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\n Picture: Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Pictures<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n Even when the Mayor of Los Angeles and the highest three film chains just like the Paramount-Warner Bros merger, Mark Ruffalo doesn’t, particularly after the previous studio known as his criticism \u201cantisemitic.\u201d Earlier this week, Ruffalo criticized David Ellison and Paramount for getting Warner Bros utilizing cash from Oracle Applied sciences. He reshared a video by which Oracle\u2019s government vice chair Safra Catz mentioned Oracle had \u201cactually profoundly scary know-how\u201d out there to the Israeli army. \u201cThat is the corporate that Larry Ellison is utilizing to fund his son David\u2019s Warner Bros acquisition,\u201d Ruffalo wrote on Instagram Tales on August 21. \u201cThese \u2018actually profoundly scary applied sciences\u2019 will most probably be merged into one of many largest media conglomerates on this planet and sooner or later used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was constructed on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.\u201d<\/p>\n Paramount shortly responded, telling Deadline, \u201cWe’re, as at all times, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a enterprise dispute,\u201d mentioned a spokesperson. \u201cPhrases like \u2018genocide\u2019 and \u2018apartheid,\u2019 utilized to a company transaction, aren\u2019t simply fallacious \u2014 they\u2019re a bridge too far, and so they cheapen the very actual struggling these phrases are supposed to describe. This doesn\u2019t deserve a response in variety \u2014 and to be clear, we don\u2019t tolerate prejudice of any variety, in opposition to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n Ruffalo didn’t let Paramount have the ultimate phrase. On the morning of August 22, he denied the accusations, reiterating his unique level. \u201cThe accusation that I’m antisemitic is appalling and basically dishonest,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cCriticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a army know-how contract, or the executives who provide it isn’t the identical as criticizing Jewish individuals. This crucial and obligatory dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.\u201d He added, \u201cThe $111 billion deal would hand one household management over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed partially by overseas cash whose affect on editorial choices has by no means been totally defined to the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n This Monday, Paramount and the state of California will meet to debate settlement choices concerning the state\u2019s antitrust lawsuit in opposition to the studio.<\/p>\n The accusation that I’m antisemitic is appalling and basically dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a army know-how contract, or the executives who provide it isn’t the identical as criticizing Jewish individuals. This crucial and obligatory dialogue\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) August 22, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n