The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
This is the route that ICE agents took yesterday while their prisoner with a broken neck was bleeding profusely. The red dots are hospitals with ERs.
They were hoping he would just die.
Mark Ruffalo's latest attack on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger slammed the Ellison family's ties to Israel and their role in “what we now have come to see as a genocide” in Gaza.
Ruffalo shared a video of Oracle’s executive vice chair Safra Catz boasting about the company’s efforts to "advance the agenda for the Israeli military" by making "really profoundly scary technology" available to them.
"This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition," Ruffalo wrote in a fiery post. "These 'really profoundly scary technologies; will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you... From one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world. Why has Trump pushed this illegal merger through? Larry Ellison will own most of 'Para Bros.' Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance..."
https://t.co/QbUQCCmiHz
“Ms. Wahab, 39, was the first Muslim and Afghan American elected to the California State Senate. When a moderator asked her during a forum whether she considered ‘what is happening to the Palestinian people a genocide,’ Ms. Wahab answered ‘yes.’” https://t.co/CyqpnwJz2r
Israel didn’t just “fire on a car”, the Red Cross told them 5-year-old Hind was in that car. IDF gave permission to an ambulance to enter the area, then ambushed & bombed that ambulance, shot 355 bullets at Hind’s car, prevented anyone from reaching her body for 12 days & lied about it for 2 years saying “we never even had troops in that area” despite satellite images & audio recordings proving they were lying!
The Uncommitted Movement - although it declined to endorse Kamala Harris because of her pro-genocide stance, came out strongly against Trump or Repbublicans too.
But pro-Israel Democrats in Michigan are literally endorsing Mike Rodgers. Their racism and anti-Muslim hatred has always been the most important thing to them when it comes to voting.
Not abortion.
Not healthcare.
Not housing.
No, they will throw that all away just to continue a genocide.
The UNCUT FINAL MINUTES of the Knicks’ 29-point Game 4 comeback to take a 3-1 lead in the Finals 🍿
We can’t celebrate the best of last season without bringing this back!
Luigi Mangione pled guilty to killing one person—Brian Thompson, 624 days ago.
Here's a question that corporate media will never ask: how many Americans died preventable deaths in those same 624 days because insurance prioritized profit over their lives?
I did the math.
https://t.co/Y20dYuwIas
Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.
It turns out the man who disrupted services at a a synagogue in NYC on Friday was mentally ill, a Zionist fanatic, desperate to convert to Judaism, a rabid anti-Palestinian bigot, and an extreme critic of Mayor Mamdani. Will the parade of Zionist organizations & figures and AIPAC-owned politicians who tried to exploit this crime to advance their own bigoted, pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Mamdani agendas now apologize and correct their public proclamations? Don’t hold your breath.
https://t.co/7kDYMmmbOK