{"id":69153,"date":"2026-08-23T02:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69153\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:04:20","slug":"mark-ruffalo-fires-back-after-paramount-slammed-him-as-antisemitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69153\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo Fires Back After Paramount Slammed Him as ‘Antisemitic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMark Ruffalo<\/a> has fired back at Paramount<\/a> after the company slammed the actor as \u201cantisemitic\u201d for accusing David and Larry Ellison of \u201cpowering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest,\u201d Ruffalo wrote on X Saturday morning. \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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, the actor posted a clip<\/a> of a Paramount board member, Safra Catz, outlining \u201creally profoundly scary technologies\u201d that Oracle used to help the Israeli military after the Oct. 7 terror attack. Ruffalo likened the elder Ellison to a \u201cclassic oligarch\u201d and warned of the consequences if Paramount and Warner Bros. are allowed to merge.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country,\u201d Ruffalo added. \u201cScrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle\u2019s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Ruffalo\u2019s initial post, a spokesperson for Paramount said in a statement <\/a>that the company is \u201ctroubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like \u2018genocide\u2019 and \u2018apartheid,\u2019 applied to a corporate transaction, aren\u2019t just wrong \u2014 they\u2019re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn\u2019t deserve a response in kind \u2014 and to be clear, we don\u2019t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo has fired back at Paramount after the company slammed the actor as \u201cantisemitic\u201d for accusing David…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,27974,9,296,7],"class_list":["post-69153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-headlines","tag-mark-ruffalo","tag-news","tag-paramount","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117142373987874067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}