When Israeli writer and activist Hen Mazzig sat down with his husband Marc Jorden to draft the guest list for their wedding, the exercise became something else entirely. Both began realising just how many relationships they had lost.
That moment is at the heart of Uninvited, a new short documentary that follows the couple as they prepare for their big day while grappling with the personal fallout of Mazzig’s high-profile advocacy for Israel and the Jewish community in the years since the Hamas onslaught against Israel on October 7, 2023.
“I have lost friends and loved ones because of my identity and my public advocacy, but seeing that loss extend to Marc was devastating,” Mazzig told Page Six in an exclusive. “He did not choose a public life in the same way I did, yet he was forced to carry the social cost of loving me.”
Mazzig, a Mizrahi Jew of Iraqi and Tunisian descent, is one of the most recognisable Jewish voices online, with social media content that reaches tens of millions of users monthly across nearly a million followers.
“Losing people you love because you’re openly Jewish, or Jewish adjacent like my husband, is a grief most of us never expected to carry…”
The New York Times once described him as a “whisperer to the stars” for his work advising celebrities including Pink, Amy Schumer and Gal Gadot on communicating the nuances of the conflict.
He co-founded the Tel Aviv Institute, authored the bestselling book The Wrong Kind of Jew, and hosts the YouTube series And They’re Jewish, featuring candid conversations with Jewish public figures. In 2025, The Jerusalem Post named him among its 50 Most Influential Jews.
The kind of social cost depicted in Uninvited is something Mazzig has argued is far from unique.
In a USA Today opinion piece published days after the Bondi Beach Chanukah terror attack in December 2025, he wrote that the massacre was not a tragic anomaly but the predictable outcome of antisemitism being normalised, reframed and ultimately tolerated. He traced an escalating pattern, from vandalism and campus harassment to the rebranding of eliminationist language as political speech, arguing that silence from public figures creates the conditions in which violence becomes possible.
Mazzig has connections to the Australian Jewish community too, having spoken to the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies in 2020 to mark the exodus of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands.
“My grandmother still remembers the Farhoud that happened in June during Shavuot, how she saw a Jewish mother and her eight children being shot one after the other in the street, to see her best friend later that day, a teenage girl that was disabled, being raped,” he told those at the commemoration.
“She remembers the horrors and she remembers that this was the time that everything changed for them.”
“It is crucial for us to share these stories and to teach others and to educate about our connection to this land,” he continued, saying everyone has the ability to advocate, especially with social media, which is precisely what Uninvited reckons with.
The documentary captures those tensions through the couple’s own story.
Jorden, who is not Jewish, previously worked in fashion and had deep ties to the queer community in London, where the couple is based. Since October 7, nearly all of those friendships evaporated. In an earlier interview, Mazzig recalled apologising to his husband for the price his identity had exacted. Jorden’s response was simple. It was not about anything Mazzig had done, but about who he was.
But the film is not only about loss.
The couple married in Santorini, Greece, in September 2025, in a ceremony that wove together Jewish tradition and their queer idenitty, including a trans rabbi officiating under a chuppah. Both grooms broke the glass together.
For Mazzig, the grief Uninvited explores is not unique to him.
“Losing people you love because you’re openly Jewish, or Jewish adjacent like my husband, is a grief most of us never expected to carry,” he told Page Six.
He offered encouragement to others navigating similar experiences.
“The people who stay, and the ones who show up when you least expect it, become your chosen family. Don’t shrink yourself to keep anyone else comfortable.”
Speaking to the New York Times, Mazzig has said that throughout his life, people have taken issue with some part of who he is, whether his Mizrahi heritage, his gay identity, or his support for both Israel and Palestinian self-determination.
“I know how to be confident in standing up for what’s right without compromising my values,” he said.
In his Bondi op-ed, Mazzig framed the same resolve in the language of Chanukah. The deeper miracle of the holiday, he wrote, was not that a small flame burned longer than expected, but that someone chose to light it at all, knowing it might fail.
Uninvited makes a similar case. That the most powerful response to a world that punishes visible Jewish identity is to keep showing up, openly and without apology.
Uninvited is directed by Maya Schulefand and produced by Schulefand and Mazzig’s Mazzig Media, with support from Boo Productions.
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