Mark Ruffalo Rejects Paramount’s Claim His Anti-Merger Comments Were “Antisemitic”: “My Views Should Never Be Interpreted as Hostility Toward Jewish People”

Mark Ruffalo is rejecting Paramount‘s claim that his recent comments highlighting the role Larry Ellison’s Oracle played in the Israel-Gaza war were “antisemitic.”

“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.”

Ruffalo, a staunch opponent to Paramount’s $111 billion deal for Warner Bros., had recently shared on social media a clip from 2024 of former Oracle chief Safra Catz talking about “profoundly scary technologies” Oracle had built as Catz was speaking about Oracle’s tech in relation to the Israel-Gaza war. Ruffalo went on to call the war a “genocide” that “was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.”