Rabbi Consultant on ‘Nobody Wants This’ Criticizes Adam Brody for Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide’
Shiryn Ghermezian
Adam Brody at Netflix’s ”Nobody Wants This” screening at PaleyFest LA at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on April 8, 2026. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect
A rabbi who served as a consultant on the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” blasted the show’s lead actor, Adam Brody, in an Instagram video on Tuesday after the latter accused Israel of committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip.
In a new interview with GQ magazine, Brody, who is Jewish, spoke publicly for the first time about his thoughts on the Middle East conflict.
“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” the “OC” star told the publication. “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.”
Brody also said he wished for another presidential administration to “correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
Brody previously described himself to The New York Times as “not religious at all, a nonbeliever.” He told the same publication he “barely got bar mitzvahed and retained nothing from it.”
In the rom-com series “Nobody Wants This,” Brody plays Los Angeles-based Rabbi Noah Roklov, who falls in love with a non-Jewish podcaster named Joanne, played by actress Kristen Bell. The main tension in the show’s first season was whether Noah could be in a relationship with a non-Jew and still continue on his pursuit as a rabbi. The show’s third season premieres on Oct. 22.
Rabbi Steve Leder said he was the “technical advisor” for season one of “Nobody Wants This.” His job was to ensure that the show portrayed Judaism and Brody’s rabbi character authentically and respectfully. In an Instagram video, Leder, who is also the former senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in California, said Brody’s accusation about a genocide in Gaza was “truly shocking.”
“Not only because of your misuse and mischaracterization of the word genocide, there is no genocide in Gaza, there are genocides in other countries happening, but you failed to mention any of them,” Leder said. “You by your own admission are a relatively ignorant Jew and your ignorance really showed the other day.”
“And by the way, being so flippant about a word like genocide, is disgusting,” he added. “Here’s some more technical advice: If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing about it.”
“Nobody Wants This” is loosely based on the life of its creator, Erin Foster, who fell in love with a Jew — record-label owner Simon Tikhman — and converted to Judaism for him. Foster converted in Leder’s synagogue.
Brody has played a series of Jewish characters in the past, including Seth Cohen in “The OC” and Seth Morris in “Fleishman Is in Trouble.”
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