Hannah Einbinder has issued her first public statement since police arrested her on Thursday during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's appearance in New York.

The "Hacks" star posted a statement to her Instagram story calling on followers to focus on "the devastating genocidal war Israel is waging against the people of Palestine and Southern Lebanon" rather than on the arrests themselves. "Let us not mistake the spectacle for the story," Einbinder wrote.

The New York Times reports that about 100 protesters were arrested. Einbinder had been demonstrating alongside comedian Sarah Sherman and actor Susan Sarandon, among others.

"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 to 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," Einbinder wrote in her post.

She then turned her criticism to the U.S. government. "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," Einbinder continued.

"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 wrote. "Let us not mistake the spectacle for the story: genocide is the headline, and it is time for it to end."

Netanyahu addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York, where he dismissed the demonstrators as "phony human rights protestors." He asked where the protesters had been when Iranian security forces killed thousands in January.

"Did you organize mass rallies, hunger strikes?" Netanyahu asked in his speech. "Did you protest outside the Iranian mission to the U.N.?"

Einbinder's arrest and her refusal to let it dominate the news cycle mark a deliberate shift of attention from celebrity spectacle to policy — a framing that puts pressure on how U.S. media and politicians cover the war in Gaza going forward.