Tovah Feldshuh has pushed back sharply after Adam Brody said in a September interview that he thinks the war in Gaza is a genocide and that he wants a free Palestine. Feldshuh, who plays Bina on the hit Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This, said accusing Jewish people of genocide is “wild” and added that it is “right out of Hitler’s playbook.”
Her comments land as the show returns for season three on Oct. 22, keeping Erin Foster's series at the center of a debate that now reaches well beyond television. Nobody Wants This follows Rabbi Noah Roklov and Joanne, an interfaith romance that has become a lightning rod for arguments over Jewish identity and Israel, and Feldshuh's remarks add a new public voice to that fight.
She was not speaking in soft terms. Feldshuh told The Post that people with large platforms who feed followers falsehoods do the most damage, then said she believes the survival of Israel is crucial to the democratic world and the free world. She also said, “Of course, Israel needs the United States, [but] the United States needs Israel, believe you me,” and described the moment as one where “socialism and antisemitism are trying to meet.”
That is where the dispute sharpens. Brody's remarks were aimed at Israel's conduct in the war after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre, while Feldshuh framed the issue as an attack on the Jewish people as a whole. Steve Leder had already called Brody's comments “truly shocking” and “disgusting,” so Feldshuh's response is not an isolated outburst but part of a widening split over where criticism of Israel ends and language about Jews begins.
For Erin Foster's show, the dispute now sits alongside the series itself. Nobody Wants This has drawn criticism before over portrayals of Jewish women, and now its cast and creative orbit are being pulled into a far broader argument. What remains unanswered is whether this round of reaction will fade with the season launch or keep following the show as the debate over Israel, Judaism and public speech keeps spilling into pop culture.
