Adam Brody's TV Mom Calls His Gaza Stance 'Out of Hitler's Playbook'

Tovah Feldshuh, who plays Brody's mother on Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This,' answered his GQ call for a free Palestine.

On Netflix's "Nobody Wants This," Tovah Feldshuh plays Bina Roklov, mother of Adam Brody's rabbi. On Sunday, she went public against the actor who plays her son.

"To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild. It's right out of Hitler's playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator," Feldshuh told the New York Post, TheWrap reported Monday. She was responding to Brody's GQ interview from last month, and Deadline and Variety ran the same remarks.

This is what Brody said. Invited by GQ to weigh in on Gaza, he answered in two short sentences, according to TheWrap: "Put me down as thinking it's a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine." He went on to call all the death and misery awful, and said the moment felt like a breaking point that should've come long before.

He also told GQ he hoped another administration would fix policies he said were keeping things in Gaza that bad, Deadline reported. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he said he'd talked about the war plenty in private but hadn't said much in public until then.

Both actors are Jewish, and Feldshuh's case rests on that. She told the Post that genocide charges hit the Jewish community differently when Jewish people make them, TheWrap reported. She also argued that Israel's survival is crucial to the democratic world, and she pointed to the political idea called the horseshoe effect to say socialism and antisemitism are drifting toward each other.

Feldshuh is 77 and Brody is 46, Entertainment Weekly noted. EW also pointed out that when she warned that people with big platforms who spread falsehoods do the most damage, she didn't name Brody.

The fight is over one word, and the word is disputed far from Hollywood. JTA reported that a United Nations Commission of Inquiry and human rights groups, Israeli ones among them, have concluded that Israel's actions in Gaza meet the definition of genocide. The International Court of Justice hasn't issued a final judgment on South Africa's genocide case, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his U.N. speech to call the charge the biggest lie of the century.

Feldshuh is now the third person connected to the show to answer Brody in public. First came Rabbi Steve Leder, the technical adviser who checked season one's Judaism for authenticity. In an Instagram video, Leder called Brody's phrasing flippant, "like you're asking for a table for two at Craig's," TheWrap reported.

Next was Erin Foster, the show's creator, speaking in a clip from the Oct. 27 episode of the "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast; Entertainment Weekly released the clip. She said she loves Brody, she disagrees with him and that's fine, and she compared the set to dinner tables where people argue. A representative for Brody didn't immediately respond to TheWrap. The show's third season premiered on Netflix on Oct. 22.

Feldshuh told the Post she'd handle politics on set by switching channels and doing her work. Her job, she said, as Bina and as herself, is "to love the people on set at my place of work, to be kind," Variety reported.

Source: TheWrap, retrieved October 27, 2026. Other sources: Deadline, Variety, TheWrap (2), jta.org, yahoo.com.