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Tovah Feldshuh, as Bina Roklov, and Adam Brody, as her son, Rabbi Noah Roklov, in season three of Netflix romcom TV show 'Nobody Wants This' (Screenshot: YouTube/Netflix)

Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” may center on an interfaith romance, but questions of Jewish identity and Israel have unexpectedly taken center stage.

After star Adam Brody accused Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza and called for a “free Palestine,” veteran Jewish actress Tovah Feldshuh, who plays Brody’s mother on the show, pushed back.

“To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” said Feldshuh in an interview with The New York Post. “It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim, and you make the victim the perpetrator.”

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Weeks before the hit rom-com returned for season three to the streaming platform, Brody, who plays progressive California Rabbi Noah Roklov, was asked about the conflict.

“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide.…