Hannah Einbinder’s Emmy acceptance speech was censored as she issued a fiery rallying cry against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The actor won her first Emmy on Sunday for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for the HBO series Hacks.
She closed her speech with a shout-out for her favorite NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, before being bleeped out on the live broadcast.
“Go Birds, f*** ICE and free Palestine,” Einbinder told the Hollywood crowd.
Under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, the Department of Homeland Security has been carrying out ICE raids across the country, notably in major cities such as Los Angeles.
Einbinder began the speech by joking about how she had lost in her category on three occasions previously.
“I was just really committed to the personal narrative that I had that it was actually cooler to continue to lose,” she said. “But this is cool too! This is also punk rock.”
She also thanked Hacks creators Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello “for changing my life in every conceivable way, but not just by giving me a great gig, but by being my friends and being my family,” before praising her costar and fellow winner Jean Smart, “who is like a sun, and I just get to stand in her warmth.”
Einbinder is a prominent pro-Palestine supporter and was among the 3,900 industry figures who recently signed an open letter saying they refused to work with Israeli institutions and film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
Paramount, the parent company of Emmy’s broadcaster CBS, responded to the letter condemning the boycott with a statement that read, in part, “We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.”
At last year’s Emmys, Einbinder’s mother, Laraine Newman, an original Saturday Night Live cast member, slammed The Bear after her daughter was beaten to Best Supporting Actress by Liza Colón-Zayas.
On X, Newman, 72, initially reacted with the forceful tweet: “F***. THE. BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
She later deleted that message, telling one follower: “I took it down. Not my best moment.”
She replaced it with a new message saying: “I think The Bear is a great show but IMHO it’s not a comedy- not even a dark comedy.”
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