A radical of Jewish artists, writers, originative professionals, religion leaders and thinkers—including Emma Seligman, Gabor Maté, Hannah Einbinder, Ilana Glazer, James Schamus, Larry Charles, Joel Coen, Miranda July, Molly Crabapple, Sarah Sherman, Tavi Gevinson, Todd Haynes, and Tony Kushner—have signed an unfastened letter “in effect to the outrageous smear run against our respected workfellow Mark Ruffalo.”
Ruffalo, a longtime advocator for Palestinian rights who has been vocal successful his condemnation of Israel’s behaviour successful Gaza and the West Bank, was accused by media elephantine Paramount Skydance of invoking “antisemitic tropes” successful his disapproval of its $111bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).
In a connection shared connected his societal media channels past month, the histrion had highlighted the links betwixt Paramount Skydance, tally by CEO David Ellison, and Oracle, the exertion institution tally by Ellison’s father, Larry. Oracle has supplied bundle to the Israel Defense Forces for decades and Ellison Sr. is the largest donor successful past to the nonprofit Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
As good arsenic condemning the “false and unsafe weaponization of charges of antisemitism against those who are brave capable to constituent retired the obvious,” the unfastened missive goes connected to item the extent of transportation betwixt the Ellisons and the Gaza genocide, and item a caller Washington Post canvass which recovered that 61% of American Jews present hold that Israel is committing warfare crimes successful Gaza.
Below is the letter, and database of signatories, successful its entirety.
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“Enough!”
We are Jewish artists, writers, originative professionals, religion leaders and thinkers who have, successful effect to the outrageous smear run against our respected workfellow Mark Ruffalo, a elemental connection to stock with the world: Enough! Enough with the mendacious and unsafe weaponization of charges of antisemitism against those who are brave capable to constituent retired the obvious: that the battle connected the Palestinian radical and the battle connected our liberties astatine location are profoundly interconnected, and determination is thing antisemitic astir recognizing that fact.
The projected merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery is nary specified operation of 2 immense multinational companies. Yes, it volition destruct thousands upon thousands of livelihoods. Yes, it volition further consolidate the oligarchic power of our media (witness the gutting of CBS News). Yes, it volition strangle contention and creativity successful movie and tv accumulation and distribution.
But it volition bash each this and much arsenic portion of a larger task of tech-driven domination, a task Larry Ellison and his partners person ne'er been shy astir trumpeting—and 1 they themselves person explicitly linked to their enactment for the ongoing depredations being visited connected the radical of Palestine and their silencing of critics of those horrors. We each saw this aft their Trump-brokered takeover of TikTok—a takeover they openly proclaimed was successful ample portion motivated by their tendency to boost pro-Israel propaganda. Larry Ellison personally, with his astonishing $350 cardinal successful backing and pledges to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, has been Blair’s large backer arsenic Blair assumes an influential relation successful the Trump-concocted “Board of Peace” takeover of Gaza, a territory which has go an open-air laboratory for AI-driven sidesplitting and power technologies similar the ones celebrated by erstwhile Oracle CEO (and existent Oracle and Paramount committee member) Safra Catz.
The AI roadworthy to WarnerMount runs done Gaza, and Ellison has often fto america cognize the Orwellian satellite helium has successful store for america arsenic helium consolidates power implicit what we ticker and however we ticker it, knowing that arsenic we ticker helium and his corrupt cohort volition ever beryllium watching us: “Citizens volition beryllium connected their champion behaviour due to the fact that we’re perpetually signaling and reporting.”
Pointing retired the important connections betwixt what is happening successful Gaza and what is happening successful Hollywood is the nonstop other of antisemitism. It is, for us, the precise essence of Jewish ethical duty. According to a caller Washington Post poll, 61% of American Jews present hold that Israel is committing warfare crimes successful Gaza; and 4 successful 10 adjacent hold that these crimes magnitude to genocide. Do those attacking Mark Ruffalo arsenic an antisemite earnestly judge that each these American Jews are antisemites too? Or that we don’t spot the transportation between, connected the 1 hand, the transgression impunities that person led the US and Israel into unending catastrophe and, connected the other, the oligarchic powerplays of the Musks, Ellisons, Thiels and others who are moving to dismantle our democracy?
But the virulence and falseness of the slanders they nonstop towards their critics is grounds of the expanding weakness of their position, based arsenic it is connected innuendos. Today, much and much radical of conscience are joining together, to loudly and univocally proclaim: The clip is implicit for spurious charges of antisemitism to beryllium trotted retired successful the defence of war, oligarchy, and, now, AI domination. That bushed playbook has tally its course.
