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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/02/hollywoods-paranoid-hatred-of-israel/
Hollywood's Paranoid Hatred of Israel
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - 180 showbiz folk of Jewish heritage signed a missive this week in defense of Mark Ruffalo, Hollywood's shrillest hater of Israel, who's been facing accusations of antisemitism. It is the clearest proof yet that the anti-Israel crusade has curdled into a vicious bigotry with eerie echoes of ancient hatreds. It all started when Ruffalo let rip against the $111 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Like all Gazaholics - people so inebriated by Israelophobia it clouds their every waking thought - he couldn't resist dragging Israel into his tirade. Paramount Skydance is run by David Ellison, he said. And David Ellison's father is Larry Ellison, the chief technology officer of tech company Oracle. And Oracle has provided software to the Israel Defense Forces. So the same money-grubbing oligarchs who have "powered" Israel's "genocidal" mania will soon be the masters of "one of the largest media conglomerates in the world." And one day this vast and blood-fueled empire will be "used on you." Paramount issued a rare statement in response to Ruffalo, saying it was "troubled" by the invoking of what seem to be "antisemitic tropes." Applying words like "genocide" and "apartheid" to a "corporate transaction" isn't just wrong, said Paramount - it's a "bridge too far," with its sinister depiction of normal media business as a genocide-enabling enterprise puppeteered by dark forces. I'm sick of tiptoeing around this. You don't need a PhD in either medieval hysteria or 1930s Europe to clock how dangerous it is - not to mention disgusting - to depict the Jewish nation as having its boot on the neck of the world. And to view that tiny state as the source of global tyranny. Insisting on a dark, twisted link between some Jewish entity and the suffering of humankind is the original antisemitism. In her defense of Ruffalo, actress Ellen Barkin tweeted, "Antisemitism is a hatred of Jews. Anti-Zionism is a hatred of Israel." There it is. We don't hate Jews, just the country that's full of them. We see you.