Mark Ruffalo has fired back at Paramount after the company slammed the actor as “antisemitic” for accusing David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.” “The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest,” Ruffalo wrote on X Saturday morning. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.
Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.” On Saturday, the actor posted a clip of a Paramount board member, Safra Catz, outlining “really profoundly scary technologies” that Oracle used to help the Israeli military after the Oct. 7 terror attack. Ruffalo likened the elder Ellison to a “classic oligarch” and warned of the consequences if Paramount and Warner Bros. are allowed to merge. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.” After Ruffalo’s initial post, a spokesperson for Paramount said in a statement that the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute.
Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”
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