00:00John Cusack is throwing his support behind Mark Ruffalo with a simple three-word tweet,
00:05solidarity well said.
00:07This comes as the Hulk himself is trying to punch his way out of a messy media scandal
00:12and accusations of anti-semitism.
00:15If you're new to this story, we have the full timeline right here.
00:18Mark Ruffalo is no stranger to politics.
00:20The famously outspoken actor has been spotted with the likes of Susan Sarandon at a No Kings
00:25protest in 2025, striking alongside the Writers Guild of America in 2023, and here he is
00:31demonstrating outside Trump Tower in 2017 with Michael Moore and fellow Marvel actor Marissa
00:37Tomei.
00:37She plays Peter Parker's Aunt May.
00:39But Ruffalo's latest political action has landed him in hot water in Hollywood.
00:43Over the weekend, he reposted a years-old video of Oracle CEO Seferah Katz boasting about technology
00:50used to assist the Israeli military.
00:52There's a few things that we did that I really can't talk about to advance the agenda for
00:58the Israeli military, but we have some really profoundly scary technology at Oracle, and
01:06we wanted to make sure that it was available for the effort.
01:13Notably, Oracle's CEO is Larry Ellison, one of Donald Trump's mega-donors.
01:17And his son is Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, whose merger last year was approved
01:23by the Trump administration.
01:24David's next grab?
01:26A $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, and it's currently delayed.
01:32Along with the Oracle video, Ruffalo wrote, this is the company that Larry Ellison is using
01:37to fund his son David's Warner Bros. acquisition.
01:39He called Larry a classic oligarch, labeled the war in Gaza a genocide, and accused Oracle
01:45of powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.
01:50Paramount clapped back at Ruffalo in a lengthy statement that accused him of invoking anti-Semitic
01:55tropes and called his rhetoric a bridge too far, adding,
01:59This brings us to a moment to lower the temperature, not raise it.
02:03Ruffalo then took to X to defend himself, slamming the accusations of anti-Semitism as appalling
02:08and dishonest.
02:09He added,
02:29That's the post John Cusack retweeted in support of his fellow actor. But where do you stand
02:34on this hot button issue? Let us know in the comments. And for more on how Ruffalo continues
02:38to ruffle feathers in the industry, head over to Page Six, Hollywood.
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