we-stan-bruce-ban reblogged
ATTENTION MARVEL FANS!!!
BDS has added a specific MARVEL BOYCOTT because the next Captain America film features “Sabra/Ruth Bat-Seraph”—a character that personified apartheid israel.
This character is known to:
- work for mossad
- continually talk about her hatred towards palestinians and arabs in the comics
- have attacked the hulk for helping a palestinian child (hulk briefly convinced her that palestinians are humans)
- have a syrian character (batal) as her antagonist
- bear the name of a horrific massacre (the sabra massacre—where pregnant women were murdered and their babies were cut out of their wombs) *i am aware sabra refers to a fruit but let’s be real: it is still connected to a massacre carried out by israeli armed forces on innocent civilians.
Marvel is complicit in anti-Palestinian racism, israeli propaganda, and the glorification settler-colonial violence. Having this character in a movie by of the biggest franchises in the world, especially now while there is a genocide going on, is appalling and disgusting. There is no new approach one can take when the character has always been grounded in racism and propaganda.
