FIRST ON FOX — A Rabbinic group is calling out some Jewish entertainers for "whitewashing antisemitism" by supporting actor Mark Ruffalo’s harsh opposition to the proposed Warner Bros.Discovery-Paramount merger.Dozens of Jewish entertainers and artists signed a letter Tuesday "proudly" voicing support for Ruffalo after he was accused of antisemitism when criticizing the proposed $111 billion merger.Coalition for Jewish Values, which represents over 2,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, is typically silent when a Hollywood figure says something it finds hateful about Jews or Israel.
But the group believes Ruffalo’s comments forced a group of Jewish Hollywood figures that have "little knowledge of Jewish history or the nature of antisemitism" to "deny obvious bigotry."MORE THAN 180 JEWISH ENTERTAINERS RALLY BEHIND ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IN PROTEST LETTERDozens of Jewish entertainers and artists signed a letter voicing support for actor Mark Ruffalo after he was accused of antisemitism in his opposition to the proposed Warner Bros.Discovery-Paramount merger.
(Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage)"Ruffalo did not merely criticize a business deal.In an August 22 Instagram post tying the Paramount-Skydance/Warner Bros.
merger to Oracle's work with Israel, Ruffalo claimed that the Ellison family — who are Jewish — were ‘powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world,’ and framed a corporate transaction as built on ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid.’ That is not policy criticism, but mischaracterization of civil rights for Jews and Arabs as racism, and the rescue of Jewish hostages as murder," the Coalition for Jewish Values said in a statement."Nonetheless, more than 170 Jewish entertainment figures rushed to sign a letter dismissing the antisemitism charge as an ‘outrageous smear campaign.’ To be certain, they are entitled to their ignorant and misguided views," the statement continued."They are not, however, entitled ...