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Vol.1, Issue 47, September 2022 ELITE

Secondly, a few weeks ago Marvel announced that If an entertainment company with such huge number
Israeli superhero Sabra will appear in the next of viewers, launches a new Israeli superhero feeding
Captain America movie. The comic Sabra was the idea that Israelis are brave superheroes to
introduced in the 80s, showing a superhero who is children and youth all around the world, it will
often depicted wearing an Israeli flag costume and definitely impact international support towards
has a deeply racist, anti-Muslim origin story that Palestine and Palestinians. Israelis aren’t superhorse,
dehumanize Palestinians. Sabra superpowers were they shouldn’t be glorified in any way. Israelis are
created in order to serve the Mossed. By day, oppressors and they should only be shown as such.
Sabra is also a police officer with Israeli military
training. In her first act as a superhero, Sabra The question here isn’t about Google or Marvel, it’s
battles the Hulk who picks up the body of a about the reasons behind our support to BDS as a
Palestinian child who was killed. It’s not until the movement and a concept. Why are we, as simple
Hulk gives an emotional speech that Sabra sees the individuals, willing to go to such lengths, and
child as a human. The comic refers to Palestinians making our lives harder by boycotting certain
only as Arabs, a trope used by Israel to erase products and brands? There is two answers to this
Palestinian identity and existence. It also relies on question. The first is that you as an individual have
racist caricatures of Muslims throughout the story. witnessed the Israeli oppression firsthand and
Instead of righting its wrongs, Marvel is choosing therefore find it outrageous to support this colonial
to revive a racist character that dehumanizes power in any way. Which means that you are a
Palestinians while Palestinians are still suffering Palestinian whether living in Palestine or a refugee
under Israeli oppression daily. Also, we have to in any other country, both face daily difficulties
highlight that the superhero is named after the caused by Israel in the first place. The second, and
Sabra refugee camp in Lebanon, the same refugee the more common, is that you participate in this act
camp where Israel massacred Palestinians in 1982 by compassion and support for the cause just like
after they closed all exits to make sure no how you would participate in protests, share posts
Palestinian could escape. While this seems trivial about Israeli crimes or try to raise awareness about
next to google technologies, the entertainment’s the cause. Indeed, boycotting requires an extra
company fanbase constitutes 64% of adults aging amount of compassion and strength especially if the
18-34 years old in the whole world, and 54% product you have to boycott is one you frequently
adults in the world have watched all their movies use. The second case is more ambiguous.
and series. This numbers date back to 2018, which Compassion can’t be measured, we can perform
means before the streaming of Avengers: psychological test or experiments to tell if a person
Endgame, the rest of the Spiderman trilogy and the is compassionate or not, but we can’t tell to what
launch of phase 4 which have all received really extent is this person compassionate. Even the test
favorable ratings and opinions and marvel have results can change over time, you can become more
been the topic of many trends lately. Not to or less compassionate with accumulated
experiences.
mention, that they also have younger viewers aging
Back 8-18 years old.
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