Hannah Einbinder rejects claim Mark Ruffalo targeted Ellisons as Jewish
Hannah EinbinderActor and comedian
Einbinder rejected the allegation that Ruffalo targeted the Ellisons because they were Jewish.
Responding to
Ruffalo criticized identified executives, a military technology relationship, and a corporate transaction rather than Jewish people as a group.
“The idea that he only said these things because the Ellisons are Jewish is LUDICROUS”
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Did Mark Ruffalo’s Paramount–Warner criticism invoke antisemitic tropes?
Mark Ruffalo connected Oracle’s assistance to the Israeli military and Larry Ellison’s financing of Paramount’s proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition to concerns about Gaza, surveillance, media concentration, and oligarchic power. Paramount and several Jewish organizations said his framing echoed conspiracies about Jewish wealth and media control. Ruffalo and his defenders argued that he criticized identified executives, military contracts, and a documented corporate transaction—not Jews as a group.
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Reporting reproducing Hannah Einbinder's defense of Ruffalo.
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In an Instagram Story on Monday night, August 24, she supported his criticism.
After the quotation
She defended drawing connections between corporate military technology and media ownership. Variety reported the statement August 26.
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She expressly thanks Ruffalo for making the connections and urges artists to follow his example. The response goes beyond rejecting a label.
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Correction to: Statement by Hannah Einbinder
- Previous classification
- Challenges the characterization. She directly challenged the motive attributed to his remarks.
- Corrected classification
- Defends or excuses. She expressly thanks Ruffalo for making the connections and urges artists to follow his example. The response goes beyond rejecting a label.
We corrected the editorial classification of Hannah Einbinder's response about Ruffalo’s substantive corporate/Israel connections. She expressly thanks Ruffalo for making the connections and urges artists to follow his example. The response goes beyond rejecting a label. This corrects our labeling, not a later change in the speaker's position.
This corrects an editorial classification.
Reporting reproducing Hannah Einbinder's defense of Ruffalo.
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