Jewish groups call for Hollywood boycott of Mark Ruffalo after antisemitic comments over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a Hollywood-based pro-Israel nonprofit, responded by calling for the entertainment industry to stop platforming Ruffalo until he retracts his remarks and apologizes.
42% : Introducing the Jewish state out of the blue when it's entirely unrelated, making baseless claims about Israel, and then trying to avoid accountability by essentially claiming that 'some of my best friends are Jewish' is gaslighting 101.
41% : Ingel said Ruffalo's argument "increasingly fuses hostility toward Israel and Zionism with Jewish-associated wealth, media ownership, oligarchic power and ominous warnings about concentrated control into a single narrative.
36% : "Invoking Israel in an issue where it is completely irrelevant is a textbook case of obsession and demonization.
36% : "Invoking Israel in an issue where it is completely irrelevant is a textbook case of obsession and demonization.
35% : The Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Creative Community for Peace have joined Paramount in accusing Ruffalo of invoking antisemitic rhetoric after he connected the Ellison family's business interests to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.
34% : The controversy erupted Friday after Ruffalo shared a video of Paramount board member and former Oracle CEO Safra Catz discussing technology Oracle provided to Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.
29% : "Mark Ruffalo's rhetoric has increasingly crossed the line from criticism of Israel into extremist and antisemitic messaging," CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said.
28% : CCFP also pointed to Ruffalo's own previous acknowledgment that rhetoric accusing Israel of genocide could fuel antisemitism.
17% : In May 2021, during fighting between Israel and Hamas, Ruffalo publicly apologized for posts suggesting Israel was committing "genocide.
16% : " "I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing 'genocide'," the actor tweeted.

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