Mark Ruffalo is firing back at Paramount after the company labeled him “antisemitic” for his accusations against David and Larry Ellison.
On Saturday (August 22), the Marvel actor took to his X account to respond to the accusations, saying, “The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest.”
Mark Ruffalo is responding to Paramount’s antisemitism claims
His statement on X continued.
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. his 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.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s 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.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Mark initially called out David and Larry Ellison regarding their involvement with the tech company Oracle
The initial back-and-forth started after the Task actor shared a clip of Safra Catz, a member of Paramount’s board and Oracle’s executive vice chair, talking about the “profoundly scary technologies” the tech company used to aide the Israeli military after the October 7, 2023 terror attack.
Mark then compared Larry Ellison, Oracle’s former CEO and a billionaire with a controlling stake in Paramount that is being managed by his son, David Ellison, to a “classic Oligarch.”
“They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance,” he wrote in his message.
“This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition,” he said, regarding Oracle. “These “really profoundly scary technologies” will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.”
You can read the entirety of his initial statement here.
A spokesperson for Paramount then issued a response to Mark‘s message, saying the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone,” per Variety.
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