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\nParamount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of \u201cpowering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tA spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is \u201ctroubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like \u2018genocide\u2019 and \u2018apartheid,\u2019 applied to a corporate transaction, aren\u2019t just wrong \u2014 they\u2019re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn\u2019t deserve a response in kind \u2014 and to be clear, we don\u2019t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRuffalo took to Instagram with a years-old clip of Paramount board member Safra Catz discussing \u201creally profoundly scary technologies\u201d that Oracle used to assist the Israeli military following the Oct. 7 terror attacks. That 2023 event saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals and abduct 251 people. Ruffalo referred to Larry Ellison as a \u201cclassic Oligarch,\u201d and warned of the danger of his son\u2019s bid to combine Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery. Referencing the Catz clip, Ruffalo encouraged his followers to \u201clook how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tRuffalo was one of the earliest Hollywood figures to decry the proposed Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount merger. Numerous industry sources have expressed concern over Ruffalo\u2019s conflating the merger with anti-Israel sentiments. <\/p>\n

\n\tParamount said Ruffalo\u2019s post \u201cbrings us to a moment to lower the temperature, not raise it. We\u2019d rather build than further engage in such rhetoric. This simply exposes the true motivation of some who have advocated opposition to this transaction. On the other hand, our commitment to great content is matched by our commitment to acceptance \u2013 to every story, every storyteller, and no blacklists, no exceptions, for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTheWrap first reported Paramount\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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