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. “Criticizing 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.”
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.
