Rabbi who worked on Adam Brody's Netflix show slams actor over Gaza comments

"The flippancy was adding insult to injury, in my opinion, and needed to be addressed," Leder told Fox News Digital about why he posted the video to social media. "That is a word and that is a geopolitical situation that warrants anything but flippancy." 

The rabbi said that his main issue with Brody's remarks was that the actor presented his opinion as fact.

"This is where I felt that Adam Brody went terribly wrong. He presented an opinion as a fact. And that is a mistake for any of us who are in the public eye," Leder said.

In the show, Brody plays a rabbi who falls in love with an agnostic woman played by Kristen Bell, which is loosely based on the real-life romance between "Nobody Wants This" creator Erin Foster and her husband, Simon Tikhman.

Another element that added to the controversy over Brody's remarks is the fact that he plays a rabbi and has introduced many to Jewish culture through that role. Leder said it made the situation "doubly heartbreaking."

"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 pubic, it's sometimes hard to separate those two things," he 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."

Leder said public figures should stay away from discussing topics that they don't know enough about. In the video he released shortly after Brody's interview with GQ, Leder said, "If you know nothing about something, you should say nothing."