Hannah Einbinder: queer ✅ Jewish ✅ American ✅ Emmy winner ✅
How does this add up?
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A queer person supporting an ideology that executes LGBTQ people.
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A Jewish person defending a group whose charter calls for Israel’s destruction and the death of Jews.
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An American backing a culture that rejects freedom and liberty.
Influence is power. Words have consequences.
Hannah Einbinder, the queer Jewish American actress, made headlines when she capped her Emmy acceptance speech for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series with the words, “F**k ICE and free Palestine.”
Earlier, in March 2025, during her acceptance of the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award, she spoke passionately:
“As a queer person, as a Jewish person, and as an American, I am horrified by the Israeli government’s massacre of well over 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza. I am ashamed and infuriated that this mass murder is funded by our American tax dollars. It should not be controversial to say that we should all be against murdering civilians.”
I find myself perplexed.
What would drive a queer person to support an ideology that openly denounces LGBTQ individuals and punishes them with death?
What would drive a Jewish person to support a territory governed by a group whose charter calls for the extinction of Israel and the death of Jews—a group that targets Israeli civilians with missiles and has executed ethnic cleansing attacks against men, women, and children?
What would drive an American to embrace a culture and ideology so diametrically opposed to the principles of individual freedom and liberty that our nation was founded upon?
Is it peer pressure? Self-serving career interests? Ignorance—or outright stupidity?
Bottom Line
The intersection of celebrity, activism, and ideology is complicated—but when public figures speak, their words carry weight. When they champion causes that contradict their own identities or the values of their nation, it raises questions about both awareness and responsibility.
We can admire talent, but we must also ask: when influence meets ideology, where should conscience come in?
Probably, eighty percent or more agree with Einbinder’s bullshit. But what about the millions watching? How many impressionable minds, chilling on the couch, will absorb the message by osmosis?
We are so screwed.
— Steve
