Five years back, at the peak of the brutal siege of Aleppo, @MarkRuffalo promoted an article by the notoriously Islamophobic Stephen Kinzer claiming that in Assad and the Russian Air Force's assault, the residents were seeing "glimmers of hope". He still hasn't apologised. https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/701411667930963968

At the time @MarkRuffalo was suggesting that Aleppines were seeing "glimmers of hope" in the regime assault — led by sectarian militias and the Russian Airforce — the regime's airforce was dropping this leaflet on Aleppo.

The article was published by the @BostonGlobe and Ruffalo had been nominated for an Oscar for playing a Pulitzer-winning Globe reporter. Ironically, the article was an attack not just on Aleppines, but also journalists.

Now that there is finally some reckoning for toxic leftwing alliances, I hope you'll join me in asking @MarkRuffalo to apologise to the Syrian people for promoting racist and Islamophobic propaganda in support of an assault that the UN declared a "war crime".

Note that Stephen Kinzer, the racist writer that @MarkRuffalo was promoting, had written this article on the day that the Russian Airforce bombed three Medicins Sans Frontieres hospitals. @WatsonInstitute https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/12/syria-thank-you-russia/UNKMxrzQvvAt8j4sJH03mJ/story.html

For those unfamiliar with Ruffalo's source, here he is responding to a documentary about the White Helmets winning an Oscar. And this racist dictator-worshipper is still employed @WatsonInstitute, @BrownUniversity and still published by @BostonGlobe @GlobeOpinion