Ben Platt Stands Up For Palestine After His Father Reportedly Scorned Rachel Zegler For Doing The Same

Actor and singer Ben Platt wrote about his support of Palestine after his producer father reportedly flew to New York to ask actor Rachel Zegler to take down her “free Palestine” social media post.

“As a queer Jew [whose] personal connection to Judaism is cultural, emotional and interpersonal and is not defined for me by the state of Israel, I have felt long alienated from this conversation and from a lot of people in my earliest community who feel differently, sometimes to a dogmatic extent,” Platt wrote Monday on Instagram, according to screenshots.

His note was shared along with screenshots from a speech given by actor Hannah Einbinder, in which she said her queerness is a “tradition of social justice,” as well as her Judaism, and that she is “horrified” of the Israeli government’s “massacre” of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Platt shared part of the text from Einbinder’s speech from the Human Rights Campaign dinner in March on his Instagram stories, including the part where she said her “condemnation of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza” is not despite what she learned in Hebrew school, “but because of it.”

Social media users praised Platt for speaking up. A few weeks prior, Variety published a story that reported that Platt’s father, Marc Platt, who was a producer of Disney’s live-action “Snow White” film starring Zegler, flew to New York to ask Zegler to take down a free Palestine social media post.

After fans came to Zegler’s defense on social media, Ben Platt’s brother Jonah Platt wrote in a since-deleted comment on Instagram that Zegler’s “actions clearly hurt the film’s box office” and that Zegler “hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful.” The host of the podcast “Being Jewish with Jonah Platt” reportedly ended his comment with, “Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.”

Jonah Platt’s rep told HuffPost that Jonah Platt can’t comment on family members, but he’s “always happy” to discuss Judaism and Zionism.

Requests for comment from Ben Platt and Marc Platt reps weren’t immediately responded to.