Mark Ruffalo hulks out with hate with antisemitic rant on Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Are you against “crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world”?Excellent! You have your share of targets to protest — like Egypt, which systematically arrests its labor leaders, or Turkey, where criticizing a corporation is likely to land you in jail.Or you can, ya’ know, do the trendy thing and blame the Jews.Mark Ruffalo sure did.Sounding like he was reading from a Mad Libs book containing just about every laughable antisemitic accusation out there, the actor argued on social media that if we’re not too careful, those sinister Yids would soon have us all under their boots.The context for his meltdown was Paramount’s proposed $110 billion merger with Warner Bros., which he opposes.Why? Rather than argue about facts and back up his opinion with solid reasoning, Ruffalo shared a video popularized by pro-Palestinian activists of Safra Catz, the former CEO of Oracle.The tech giant, you may recall, was founded by Larry Ellison, whose son, David, is behind the Paramount bid.And Oracle, Ruffalo roared, is a bad company, selling technology to Israel, and is therefore complicit in powering “what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression.”Let Ellison have too much power, Ruffalo continued, and disaster will ensue.“Larry Ellison will own most of ‘Para Bros,’ ” he thundered.“Larry is a classic Oligarch.

They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance.”Hear that, boys and girls? “They” are crushing the poor, noble workers because “They” control all the money and all the power in the world.This rant sounded much better in the original German.Paramount soon fired back.“We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute,” a company representative said in response.“Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’...