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Hacks star Hannah Einbinder was arrested along with Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, Glennon Doyle and many others while protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stop at the United Nations in New York City this week - but she's reminding us they are not the story, the people of Palestine are.
In a post on her Instagram stories shortly after her arrest, Hannah said:
"If the pictures of my friends and me getting arrested in protest of Netanyahu's shameful visit to New York draw attention to anything, let it be the devastating genocidal war Israel is waging against the people of Palestine and Southern Lebanon - to the settler attacks, the home demolitions, the bombing of people as they sleep; to the crimes that happen every SINGLE day but garner almost no international press coverage."
Hannah's message continued to point out America's role in all of it:
"The US government has the power to bring an end to all of this killing, pillaging, and land theft, yet instead it chooses to welcome the butcher of Gaza with open arms. The fact that the orchestrator of all this bloodshed is roaming freely in our cities is an indictment of BOTH REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS who enable and protect architects of genocide like Netanyahu."
She ends her message, "Let us not mistake the spectacle for the story: genocide is the headline, and it is time for it to end."
In the Instagram post above, please note:
Photo 1: Hannah at a red carpet event wearing an pin.
Photo 2: Hannah protesting outside the UN holding a sign “End the genocide”.
Photo 3: Palestinians gather to receive free meals from a charitable soup kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 23, 2026. Amid ongoing shortages and difficult living conditions, displaced Palestinians rely on charitable kitchens and food distributions for meals.
Photo 4: A view of Palestinian displacement camps amid widespread destruction in Gaza City on August 29, 2026.
Photo 5: A young Palestinian girl fills containers with water on September 20, 2026 in Gaza City, Gaza. She is living at The Islamic University of Gaza which was heavily damaged by Israeli strikes and has now been repurposed into a makeshift shelter for hundreds of displaced Palestinian families.
(Feature Image Credit:MLM Images Los Angeles/Shutterstock.com)
