{
  "id": 2680631,
  "title": "Mark Ruffalo Rejects Paramount’s Claim His Anti-Merger Comments Were “Antisemitic”: “My Views Should Never Be Interpreted as Hostility Toward Jewish People”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/mark-ruffalo-rejects-paramounts-claim-his-anti-merger-comments-were",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-23T00:10:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hollywood Reporter",
    "slug": "the-hollywood-reporter",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mark-ruffalo-paramount-anti-merger-comments-not-antisemitic-1236679153/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mark Ruffalo has responded to Paramount's claim that his comments opposing the studio's $111 billion deal for Warner Bros. were antisemitic. Ruffalo had criticized the Ellison family, specifically David and Larry Ellison, and their ties to Oracle, which has connections to the Israeli military.\n\nRuffalo denied the antisemitic accusations, stating that his views \"should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people.\" He expressed that being called antisemitic was \"appalling and fundamentally dishonest.\"\n\nParamount had accused Ruffalo of using antisemitic tropes after he attacked the Ellison family and Israel in a rant against the planned merger with Warner Brothers, according to Arutz Sheva - Israel National News.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Arutz Sheva - Israel National News",
        "title": "Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of using antisemitic tropes",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/paramount-accuses-mark-ruffalo-of-using-antisemitic-tropes",
        "published": "2026-08-22T18:56:17.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}