Hannah Einbinder Backs Mark Ruffalo in $8.4 Billion Paramount-Warner Fight as Antisemitism Row Deepens
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Updated · Deadline · Aug 25
Hannah Einbinder Backs Mark Ruffalo in $8.4 Billion Paramount-Warner Fight as Antisemitism Row Deepens
3 articles · Updated · Deadline · Aug 25
Summary
Einbinder used an Instagram story Monday to defend Ruffalo after a Paramount spokesperson accused him of antisemitism over posts linking the Ellison family, Oracle and Israel’s military to the proposed Paramount-Warner deal.
Ruffalo rejected the charge in a lengthy X post, calling it “appalling and fundamentally dishonest” and arguing that criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, military technology contracts and executives supplying them is not hostility toward Jewish people.
Oracle executive Safra Catz became central to the dispute after Ruffalo shared video of her describing “profoundly scary technology” provided to the Israeli military, then wrote that Larry Ellison was using the company to fund son David Ellison’s Warner acquisition.
Einbinder broadened the criticism beyond Israel, calling the takeover a dangerous concentration of power by “right-wing technofeudalist oligarchs” and warning that the merger could cost Hollywood crews and other workers thousands of jobs.