Creative Community for Peace called Mark Ruffalo\u2019s attack on Larry and David Ellison antisemitic on Saturday and urged Hollywood not to platform the actor until he retracts his remarks and apologizes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHollywood should not accept this kind of rhetoric from anyone,\u201d CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said in a statement provided to the Jewish Journal. \u201cMark Ruffalo should retract these remarks and apologize, and nobody in Hollywood should platform him until he does.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dispute began after Ruffalo attacked the Ellison family and Paramount Skydance\u2019s proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The actor shared a video of Israeli-American Oracle Executive Vice Chair Safra Catz discussing assistance Oracle provided to Israel after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
Catz said Oracle possessed \u201creally profoundly scary technology\u201d that the company wanted to make available to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n
Ruffalo seized on that phrase, warning that the technology could eventually become part of one of the world\u2019s largest media companies and \u201cone day\u201d be \u201cused on you.\u201d He accused Catz of reveling in what he described as a genocide \u201cbuilt on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruffalo also called Oracle founder Larry Ellison a \u201cclassic oligarch\u201d and accused powerful people of \u201cconsolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paramount condemned the remarks<\/a>, saying the use of antisemitic tropes in a business dispute was \u201ca bridge too far.\u201d A company spokesperson said Paramount does not tolerate prejudice \u201cagainst anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n Ingel argued that Ruffalo\u2019s message crossed the boundary separating legitimate criticism of a corporate transaction from rhetoric historically used to portray Jews as dangerous and secretly powerful.<\/p>\n \u201cTaken together, his statements echo some of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories in history,\u201d Ingel said, \u201cdepicting Jews as a wealthy and sinister elite who accumulate control over media, money and power, then use that control against society.\u201d<\/p>\n CCFP, an entertainment-industry organization whose open letters and campaigns have attracted thousands of signatures from artists, agents and studio executives, said the latest controversy was part of a longer pattern.<\/p>\n Ingel pointed to Ruffalo\u2019s 2021 accusation that Israel was committing genocide. Ruffalo subsequently apologized for that language<\/a>, calling it inaccurate, inflammatory and \u201cbeing used to justify antisemitism here & abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor nearly a decade, Ruffalo has supported BDS and campaigns to isolate and demonize Israel,\u201d Ingel said. \u201cInstead of becoming more careful with his words, he has repeatedly doubled down on his extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2025, Ruffalo joined thousands of entertainment figures who signed a Film Workers for Palestine pledge<\/a> promising not to work with Israeli film institutions the organizers considered complicit in \u201cgenocide and apartheid.\u201d The campaign said it targeted institutions rather than individual Israelis. Paramount opposed the pledge, arguing that boycotting Israeli filmmakers would impede dialogue rather than promote peace.<\/p>\n CCFP also accused Ruffalo of amplifying sensational or unsupported casualty claims to his millions of social-media followers.<\/p>\n One claim warned that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 48 hours. That figure was initially stated by United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher. The underlying food-security assessment<\/a>, however, projected more than 14,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition among children ages six months to five years over approximately a year\u2014not 14,000 deaths within two days.<\/p>\n