Three groups, the Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the Creative Community for Peace, have joined to condemn Disney film star and Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Mark Ruffalo for his recent antisemitic comments.
As Breitbart News reported, last week, Ruffalo attacked Larry and David Ellison as “oligarchs” who are complicit in Israel’s supposed “genocide” in Gaza and blasted the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
But on Saturday, three pro-Jewish organizations came out in support of Paramount’s reply to Ruffalo’s antisemitic comments and blasted the actor, according to The Wrap.
“We commend (Paramount) for speaking clearly and refusing to allow prejudice to masquerade as political or corporate criticism,” the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement. “At a time when antisemitism is too often minimized, rationalized or repackaged in more socially acceptable language, this kind of moral clarity matters,” the statement continued. “Invoking Israel in an issue where it is completely irrelevant is a textbook case of obsession and demonization. Paramount was right to call it out. More leaders and institutions should have the courage to call antisemitism what it is, regardless of who is spreading it.”
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also added his voice to the discussion, writing, “The posts by Mark Ruffalo over the past 48 hours are cynical and sickening. Oppose the Paramount merger on the merits, find arguments grounded in facts and draw on what you know about the industry without engaging in antisemitic rhetoric. Introducing the Jewish state out of the blue when it’s entirely unrelated, making baseless claims about Israel, and then trying to avoid accountability by essentially claiming that ‘some of my best friends are Jewish’ is gaslighting 101.”
“Mark Ruffalo, your acting might be convincing on screen, but careless and hateful words like yours continue to put Jewish communities around the world at risk while antisemitic incidents are far too common,” he added.
Finally, the Creative Community for Peace called for a boycott of the antisemitic actor for his comments.
“Mark Ruffalo’s rhetoric has increasingly crossed the line from criticism of Israel into extremist and antisemitic messaging,” CCFP executive director Ari Ingel said in a statement.
Ingel went on to say that Ruffalo’s claims about the merger “increasingly fuses hostility toward Israel and Zionism with Jewish-associated wealth, media ownership, oligarchic power and ominous warnings about concentrated control into a single narrative.”
“Those echoes are impossible to ignore. Hollywood should not accept this kind of rhetoric from anyone. Mark Ruffalo should retract these remarks and apologize, and nobody in Hollywood should platform him until he does,” Ingel said.
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