Top Celebrities Demand “Free Palestine” at Emmy Awards
(MENAFN) At Sunday night’s 77th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, several prominent artists took to the stage and red carpet to deliver urgent calls for “Free Palestine,” donning symbolic keffiyehs and handbags while shouting “CEASE FIRE!”
Hannah Einbinder, star of Hacks, clinched her first Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. As she concluded her acceptance speech, she boldly declared: “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 said.
Oscar winner Javier Bardem also made a striking statement, appearing on the red carpet wearing a keffiyeh and aligning himself with Film Workers for Palestine. He said: “Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza… Free Palestine!”
In the days leading up to the ceremony, 3,900 entertainment industry figures signed an open pledge refusing to collaborate with Israeli institutions and film companies accused of being “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
The pledge, published Monday by Film Workers for Palestine and reported by an American magazine, asserts that complicity includes “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”
During an interview, Bardem emphasized the gravity of the situation: “What we are witnessing is a genocide. And as I said in your show, in 4k alive on a daily basis, this has to stop.”
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