Mark Ruffalo needs to spend more time as a nonverbal, big green Hulk with no time in actual speaking roles. When the Hollywood actor opens his mouth these days, his script is full of lines that were written for him by bitter, hate-fueled Hollywood miscreants. His bile-filled screeds against Jewish leaders in Hollywood and the tech industry have been expanded to link conspiracy theories as old as time to the reason he’s not getting hired these days.

Let’s look at a few examples. The Jewish owner of Paramount, David Ellison, has a father, Larry Ellison, who founded a tech company (from which he retired as CEO), Oracle, that has business operations in Israel. And because of Oracle’s “scary technologies,” Ruffalo warns, we might be unsafe in America. Hence, the Paramount-Warner Bros merger should be canceled. If you’re scratching your head and wondering where this nonsense comes from, the answer is that the Hulk’s mind is a crazy and addled place.

The linkages in Ruffalo’s spaghetti brain are as incomprehensible as the lines he grunts in his signature role as Marvel’s Incredible Hulk. Ruffalo couches his rants in what is currently the de rigueur language of progressivism, which is to say that the merger wouldn’t be fair. He pulls out big words like antitrust and consolidation to entice state attorneys general to join him, but ultimately he whines that the merger would negatively impact jobs. Most notably, no doubt, his prospects for future employment.

At the root of Ruffalo’s screed against tech giants who happen to be Jewish is his fundamental hatred of Jews. His deep-seated and inexplicable hatred of Jews and Israel is inflammatory and demonstrates fully why certain actors should only be allowed to speak the words that screenwriters give to them. Mark Ruffalo tied Oracle technology to Israel to his claim of genocide in Gaza to the Paramount-Warner Bros merger. Paramount rightly called out Ruffalo’s untethered and unfounded remarks as antisemitic, as he sees paranoid connections where none exist and genocide/apartheid where no rational actor sees them.

When actors like Ruffalo are allowed to make their own speech or wardrobe decisions, they do dumb and cruel things. Take the Red Hand pin, which somehow was supposed to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The lapel pin that Ruffalo sported at the Oscars did nothing to bring about a ceasefire, but inflamed sentiment against Jews and Israel. The pin in question was designed to show support for terrorists who kidnapped and lynched two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000. The terrorists held up their bloody hands after tearing the Israeli men apart and tossing their bodies from a window, after which the defiled bodies were drawn through the streets of Ramallah and burned. For Mark Ruffalo, this animalistic terror act was no more than a special effect in a movie. He’s not bright enough to distinguish reality from a comic book.

Hollywood can do so much better than Mark Ruffalo and his ilk. He is lionized by Jew-hating fellow actors who, like him, are washed up. We need more great leaders to fill the silver screen’s biggest roles. Ruffalo was never convincing as brilliant scientist Dr. Bruce Banner because he clearly isn’t capable of playing a smart guy. He also wasn’t convincing as a strong, non-verbal Hulk because he is an emotionally weak person. Studio executives have done a much better job in filling other roles in the Marvel Universe. It’s time to audition newer, better, smarter actors for the Bruce Banner/Hulk role. Scarlett Johansson, Gal Gadot, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Corenswet, Quentin Tarantino, and other fantastic actors and directors are multi-dimensional and create compelling characters in action movies. These are Hollywood’s superheroes who entertain and enlarge stage and screen.

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Bonnie Glick is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an avid Marvel and D.C. comics fan.

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