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<\/a><\/p>\nAdam Brody attends a TV Academy screening and Q&A for “Nobody Wants This” at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, May 22, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Leon Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cPut me down as thinking it\u2019s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine,\u201d Brody said in a new interview with GQ. \u201cIt\u2019s awful that it\u2019s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it\u2019s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago.\u201d <\/p>\n
Brody said he has spoken about his opinions on Israel privately, but until now had not \u201cspoken much about it publicly.\u201d He added that he hoped for another presidential administration to \u201ccorrect some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jewish actor plays Los Angeles-based rabbi Noah Roklov in the hit Netflix show, which returns for a third season on Oct. 22. It\u2019s the latest in a string of Jewish roles that made him famous, including Seth Cohen in \u201cThe O.C.\u201d and Seth Morris in \u201cFleishman Is in Trouble.\u201d In real life, Brody has said he is an atheist who \u201cbarely got bar mitzvahed and retained nothing from it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Brody told GQ that the Gaza war, alongside other national and global crises, has revealed \u201cmore conservative\u201d views among his Hollywood peers in recent years. <\/p>\n
\u201cBetween COVID, a second Trump term, Israel-Gaza, it\u2019s really brought out some different beliefs that I was ignorant to, and then disheartened by,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza have divided the entertainment industry. While celebrities such as Jerry Seinfeld, Gal Gadot and Amy Schumer have voiced support for Israel since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, other Jewish actors have said that Israel is guilty of genocide in the retaliation that followed, including Hannah Einbinder and Wallace Shawn. Einbinder was among about 100 people arrested during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.<\/p>\n
The genocide accusation is heavily disputed. A United Nations Commission of Inquiry, along with international and Israeli human rights groups, has concluded that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza fit that description. However, the International Court of Justice has not yet issued a final judgment on allegations of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel.<\/p>\n
Israel has strongly rejected the accusation. Netanyahu in his U.N. address last week called it \u201cthe greatest lie of the 21st century,\u201d saying that Israel \u201cprevented genocide\u201d by protecting Palestinians in Gaza while Hamas \u201cused Palestinian civilians as human shields.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brody, Netflix and representatives from \u201cNobody Wants This\u201d did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n