Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder detained following protest against Benjamin Netanyahu outside of United Nations
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Hannah Einbinder and Susan Sarandon were reportedly among the over 100 protesters detained by the New York Police Department on Thursday.
The actresses had been participating in a mass sit-in to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United Nations.
Elliot Page, Caleb Hearon, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker were also among those photographed at the protest.
Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder have reportedly been detained by the New York Police Department following a protest held outside of the United Nations.
The two actresses were part of a mass sit-in held outside of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The demonstrators were protesting against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
Photographers from the Associated Pressdocumented Sarandon as she was detained by police officers on Thursday. Meanwhile, social media footage captured Einbinder with her hands zip-tied behind her back as she was escorted away from the demonstration by police.
Entertainment Weekly reached out to representatives for Sarandon and Einbinder for comment.
Local outlets like the Gothamist and the New York Daily News reported that over 100 people were taken into custody after the protest. The NYPD could not confirm any specific arrests when reached by EW.
Protestors held signs that said, “End the Genocide,” “Stop Arming Israel,” “Fund People Not Bombs,” “Netanyahu Wanted for Genocide,” “Free Palestine,” “Stop Bombing Iran, Lebanon, Palestine,” and “Jews Say Stop Arming Israel.” In a report published in September 2025, a UN commission determined that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“We are here to protest the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu who is an architect of genocide supported by funding by the United States of America,” Einbinder said in a video shared to social media by Jewish Voice for Peace and the Sunrise Movement. “This is an American-Israeli genocide against Palestinians. We’re here saying no to wars on Iran and Lebanon and we are saying no to the genocide in Palestine.”
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Einbinder and Sarandon were among several celebrities who participated in the protest. Elliot Page, Caleb Hearon, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker were also pictured at the demonstration on Thursday. Representatives for Page and Nixon confirmed their presence at the protest but noted they were not detained.
Sarandon has been outspoken about her support for Palestinians. She recently shared that she has experienced professional retaliation for her beliefs.
“I’ve still had movies taken away recently, because there are agencies that are telling people not to hire me still,” Sarandon noted at a press conference for her new romantic drama, The Echo Chamber, which premiered at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 6. “But that’s the power structure.”
Meanwhile, Einbinder has also been a vocal advocate for Palestinians. She recently criticized Ed Sheeran for his lack of support for Macklemore, who was dropped from Sheeran’s Loop Tour after sharing pro-Palestinian messages onstage at a New Jersey show on Sept. 5.
The Hacks star also said at the 2025 Emmy Awards that the conflict in Gaza is “an issue that’s very dear to my heart.”
“I have friends in Gaza who are working as frontline workers, as doctors right now in the north of Gaza to provide care for pregnant women and for school children to create schools in the refugee camps,” she said at the time. “I feel it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing, basically, institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.”
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