We basal proudly with Mark Ruffalo, and with each decent radical who are bravely rising and speaking information to power.
Notes:
To spot Safra Catz astatine an Israeli-American Council acme sermon Oracle’s “scary” concealed weapons successful Gaza: “I don’t privation to brag, but…” Oracle executives are crystal wide successful their Israel stance: “Supporting Israel is successful our DNA — adjacent if it costs america clients. That’s our agenda.” Catz has been precise insistent that she volition not tolerate employees astatine the companies she helps tally who bash not stock her views: “For employees, it’s clear: if you’re not for America oregon Israel, don’t enactment here.”
For details connected Oracle’s partnerships with the Israeli subject and police: Oracle. Here’s Ellison connected his extremity of “constantly signaling and reporting.”
On Ellison and Blair’s concern spot Blair and the Billionaire. Watch Blair and Ellison chat astir AI planetary domination: “An astonishing accidental to reimagine the state…” On Blair and his relation successful Gaza, spot Blair Takes connected Larger Role.
On TikTok and Israel, spot Benjamin Netanyahu proclaiming the takeover arsenic “the astir important acquisition happening” during the war: “Weapons alteration implicit time…”
On the progressively unsafe weaponization of antisemitism arsenic a instrumentality to destruct escaped code and different rights, and however Jews are warring backmost against this weaponization, sojourn the Diaspora Alliance.
For caller polling connected American Jews’ progressively captious views of Israel, spot The Washington Post’s “Most Jews accidental Israel is committing warfare crimes – and 39 percent accidental genocide…”
Signatories
Aaron Costa Ganis, Actor
Abbi Jacobson, Actor/Comedian
Alan Snitow, Filmmaker
Alex Winter, Actor/Filmmaker
Alison Klayman, Filmmaker
Alison Leiby, Writer/Comedian
Alissa Weiss, Rabbi
Allie Gross, Writer
Amos Goldberg, Holocaust Historian, Hebrew University
Amy Ziering, Filmmaker
Anat Matar, Snr. Lecturer (Ret.), Tel Aviv University
Andrea Weiss, Filmmaker
Andrue Kahn, Rabbi
Anjuli Kronheim Katz, Advocate
Anna Pollack, Director
Anthony Arnove, Writer/Producer
Ariel Friedlander, Artist
Ariel Wengroff, Artist
Atalia Omer, Professor, University of Notre Dame
Avi Shlaim, Professor (Em.), St Antony’s College
Ayelet Waldman, Author
Barry Trachtenberg, Professor, Wake Forest University
Bella Freud, Designer
Ben Korman, Producer
Ben Lorber, Researcher
Ben Moser, Author
Ben Natan, Actor/Producer
Brian A. Kates, Editor
Bruce Cohen, Producer
Camille Lévy Sarfati, Author/Curator
Cat Davis, Rabbi
Chani Nicholas, Astrologer
Charlie Goldensohn, Strategist/Commentator
Charlotte Sheedy, Literary Agent
Collier Meyerson, Writer
Craig Aaron, Journalist
Dana Kornberg, Assoc. Professor, UC Santa Barabra
Daniel Levy, Political Analyst
David Borenstein, Filmmaker
David Mivasair, Rabbi
David Vine, Author
David Wilson, Filmmaker
Deborah Eisenberg, Writer
Deborah Kaufman. Filmmaker
Deborah Shaffer, Filmmaker
Debra Winger, Actor
Deidre Fishel, Filmmaker
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Physician
Einat Weizman, Filmmaker
Emily Kunstler, Filmmaker
Emma Seligman, Filmmaker
Erin Axelman, Filmmaker
Estee Chandler, Radio Host/Producer
Estelle Tarica, Professor, UC Berkeley
Ethan Sacks, Writer
Frances Fisher, Actor
Gabor Maté, Physician/Author
Gili Getz, Photographer
Gina Gershon, Actor
Ginny Suss, Producer
Hana Morgenstern, Assoc. Professor, Newnham College
Hannah Einbinder, Actor
