{"id":201359,"date":"2026-08-25T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/201359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:43:08","slug":"hannah-einbinder-defends-mark-ruffalo-from-paramount-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/201359\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Einbinder Defends Mark Ruffalo From Paramount Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHannah Einbinder<\/a> has come out strongly in defense of Mark Ruffalo<\/a> as the actor faces an accusation of \u201cantisemitism\u201d from Paramount<\/a> Skydance over his opposition to the studio\u2019s deal for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount accused Ruffalo of antisemitism after the actor drew links between Larry Ellison\u2019s tech giant Oracle and the Israeli military<\/a>. Larry Ellison is the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison<\/a> and provided much of the funding that allowed David Ellison\u2019s Skydance to merge with Paramount Global in 2025 and is also heavily involved in the financing of Paramount\u2019s merger with WBD.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the weekend, Ruffalo fired back at Paramount<\/a>, saying that the studio accusing him of antisemitism is \u201cappalling and fundamentally dishonest.\u201d \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 said in a viral X post that has now been viewed by 30 million users, retweeted over 163,000 times and liked over 861,000 times.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, Einbinder, the Emmy-winning Hacks actress, became one of the highest-profile Hollywood stars to publicly defend Ruffalo. The actress, a longtime supporter of Palestinian rights and a fierce critic of Israel\u2019s conduct in Gaza, posted a lengthy message of support for Ruffalo on her Instagram Stories. In the message, Einbinder firstly thanked Ruffalo for drawing \u201ca connection between the Ellisons providing military technology to Israel during a genocide and their unprecedented media takeover,\u201d going on to say that the Paramount-WBD merger is \u201ca dangerous consolidation of power that could ultimately be used against us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn their criticism of Ruffalo, the Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center said<\/a> the actor \u201cinvoking Israel in an issue where it is completely irrelevant is a textbook case of obsession and demonization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEinbinder, who is Jewish, pushed back against such notions, writing in her message that \u201cthe idea that [Ruffalo] only said these things because the Ellisons are Jewish is LUDICROUS. Is it also antisemitic to point out that Safra Catz, the Oracle executive vice chair who boasted about the \u201cprofoundly scary technology\u201d provided to the IDF, also sits on Paramount\u2019s board? Or that Larry Ellison has been buying favor with Trump by donating tens of millions to his political efforts for years? Or that he once offered [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] a lucrative Oracle post?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma actress then clarified that, \u201cThis is criticism of RIGHT WING technofeudalist oligarchs who are in the process of carrying out the largest media acquisition in history. Period end of story. People are not too stupid to see these obvious connections. If you want to make it about the Ellisons being Jewish, then you are the one being antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEinbinder then centered the conversation back to Paramount\u2019s merger with WBD and how it was bad for Hollywood workers. \u201cAs Mark has been saying for months, opposing this merger is also about fighting for the working class of Hollywood: the crews and other workers that we artists claim to care so much about, who could lose thousands of jobs if it goes through.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe signed off her message with praise for Ruffalo. \u201cAll of us artists could stand to be more like Mark, willing to speak out for oppressed people everywhere, even when powerful people try to bully us into silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead Einbinder\u2019s full message below: <\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m so grateful that Mark Ruffalo drew a connection between the Ellisons providing military technology to Israel during a genocide and their unprecedented media takeover\u2014and pointed out that this is a dangerous consolidation of power that could ultimately be used against us.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe idea that he only said these things because the Ellisons are Jewish is LUDICROUS. Is it also antisemitic to point out that Safra Catz, the Oracle executive vice chair who boasted about the \u201cprofoundly scary technology\u201d provided to the IDF, also sits on Paramount\u2019s board? Or that Larry Ellison has been buying favor with Trump by donating tens of millions to his political efforts for years? Or that he once offered Netanyahu a lucrative Oracle post?<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is criticism of RIGHT WING technofeudalist oligarchs who are in the process of carrying out the largest media acquisition in history. Period end of story.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeople are not too stupid to see these obvious connections. If you want to make it about the Ellisons being Jewish, then you are the one being antisemitic.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd i\u2019ll say it till i\u2019m blue in the face: every time zionists equate criticism of israel, its genocide, or anyone who supports it to antisemitism, they rob the word of all of its meaning. For those of us who ACTUALLY care about jewish safety, we want that word to mean something so that when jews are actually in danger it\u2019s taken seriously.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd, as Mark has been saying for months, opposing this merger is also about fighting for the working class of Hollywood: the crews and other workers that we artists claim to care so much about, who could lose thousands of jobs if it goes through.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of us artists could stand to be more like Mark, willing to speak out for oppressed people everywhere, even when powerful people try to bully us into silence. Visibility is a responsibility. Those of us with a platform need to use our voices before speaking out is outlawed altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Einbinder has come out strongly in defense of Mark Ruffalo as the actor faces an accusation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[167],"tags":[1497,18286,4267,9410,813,47137,6946,3039],"class_list":["post-201359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-larry-ellison","tag-david-ellison","tag-hannah-einbinder","tag-international","tag-israel-gaza-conflict","tag-larry-ellison","tag-mark-ruffalo","tag-paramount","tag-paramount-skydance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117155738831995253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}