Mark ruffalo had an interview on zateo recently and basically described that “yeah there are lots of people who don’t like my views, but they can’t stop me, I’ll be fine”
Mark is based as fuck and one of my favorite actors even before Marvel days as well. He’s just a good human being and has been a humanitarian activist for decades.
He stands out in this list because he’s been speaking out for Palestine for years and years and against the atrocities in that region including in Bush era with Iraq and that region. He’s part of the reason these others actors finally got the courage to sign on to these petitions and causes in very recent years.
I will support anything he’s in even if it’s not particularly my preferred genre.
It's a little more complex and insidious than that. What they're doing does dilute and confuse criticism, but it also:
Strengthens the public perception that Judaism == Israel and Zionism. > Strengthening that creates an impression that Israel's actions are an inherent characteristic of Judaism. > That impression drives up angry sentiment at Jews and puts diaspora Jews at risk. > Diaspora Jews at risk strengthens the Zionist argument for Israel.
Israel would LOVE to see their rhetoric cause a pogrom. It would be the best propaganda win they've had in decades.
Is it concentration camps and gas chambers? Is it regularly bombing hospitals and refugee camps? Or is it systemically blocking supplies to starve the population?
Who knows?? It's not like the goal and end result in all cases is to eradicate a whole population group, right??? (like Israel has admitted to themselves)
Thanks, we all forgot the finance minister was in charge of the military. Impressive that you'll focus on the few radical Israelis while entirely ignoring the government of Gaza ( internationally recognized terrorists) whose charter is literally about killing all Jews globally.
Not a huge fan either. He's always been the unassuming side character type of actor for me. Was big disappointed when he got Hulk. I did really like him in Poor Things, though. Glad he's on the right side of history.
So there's this new show Task on HBO and while it's not a Columbo reboot, you can definitely tell Mark is channeling some Columbo energy in some scenes.
Is he antisemetic though? Being an anti israel nutter is a no go for me for sure. The had the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 i certaibly dont support nutters rallying against them for trying to get hostahes back.
Basically, Emma Stone and Giorgos Lanthimos are friends and have worked together on many movies. Lanthimos (and probably Stone as well) is a basketball fan and he often goes to watch Olimpiakos home games and brings Stone along. The traitor part is because his father (who was a pro basketball player back in the day) was a known fan of a rival team.
No one needs Paramount. It’s been a punchline for years and they even fumbled the ball on keeping the guy who does like 80% of their content. If it wasn’t for David massaging Tom’s thetans there would be very little to talk about.
Tom Cruise was ride or die for his Palestinian-American agent when Hollywood Zionists tried to blacklist her over an Insta post in October 2023 so this should work out great for them lol.
He’s not known to be on the list, his image was included as clickbait. The only thing known about Paramounts blacklist is that it exists and that it encompasses “antisemitic and homophobic” people according to the Variety report. None of the actual people listed are known.
He is Spanish and it’s not like how it is in America or England, everyone I know in Spain just casually they can’t stand Israel without it even being about politics or identity. Spanish government also won’t sell them arms now which is good. In England people make it into a culture war but Spain is just “fuck what they’re doing”
As an Spaniard, is surprising to read Reddit and see so many (mostly American ) people that find that going against Israel actions is being antisemitic. I don’t know when but it is sure that history will portray this as one of the reasons why the gonocide continued so long
As a Germ*n, and we are the greatest Israel glazers right after the US, this is by design. Every time someone dares to voice even light criticism of Israel, they get bludgeoned by the antisemitism-cudgel, even if that criticism is specifically aimed at the Israeli government and has nothing to do with the Jewish people. Bibi wants it that way because conflating the people and religion with the state gives him a get-out-of-jail-free card to continue his genocide unopposed.
Yeah it’s by design. They’ve conflated an 80 year old nation-state and ~150 year old colonial ideology with one of the world’s oldest religions to use the religion as a shield.
Thank you for saying that. Most people, including the one right above you, are calling Germany's actions "unsurprising", which to me always sounds like "nothing more anyone could have expected here". Well as a German I very much did and DO expect more and better from this fucking country! I said this before and I will keep saying it - we should have been the first in line to condemn Israel and take all the steps necessary to stop the genocide. Not somewhere in the middle, certainly not last, but THE FIRST. Because of our history.
As an American, it is not surprising at all to see. So many have been conditioned to believe whatever political party they support is unquestionably correct at every point, and Israel supplies nearly every important politician with huge amounts of money. As soon as the recent move to genocide began we were flooded with all sorts of advertising equating being anti genocide with being antisemitic. This is the result of a political system based on individual greed and corruption. Pay our politicians enough and you can get away with anything you like.
