Ben Platt Admits to Feeling 'Alienated' From Jewish Community, Voices Support for Palestinian Rights

Ben Platt is making rare comments about the Israel-Palestine conflict and sharing how he feels “alienated” by the Jewish community.

Ben‘s family has made headlines recently for being pro-Israel. If you didn’t know, his father Marc Platt is the producer of the new Snow White movie and reports claimed that he attempted to silence star Rachel Zegler from making pro-Palestine statements.

Ben‘s brother Jonah Platt, who hosts the “Being Jewish” podcast, slammed Rachel in social media comments.

Now, Ben is speaking out.

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“As a queer Jew who’s 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,” Ben wrote on his Instagram Stories (via Reddit).

Ben then shared Hannah Einbinder‘s recent speech at the Human Right Campaign dinner.

“My queerness is a tradition of social justice, as is my Judaism. To me these are traditions of humanity, of care for human life. All human life, equally,” Hannah said in the speech. “As a queer person, as a Jewish person, and as an American I am horrified by the Israeli government’s massacre of well over 65,000 Palestinians.”

Ben commended Hannah for her speech.

“I just wanted to thank Hannah for speaking directly and with heart in a way that made me feel seen and hopeful,” he said.

Watch Hannah‘s speech below.