Henry Bean, Screenwriter
Howard Rodman, Screenwriter
Hunter Abrams, Photographer
Idith Korman, Musician/Composer
Ilana Glazer, Actor/Writer/Director
Ilise Cohen, Scholar
Itamar Ziegler, Composer/Musician
James Renton, Professor, Edge Hill University
James Schamus, Filmmaker
James Wilson, Producer
Jamie Zelermeyer, Producer
Jane Schoenbrun, Filmmaker
Jason Kliot, Filmmaker
Jason Rosenberg, Public Health Advocate
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Producer
Jenna Weiss-Berman, Producer
Jennifer L. Pozner, Author
Jeremiah Zagar, Director
Jeremy Yaches, Producer
Jesse Mechanic, Writer
Jill Goldman, Artist
Jillian Neal, Manager
Jo Firestone, Comedian/Actor
Joel Beinin, Professor (Em.), Stanford University
Joel Coen, Filmmaker
Jon Reiss, Filmmaker
Jonathan Feingold, Professor, Boston University School of Law
Jonathan Lethem, Writer
Josette Maskin, Musician
Karin Loevy, Professor, NYU School of Law
Kate Berlant, Actor
Kathy Wazana, Filmmaker
Lance Kramer, Producer
Larry Charles, Screenwriter/Director
Laura Kraftowitz, Writer
Leora Barish, Screenwriter
Libby Lenkinski, Producer
Linda Holtzman, Rabbi
Lindsay Beyerstein, Journalist
Lior Sternfeld, Assoc. Professor, Penn State University
Lisa Cholodenko, Filmmaker
Lonnie Kleinman, Rabbi
Liz Flahive, Screenwriter
Mara Hoffman, Artist
Marc Weiss, Filmmaker
Marianne Hirsch, Professor, Columbia University
Maris Kreizman, Writer
Mark LeVine, Professor, UC Irvine
Mati Shemoelof, Author/Poet
Matt Bernstein, Content Creator
Max Zev Reynolds, Rabbi
Meryl Crean, Rabbi
Michael Greif, Director
Michael J. Drexler, Assoc. Professor, Bucknell University
Michael Skolnik, Organizer
Michael Rothberg, Professor, UCLA
Miranda July, Filmmaker/Writer
Mneesha Gellman, Professor, Emerson College
Molly Crabapple, Author/Artist
Mordechai Liebling, Rabbi
Morgan Bassichis, Writer/Performer
Morgan Spector, Actor
Naomi Klein, Author/Professor
Nathan Thrall, Author
Nicole Morse, Educator
Nina Menkes, Filmmaker
Noa Avishag Schnall, Journalist
Orian Zakai, Assoc. Professor, George Washington University
Orli Matlow, Comedian
Peter Beinart, Journalist
Phyllis Bennis, Writer
Rachel Leah Jones, Filmmaker
Raphael Greenberg, Professor (Em.), Tel Aviv University
Raz Segal, Assoc. Professor, Stockton University
Rebecca Vilkomerson, Author/Analyst
Rick Pearlstein, Author
Rinat Abastado, Rabbinic Student
Roee Rosen, Artist
Romy Soleimani, Make-up Artist
Rosanna Arquette, Actor/Director
Sai Koros, Student Rabbi
Sandi DuBowski, Filmmaker
Sarah Kunstler, Filmmaker
Sarah Schulman, Writer
Sarah Sherman, Comedian/Actor
Sarah Sophie Flicker, Artist
Shira Klein, Assoc. Professor, Chapman University
Sigal Primor, Artist
Simone Zimmerman, Podcast Host
Spencer Ackerman, Author
Steve Quester, Anti-Racism Coach
Steven Katz, Screenwriter
Susan Margolin, Filmmaker
Susan S. Lanser, Professor (Em.), Brandeis University
Tamir Sorek, Professor, Penn State University
Tavi Gevinson, Actor/Writer
Ted Hope, Filmmaker
Terri Ginsberg, Asst. Teaching Professor, Rutgers University
Tia Lessen, Filmmaker
Todd Haynes, Filmmaker
Tony Gerber, Filmmaker
Tony Kushner, Screenwriter/Playwright
Udi Aloni, Filmmaker
Udi Raz, Writer
V (formerly Eve Ensler), Playwright/Author
Vanessa Hope, Filmmaker
Vanessa Nunes, Physician
Wallace Shawn, Actor/Playwright
Wendy Ettinger, Filmmaker
Yael Bridge, Filmmaker
Yael Ronen, Director
Yoni Golijov, Filmmaker
Zach Woods, Filmmaker
Zachary Foster, Historian
Zachary Lochman, Professor, NYU
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