Micha Danzig, also known professionally as Mitch Danzig, is an attorney at Mintz whose practice includes employment, commercial and trade-secret litigation. He writes commentary on Israel, antisemitism and Jewish history and serves on the board of Herut North America. He advises employers on workplace investigations and compliance and has been a guest instructor in San Diego State University's human-resources certificate program. Before practicing law, he served in the Israeli military and worked as a New York City police officer.
Role at the time: Attorney and commentator writing a signed personal opinion column
Condemned
Statement summary
Micha Danzig endorses the antisemitic-trope criticism of Ruffalo's merger-related remarks and argues that the supporting open letter evades objections to how Ruffalo connected corporate, military and media power.
“Paramount identified the trope correctly.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Micha Danzig's September 10 criticism of Ruffalo and the supporting letterDiscussion of Ruffalo's August 21 post, the paragraph endorsing Paramount's response, and the subsequent discussion of the supporting letter.
Why we used this label
Danzig expressly agrees with Paramount's criticism and rejects the supporting letter's defense of Ruffalo's framing.
Mark Ruffalo linked Oracle’s assistance to the Israeli military and Larry Ellison’s Paramount–Warner bid to Gaza, surveillance, media concentration, and oligarchic power. Paramount and Jewish groups cited antisemitic tropes; Ruffalo’s defenders said he targeted executives and corporate conduct, not Jews.
