Hannah Einbinder rips Hollywood elites over Palestine silence: ‘They cannot utter a single word’
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Hannah Einbinder has called out Hollywood for not using their voice to support Palestine and oppose the ongoing Gaza war. The actress, 30, shared her frustrations on an episode of Zeteo’s ‘Beyond Israelism’ podcast, which was released in full on May 12.
Einbinder said, “It pi**es me off. Because I’m sitting here with [Algerian-Palestinian activist] Mahmoud [Khalil], who has so much to risk and who has risked so much and who has sacrificed so much… And I look at these people who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind and they cannot utter a single word.”
Hannah Einbinder shocked to see Hollywood's silence on Palestine
The ‘Hacks’ star continued that she’s unable to understand how influential people, people with privilege can stay silent on such a global issue.
“I really can’t understand it. And I hear people say that they don’t know enough and I — I don’t, it’s like, OK, so what do you do all day?” she stated.
Einbinder, who earlier went viral for saying “Free Palestine” during her acceptance speech at the Emmys, further shared that she “always resists the idea that what I am doing is in any way brave because I don’t want cowardice to be a metric by which I judge bravery.”
Hannah Einbinder says Hollywood only reacts to things that affect them directly
“What I am doing is having eyes and seeing reality and saying what I am seeing. And I think that so many people risk so much more in a tangible sense,” she added.
Further into the podcast, the Jewish star highlighted Hollywood celebrities’ hypocrisy as they stay silent on Palestine but when it comes to defending free speech under the Trump administration, they are extremely vocal.
“People in Hollywood, unfortunately, need these issues to affect a white person for them to see it as relating to them,” she claimed, before explaining, “Like, they see Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air suddenly, they see Stephen Colbert’s show being canceled by CBS, which is owned by the Ellisons, and they go, ‘How could this possibly happen?’”
“And it’s like, we know how because we saw students and professors and journalists and authors and Palestinian folks be silenced and fired and expelled and imprisoned… it took it happening to these white men for people to be like, ‘Oh my god,’” Einbinder added.
Einbinder’s statements came just before she’s all set to attend the 79th Cannes Film Festival as the star of ‘Teenage S** and Death and Camp Miasma’.
