{"id":260714,"date":"2026-08-23T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:08:10","slug":"pro-israel-group-calls-for-mark-ruffalo-boycott-over-ellison-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260714\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel Group Calls for Mark Ruffalo Boycott Over Ellison Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative Community for Peace, the Hollywood-based pro-Israel advocacy group, said enough is enough and called for a Mark Ruffalo boycott following his \u201cantisemitic\u201d remarks against the Ellison family and their pending Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. <\/p>\n

After the Marvel actor\u2019s incendiary comments against the deal on Friday \u2014 in which he drew a line from David and Larry Ellison\u2019s Oracle ties to what he called Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza \u2014 the long-running entertainment nonprofit called on Hollywood to rescind their support of Ruffalo and his work until he apologizes and retracts his statements. <\/p>\n

\u201cMark Ruffalo\u2019s rhetoric has increasingly crossed the line from criticism of Israel into extremist and antisemitic messaging,\u201d CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ingel added that his argument against Paramount\u2019s merger \u201cincreasingly fuses hostility toward Israel and Zionism with Jewish-associated wealth, media ownership, oligarchic power and ominous warnings about concentrated control into a single narrative.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThose echoes are impossible to ignore. Hollywood should not accept this kind of rhetoric from anyone. Mark Ruffalo should retract these remarks and apologize, and nobody in Hollywood should platform him until he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The organization drew its hard line against Ruffalo after the actor issued a statement of his own on Saturday defending his stance against the merger, maintaining that Paramount categorizing his remarks as \u201cantisemitic\u201d was \u201cappalling and fundamentally dishonest.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCriticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people,\u201d Ruffalo wrote in a lengthy statement on X<\/a>. \u201cThis critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

That statement came in response to TheWrap\u2019s exclusive reporting that Paramount deemed the remarks as \u201cantisemitic\u201d and \u201ca bridge too far\u201d in a statement of their own on Friday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t Ruffalo\u2019s first time going to bat for a cause he believes in. Creative Community for Peace reflected on Ruffalo\u2019s years in the spotlight as a vocal critic of Israel and its military action against Hamas in Gaza. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor nearly a decade, Ruffalo has supported BDS and campaigns to isolate and demonize Israel. In 2021, he accused Israel of committing \u2018genocide,\u2019 then apologized and admitted that the claim was \u2018not accurate,\u2019 \u2018inflammatory,\u2019 and was \u2018being used to justify antisemitism,\u2019\u201d Ingel said. \u201cInstead of becoming more careful with his words, he has repeatedly doubled down on his extremism, leading to his latest antisemitic attack on Larry and David Ellison.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingel pointed to specific phrases Ruffalo used in Friday\u2019s Instagram post in which he described Larry Ellison as a \u201cclassic oligarch\u201d and warned of people \u201cconsolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance.\u201d <\/p>\n

As for the Ellisons\u2019 continued ties to tech giant Oracle, which earlier this year touted how its \u201cprofoundly scary technologies\u201d<\/a> aided Israel\u2019s war effort, Ingel said Ruffalo was \u201crecklessly insinuating that the Ellisons have designs to brutalize people worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTaken together, his statements echo some of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories in history, depicting Jews as a wealthy and sinister elite who accumulate control over media, money and power, then use that control against society,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is also part of a broader pattern of extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In regards to Ruffalo maintaining that he is not antisemitic for being critical of the Ellisons, Ingel said, \u201cIntent does not erase impact. Repeatedly amplifying inflammatory falsehoods and rhetoric that mirrors historic antisemitic tropes helps normalize the violent anti-Jewish hatred we are seeing take hold once again around the world, regardless of how he chooses to describe his own motives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoint blank, he has been warned before about the consequences of this rhetoric, yet continues contributing to the toxic antisemitic atmosphere we are witnessing today. That makes him culpable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives for Ruffalo did not respond to TheWrap\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n

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