Tovah Feldshuh said it is “wild” to accuse the Jewish people of genocide, turning a fresh wave of backlash over Adam Brody’s Gaza comments into a sharper fight over Israel, Jewish identity and what is being said about whom. Feldshuh, who plays Bina on Nobody Wants This, said the charge lands directly on the Jewish community.
Brody set off the dispute in a September interview with GQ when he said, “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” and added, “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.” His remarks drew condemnation from Steve Leder, who called them “truly shocking” and “disgusting” in a recent Instagram video.
The clash matters now because Nobody Wants This returned for Season 3 on Oct. 22, putting its cast back in the center of a debate that has followed the show since Season 1. The series, built around an interfaith romance, has also become a lightning rod over Jewish identity and Israel, with Brody’s character Noah Roklov and Feldshuh’s Bina sitting at the center of that friction on screen.
Feldshuh did not treat Brody’s comments as a political critique alone. She said accusing Jews of genocide was “right out of Hitler’s playbook,” argued that it “makes a difference to the [Jewish] community,” and said people with large platforms who spread such claims do the most damage. In her telling, the problem is not just the words themselves but the way they shift blame from the conduct of Israel to Jews as a people.
That is the line she is drawing while working on the show. Feldshuh said her strategy on set is “to switch channels and do my job,” adding that her task, as Bina and as Tovah, is to be kind to the people around her. She also said the perseverance of Israel is crucial to the democratic world and the free world, and that the United States needs Israel as much as Israel needs the United States.
What remains unanswered is how Brody plans to handle the fallout, if at all. For now, Feldshuh has made her position plain: the off-screen dispute is no longer just about Gaza, but about the language being used to define Jews, Israel and the people standing beside them.
