Actor Blames Enabling US Policy for US Citizens' Murder by Israeli Soldiers

As soon as they say the right thing, the common sense thing, the straight talk, what everyone knows but is afraid to say…. about Israel's barbarity in Palestine, they are immediately flooded with the Zionist vitriol and leaf-blower noise of "antisemitism".



Mark Ruffalo made comments on social media Friday about the deaths of U.S. citizens Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Aysenur Egan Eygi in Israel during the ongoing Gaza genocide. He immediately incurred the raging diarrhea of conservatives and settler Zionists who accused him of, what else, being an "antisemite". At this rate, 99% of the earth population is an antisemitic.

“Neither Hersh Goldberg-Polin nor Aysenur Egan Eygi would be dead today .. it weren’t .. the USA’s failed policies concerning the continued siege on Gaza, Netanyahu, and the IDF’s intransigence,” Ruffalo tweeted Saturday.

“If Biden had remained steadfast to American Law, his own policies concerning military aid, his ‘Redlines’ and the world outcry, his ability to use American law to leverage a ceasefire, these beautiful young people would be alive today.”

Neither Hersh Goldberg-Polin nor Aysenur Egan Eygi would be dead today it weren’t the USA’s failed policies concerning the continued siege on Gaza, Netanyahu, and the IDF’s intransigence. If Biden had remained steadfast to American Law, his own policies concerning military aid,… https://t.co/jAq32GFaKH — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) September 6, 2024

“[Secretary of State] Blinken’s comments do not meet the significance of this event. He does not address how the USA will keep other Americans safe there no matter what the circumstances may be. Eygi was protesting an illegal settlement. This has gone too far. It’s too much and it has to be addressed in good faith, finally. #TooFarTooMuchGaza.”

Ruffalo’s post also quoted a tweet from Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib in which she said, “Complete and utter failure in keeping Americans safe.”

Eygi, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Turkey, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers with a single bullet to the head in the occupied West Bank while protesting Israel’s presence in the area. Just like Shireen Abu-Akleh, the US journalist for Al-Jazeera who was killed by an Israeli sniper with a single bullet to the head in May 2022 as she covered the Israeli savagery in the refugge camp of Jenin in Palestine.

On Sept. 5, Ruffalo and other prominent entertainers calling themselves Artists4Ceasefire called for an end to “weapons transfers that violate U.S. and international law.” Ruffalo previously called for the U.S. to threaten cutting off weapons to Israel in an August editorial in the L.A. Times.

Ruffalo, an outspoken progressive, has dodged accusations of both antisemitism and Islamophobia before.  During the 2021 Gaza War, also known as the Unity Intifada, Ruffalo accused Israel of committing genocide when Palestinians in East Jerusalem began protesting the anticipated eviction of six families in an area of the occupied West Bank; Israeli police entered Temple Mount the next day, also the final Friday of Ramadan. The conflict lasted until a ceasefire was reached several weeks later.

In July 2024, Ruffalo was accused of perpetuating Islamophobic stereotypes when he described Project 2025 as “the Sharia Law of the ‘Christian’ crazy people who aren’t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ’s egalitarian, inclusive, and kindly teachings.”