Artists Advocate for “Free Palestine” at Emmy Awards
(MENAFN) Several entertainers utilized their appearances to demand “Free Palestine,” donning keffiyehs and themed handbags, and shouting “CEASE FIRE!” during Sunday evening’s 77th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
“Hacks” actress Hannah Einbinder earned her inaugural Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series and concluded her acceptance speech with the words: “Go Birds, F--- ICE and Free Palestine.”
Backstage, while having her name engraved on the trophy, Einbinder elaborated on her remarks.
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture … is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state," she explained.
Actor Javier Bardem, also wearing a keffiyeh and expressing support for Film Workers for Palestine, stated on the red carpet: “Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza… Free Palestine!”
In the days preceding the Emmys, 3,900 industry professionals signed an open pledge vowing not to collaborate with Israeli institutions or film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
The pledge, made public on Monday by Film Workers for Palestine, cited examples of complicity such as “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”
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