January 1, Actor Slams Israel After Playing Rabbi Role

Wyatt’s Take

• Hollywood star uses his TV role to push false claims about Israel
• Real rabbi who helped the show calls out the actor for spreading lies
• Celebrities should keep quiet when they don’t know the facts

Adam Brody played a rabbi on Netflix and now he is telling people Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A real rabbi who worked on the show is calling him out for it.

Brody gave an interview where he said he wants a free Palestine and called the war genocide. He said the death and misery reached a breaking point that should have come sooner.

Rabbi Steve Leder worked as a consultant on the show. He helped make sure the Jewish parts were right and Brody’s character looked real.

Leder posted a video online and said the actor’s comments were flippant and wrong. He told Fox News Digital that the word genocide has a real meaning and Brody used it the wrong way.

“The flippancy was adding insult to injury, in my opinion, and needed to be addressed,” Leder said. “That is a word and that is a geopolitical situation that warrants anything but flippancy.”

Leder pointed out that genocide means trying to wipe out a whole group of people because of their race or religion. He said Israel’s fight is only against Hamas, not against any religion or race.

“Israel’s war is against Hamas. It is not against a nationality, it is not against an ethnicity, it is not a race, it is not against a religion,” Leder told Fox News Digital.

The rabbi said the worst part was Brody acting like his opinion was the truth. He said famous people should be careful when they talk about things they do not understand.

“If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing,” Leder said in his video.

Leder said it hurts more because Brody played a rabbi on TV. People who watch the show might think the actor really knows about Jewish life and faith.

“Actors are not their roles, and we all understand that, they’re acting. But in the minds of the public, in the mind of much of the public, it’s sometimes hard to separate those two things,” Leder said. “And when you have someone who is imagined — and I use that word deliberately — imagined to be an authority presenting opinions as facts, it’s doubly painful.”

The rabbi said it is fine for people to have opinions, but they should not pretend those opinions are facts. He said Brody crossed that line.

Wyatt Matters

Middle America still believes in telling the truth and standing with allies who fight terror. When Hollywood stars twist facts for attention it only deepens the divide between regular folks and the entertainment elite.