Nobody Wants This star Tovah Feldshuh has thoughts on her fellow celebrities calling the war in Gaza a genocide

For a show about an interfaith romance, “Nobody Wants This” has become an unlikely battleground over Jewish identity and Israel — perhaps even between some of its biggest stars.As the hit Netflix rom-com returned for season three on Oct.22, one of its stars found himself at the center of a political firestorm.

Adam Brody, who plays progressive California rabbi Noah Roklov, accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in a September interview with GQ.“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody said.“Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”The Brody backlash has been fierce.

Steve Leder, senior rabbi emeritus of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, who coached Brody on set as a rabbinical consultant for Season 1, condemned Brody’s comments in a recent Instagram video, describing them as “truly shocking” and “disgusting.” The series follows Rabbi Noah Roklov (Brody), who leaves his long-term Jewish girlfriend Rebecca (Emily Arlook) in pursuit of Joanne (Kristen Bell), a non-Jewish sex podcaster.Their relationship is complicated by Noah’s mother, Bina, a strong-willed Soviet émigré played by veteran Broadway, television and film actress Tovah Feldshuh, who is fiercely devoted to Jewish continuity. Feldshuh has her own thoughts on the genocide controversy. “To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” she told The Post.

“It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook.You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.”  Brody’s remarks concerned Israel’s conduct in the war following the Hamas-led Oct.

7 massacre, rather than Jews collectively.Feldshuh, however, framed such accusations as against the Jewish people.Asked whether accusations of genocide are worse when they come from Jewish people themselves, Feldshuh said it “makes a difference to the [Jewish] community,” adding that people with large platforms who feed their followers such falsehoods do the most damage, though she did not name Brody...