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\n\tJim Berk, CEO of the\u00a0Simon Wiesenthal Center, is defending Paramount after the studio called Mark Ruffalo\u2019s anti-merger comments \u201cantisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWords matter, and so does the willingness to draw a line when legitimate debate gives way to antisemitic tropes,\u201d Berk wrote. \u201cWe commend Paramount for speaking clearly and refusing to allow prejudice to masquerade as political or corporate criticism. At a time when antisemitism is too often minimized, rationalized or repackaged in more socially acceptable language, this kind of moral clarity matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cInvoking 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,\u201d his statement concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this week, the Oscar-nominated actor, who has been an outspoken opponent of Paramount\u2019s $111 billion deal for Warner Bros., highlighted Larry Ellison\u2019s (Paramount CEO David Ellison\u2019s father) Oracle\u2019s ties to the Israeli military amid the Israel-Gaza war. Ruffalo resurfaced a clip from 2024 of former Oracle chief Safra Catz talking about \u201cprofoundly scary technologies\u201d the tech company had built in relation to Israel\u2019s war effort in Gaza. The actor also described the war as a \u201cgenocide\u201d that \u201cwas built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn response, Paramount clapped back, calling the Marvel star\u2019s remarks \u201cantisemitic.\u201d The studio\u2019s spokesperson\u2019s statement read in part, \u201cWe are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like \u2018genocide\u2019 and \u2018apartheid,\u2019 applied to a corporate transaction, aren\u2019t just wrong \u2014 they\u2019re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn\u2019t deserve a response in kind \u2014 and to be clear, we don\u2019t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tCreative Community for Peace, a Hollywood-based pro-Israel advocacy organization, has also called for Hollywood to boycott Ruffalo until the actor \u201cretract[s] these remarks and apologize[s],\u201d the group\u2019s executive director, Ari Ingel, wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMark Ruffalo\u2019s rhetoric has increasingly crossed the line from criticism of Israel into extremist and antisemitic messaging,\u201d Ingel also wrote, adding, \u201cPoint blank, he has been warned before about the consequences of this rhetoric, yet continues contributing to the toxic antisemitic atmosphere we are witnessing today. That makes him culpable. His argument 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.\u00a0Those echoes are impossible to ignore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, Ruffalo took to X to dismiss Paramount\u2019s claims that his comments were \u201cantisemitic\u201d as well as offer a distinction between his criticism of the Israeli military and his views about Jewish people. He wrote in part, \u201cThe accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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