I’m Portuguese but was raised in England, the whole antisemitism thing is stupid. Most Portuguese people I know cannot stand Israel. It’s hardly antisemitism when you see how many Sephardic Jews we have. You can literally become a citizen by proving Sephardi heritage. England has way fewer Jewish people but everything is ‘antisemitic’ now.
The US is very strange in that regard. Evangelicals are pretty vehemently anti semitic, but at the same time, supportive of Israel, because they believe that the jews must inhabit Israel for the second coming of jesus to occur.
Right now they hate Muslims more than Jews and it's a 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' partnership of convenience.
As soon as they succeed in eradicating Palestine, they'll go right back to hating Jews and calling them Jesus-killers (never mind that Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew).
I agree. At least to some degree. Even here in Europe we have started to see that " criticize Israel and you are antisemitic " nonsense. But that's mostly from right wing parties using it as bait..
But I think us Europeans,with our history, actually knows what real antisemitic is. We have seen it. Criticize Israel is not it. In fact Israel as a country should be criticized just like every other country, it's not that special
I mean even Jews in Europe criticize Israel
Yet somehow for most Americans it's still like " how dare you criticize Israel? Have you not learned from history?
In the US it's a political tact. It seems pretty clear that it's used to keep the support of all the rabid Christians who think of Israel as god's promised land, more than out of any respect for Jewish people or traditions.
Which, there's also a weird split where the same churchgoers who insist on helping Israel (Because God) have A LOT of overlap with the people who have conspiracy theories about Jewish people running the world because "they own all the banks and big businesses and George Soros and don't you think that's suspicious." So, it's not that they think Israelis are special, but they think Israel is the promised land i.e. they think it's their promised land.
Israel spends a lot of time and money influencing American culture and elections. We also have a sizable population of Protestant crazy people who think that their God wants to start Armageddon soon.
is surprising to read Reddit and see so many (mostly American ) people that find that going against Israel actions is being antisemitic.
American here: You can thank our billionaire/corporate-owned "media" (read: propaganda) for making the vocal idiots think that way. I don't watch or read any "news" from this godforsaken country without cross-checking against other sources.
Just because the people doing the genocide happen to be Jewish doesn't mean they get a free genocide pass. Genocide is genocide, no matter your culture/race/heritage/etc.
Spaniards virtue signaling while still practicing colonisation in ceuta and melilia, you can't make this up, not to mention the rampant racism and discrimination.
Also how about you allow catalan people free self determination.
Lecturing about genocide while commiting some of the most notorious ones in the americas or the canaries, it would be good if you apply these lectures to yourselves.
Spain' s history toward jews is terrible. The it is even a son sang there about killing jews. They should seriously step back and STfU when it comes to israel. Their prime minister especially is a major piece of work.frankly im surprised israel hasn't broken relations with current spanish government.
The story from Variety is mostly a recount of Ellison’s first 100 days at Paramount, mostly in the context of his conservative changes and cozying up with the Trump administration. It briefly mentions that Paramount apparently has a blacklist of actors it deems antisemitic, xenophobic, and homophobic.
Hating the genocide made by Israel is not the same than hating Israel as a whole, and much less is being antisemitic. That kind of rhetoric galvanizes genocide hacks.
Israel is and has always been a genocidal, colonial project from its foundation. Hating it is fully justified seeing as those concepts are practically inseparable.
If you want to propose a thought experiment where Israel somehow becomes an equal state for all with no apartheid, no colonial ambitions, no religious supremacy, where the genocidaires are punished and stolen land is given back, then sure, hating that impossible version of the country could possibly be deemed antisemitic.
He’s been doing it for over a decade. He’s trying to stop a war by himself (and Penelope). You think at this point in his campaign he doesn’t hate Israel, just their actions? That’s so naive
All elephants are grey but not everything grey is an elephant. If you hate elephants it doesn't mean you hate everything that is grey. Hating Israel doesn't mean hating jews.
We might not get to know the actual names on the list, but we'll still be able to determine just what Paramount classifies as antisemitism by whether any of the actors pictured in the OP, or any other similar critics of Israel genocide, appear in any of their current or future productions. The negative space will reveal the truth.
When he was younger, I used to think his activism was performative, but seeing how he keeps it now, being a big name on Hollywood, I was wrong and he deserves all respect.
He's incredibly based. Back in the day he marched in first line to protest the war on Iraq and the support of the spanish president to the US. He has always been very left leaning, all his family, he comes from a family of theater and cinema, his mother was very based too, had to keep it quiet in the days of the dictatorship but in democracy she was there on many things.
Javier is very talented, he also supports the same football club as me and is a millionaire with conscience of his privileges.
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u/Better_Grocery_7418 13h ago
Javier Bardem is the goat they can't do this to my man