Hannah Einbinder Defends Mark Ruffalo After Paramount Calls His Merger Attack ‘Antisemitic’: ‘Those of Us With a Platform Need to Use Our Voices’

Hannah Einbinder has defended Mark Ruffalo after Paramount accused him of invoking "antisemitic tropes" when criticizing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. Ruffalo had shared a clip of Paramount board member Safra Catz outlining "really profoundly scary technologies" provided to the Israeli military by Oracle, where Catz is executive vice chair.

Einbinder, a Jewish actress and star of "Hacks", expressed gratitude towards Ruffalo for drawing a connection between the Ellison family's provision of military technology to Israel and their proposed media takeover. She described the idea that Ruffalo's comments were antisemitic as "ludicrous". According to Einbinder, criticizing the Ellison family's actions does not equate to antisemitism, and that such accusations can "rob the word of all its meaning".

Einbinder also questioned whether it would be antisemitic to point out that Safra Catz, an Oracle executive, sits on Paramount's board, or that Larry Ellison has made significant donations to Trump's political efforts. She framed Ruffalo's comments as criticism of "right wing technofeudalist oligarchs" involved in the largest media acquisition in history.

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