as simple as that. We shouldn't be able to do that in this industry or any other. Today in Madrid, in Spain, the cycle, the bicycle tour, was stopped by thousands and thousands and thousands of people on the streets marching saying we can't allow the team of Israel to be in this tour,” Bardem said.
Megan Stalter of "Hacks” also posed on the red carpet holding a handbag that read "CEASE FIRE!” on a white background and bold characters.
