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Actress Tovah Feldshuh has publicly criticized her Nobody Wants This co-star Adam Brody, calling his support for Palestinian statehood antisemitic and comparing his remarks to tactics used by Adolf Hitler. Feldshuh made the comments to The New York Post on Sunday, responding to statements Brody made during a GQ interview last month.
In that interview, Brody — who plays Rabbi Noah Roklov on the Netflix series — said he had avoided speaking publicly about the Israel-Gaza conflict before, but that it comes up “a lot” in his private life. He then stated his position directly. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody said. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine. 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.”
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Feldshuh Calls Genocide Accusation “Wild”
Feldshuh pushed back sharply against Brody’s characterization of Israel’s military campaign as genocide. “To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” she told The New York Post. “It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim, and you make the victim the perpetrator.”
She also noted that such accusations carry extra weight when they come from Jewish people themselves. According to Feldshuh, that dynamic “makes a difference to the [Jewish] community.” Brody is Jewish.
Feldshuh went further, expressing her broader views on Israel’s geopolitical importance. “I believe that the perseverance of the existence of the state of Israel is crucial to the well-being of the democratic world and of the free world,” she said. She added that while Israel needs the United States, the relationship runs both ways. “The United States needs Israel, believe me,” she said. She also warned of what she called a “horseshoe effect,” describing a convergence of socialism and antisemitism.
On-Set Relationship Remains Respectful
Despite her strong disagreement, Feldshuh said she remains committed to a respectful working relationship with Brody. In Nobody Wants This, she plays Bina Roklov, the mother of his character. “My job, as Bina but also as Tovah, is to love the people on set at my place of work, to be kind,” she said.
Feldshuh is not the only person connected to the show to respond to Brody’s comments. Earlier this month, series creator Erin Foster also addressed the situation publicly. Foster appeared on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast and took a notably more measured tone. “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. “While I love Adam, I also disagree with him, and that’s OK.”
Foster acknowledged the complexity of the issue without dismissing Brody’s perspective outright. “You know, it’s complicated,” she said. Her comments stood in clear contrast to the sharper language Feldshuh used in her New York Post interview.
The public disagreement highlights ongoing tensions within the entertainment industry over how public figures discuss the Israel-Gaza conflict. Brody’s original remarks in GQ drew significant attention, and responses from both Feldshuh and Foster suggest the debate is far from settled — even among colleagues who work closely together.
