Paramount pushed back Saturday after actor Mark Ruffalo invoked the Israel-Gaza conflict while attacking the Ellison family’s proposed Warner Bros.Discovery merger, accusing the Marvel star of injecting "antisemitic tropes" into what it described as a corporate dispute."[The company is] troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute," a spokesperson for the company said, according to Variety."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."CALIFORNIA AG ROB BONTA FACES ‘POLITICAL FAVOR’ CLAIMS OVER NETFLIX-LINKED $1M TRAIL IN PARAMOUNT SUITMark Ruffalo of 'I Know This Much Is True' appears onstage during the HBO segment of the 2020 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on Jan.
15, 2020 in Pasadena, Calif.(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)The spokesperson added that the company does not "tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone."Curtis Houck, managing editor at the Media Research Center's NewsBusters, told Fox News Digital: "Paramount Skydance was absolutely right to respond to this actual, serious anti-Semitic smear," Houck said."The left lazily cries anti-Semitism when the right criticizes George Soros, but here it's absolutely warranted in the level of detail about Oracle seeming having mythical powers to team up with the world's only Jewish state to supposedly commit genocide.
Because Paramount Skydance is the currently one of the bad guys in the eyes of the left, there's little chance Ruffalo will face sustained pushback from the liberal elitist press."Paramount's comments came after Ruffalo took to Instagram to sound off on the potential merger that has caused a stir in some circles, including among several state attorneys general.Ruffalo wrote of Oracle, "This is the company that Larry Elli...