Adam Brody‘s outspoken support for Palestine has resulted in multiple cast and crew members from Nobody Wants This speaking out amid his role as a rabbi.
Brody, who had a resurgence after being cast as Rabbi Noah on the hit series streaming on Netflix, made headlines when he gave his opinion on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
“I have spoken a lot about it privately. I haven’t spoken much about it publicly,” he told GQ in October 2026. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He continued: “It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago. I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
At the time, Brody also elaborated on his approach to discussing politics in the public eye.
“I just answer the questions I’m asked,” he said. “I’m not wearing a pin, so I’m not inviting a certain question, and perhaps I should. I really admire people who do. But 99 percent of what I’m asked about is about the show. I’m not trying to plead ignorance — here we are doing a political interview, so it makes sense that we wade into this territory — but I’ve never ducked a question, really, not a political question anyway.”
Brody’s public support resulted in some of the cast and crew from Nobody Wants This speaking out. Keep scrolling for everything that has been said so far:
Tovah Feldshuh
“To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” Feldshuh recently told The New York Post in October. “It’s right out of [Adolf] Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.”
Feldshuh, who plays Brody’s onscreen mother, was asked whether accusations of genocide are worse when they come from Jewish people themselves, to which she replied, “[It] makes a difference to the [Jewish] community.” The actress noted that people with large platforms who spread this message do the most damage but she didn’t name Brody.
The actor hinted that political disagreements haven’t taken place on set as she has “to switch channels and do my job.”
“My job, as Bina but also as Tovah, is to love the people on set at my place of work, to be kind,” she added.
Erin Foster
The cocreator spoke out on the “complicated” situation regarding her and Brody’s different views.
“I think our work environment, our set is very similar to dinner tables around the world where people are having debate and discussion and disagreeing,” she said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast at the time. “While I love Adam, I also disagree with him. And that’s OK.”
The executive producer, who converted to Judaism before marrying music executive Simon Tikhman, reflected on her experience inspiring Nobody Wants This.
“I think that as the creator of the show, all I can say is that I want our Jewish fans to know that I see you and I hear you and I understand how you feel. And the show has always been and always will be a love letter to Judaism,” Foster explained. “That is why I made this show. It’s because of how beautiful of an experience I’ve had becoming Jewish and being a Jewish person, and sitting here right now at this time in the world where there is almost zero positive representation of Jewish people, I think it’s so important to have that.”
She concluded: “That being said, everyone is entitled to a different opinion than me. I can just tell you what I created this show for, what the intention of the show is.”
Rabbi Steve Leder
The rabbi who served as a consultant on depictions of Judaism for season 1 of called Brody’s comments “flippant and disgusting” while standing by his own view that “there is no genocide in Gaza.”
“You, by your own admission, are a relatively ignorant Jew, and your ignorance really showed the other day,” Leder said via Instagram in October. “If you’re going to use a word like genocide, you ought to know what it means.”
