A Hollywood industry group that includes producers Haim Saban, Lawrence Bender, Teddy Schwarzman and others released a statement on Tuesday accusing actor Mark Ruffalo of using “antisemitic tropes” in recent criticism of the Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The statement came from a group calling itself The Brigade, which describes itself as “a group of nearly 1,000 members, friends, and allies of the Jewish community who are proud to be working in film, television, music, Broadway, social and digital, and other platforms in and around the entertainment industry.”
The Brigade condemned what they said was Ruffalo’s use of antisemitic tropes and narratives in an Instagram post last week in which he accused father-and-son moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”
In the actor’s August 21 post on Instagram, where he has 20 million followers, Ruffalo posted a past clip of Paramount board member Safra Catz, former CEO of Oracle, discussing “really profoundly scary technologies” that Larry Ellison’s Oracle used to assist the Israeli military following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, when 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage to Gaza.
