Marvel erases Israeli identity of superhero 'Sabra'

Marvel strips Israeli identity of superhero 'Sabra,' who is played by Israeli actress Shira Haas, over the controversy surrounding the current conflict with Hamas
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[@cluelesssss]

Isn't it ironic that superhero movies are being made by such a spineless studio?

[@zartanicus]

if it was a hero from ww2 Germany would you say the same?

[@eddyecho]

@@zartanicus try again. erwin rommel is highly regarded in israeli culture. marvel is clearly pandering to the mob

[@johncane4507]

Who cares about her background? She is a minor character plus comics change backgrounds all the time

[@ickystarsick9403]

@@zartanicus they've made movies of WW2 heros before. They were the ones that turned against the nazis, and helped prisoners.

[@zartanicus]

@@ickystarsick9403 i literally meant if it was a Hero from the German side. Would ppl be upset if a studio glorified that?

[@JonathanMoosey]

So we can have a Jewish villain in Magneto but not a Jewish superhero in Sabra? Seems just wrong to me.

[@dragon_fruit3665]

The movie is not even out yet, so yes

[@ugcamige]

Magneto isn't a villain. He's an anti hero

[@nigelowlsmith1882]

Wanda is a Romani Jewish woman who became a superhero but Even she was stripped of this in the movies….

[@teddybear8348]

No he is anti villain @@ugcamige

[@chrischreative2245]

@@ugcamige No, he’s a villian.

[@rhythmoriented]

The irony is that making this change is more likely to lead to a boycott by even more people.

[@checo8187]

No lol 😂

[@rhythmoriented]

@@checo8187 please come back here when the film flops.

[@checo8187]

@rhythmoriented And you think pro israLIe will make the movie a hit? Lmao.. get real.

[@Malva-qc8ji]

@@checo8187 Right. become realistic. Israel still exists, there was and will be a civilization there, and that’s why everyone lives there, Muslims-Arabs, Druze and Bedouins, etc., and in your countries, even you yourself don’t want to live, so by hook or by crook you’re crawling into Europe and USA and other normal countries.

[@Malva-qc8ji]

@@checo8187 There are a lot of people in the world who support Israel, so you should be a realist.

[@hotaq0attnet]

I stopped watching marvel when they confused the original identities of the heroes

[@budgiecat9039]

Disney Marvel's She-Hulk show brought in the villain group The Wrecking Crew and raceswapped almost all of them to minorities, however took the one original minority character of the group and its smartest one as he was a gamma physicist, Elliot Franklin aka Thunderball, who was one of the first wave of original black characters in Marvel comics in the early 70's after the creation of Black Panther in 1966, to a scrawny white guy with a $5 ski mask and one line. Kinda ridiculous.

[@dj1NM3]

So why did Marvel even bother using the name, if they're not really even using the character?

[@JustahumanBeing-pk7xt]

Criticism from the middle East strikes again

[@dj1NM3]

@@JustahumanBeing-pk7xt Can't win by attacking Israel to destroy them in warfare, try attacking cultrally and using dodgy lawfare (as in the ICJ ruling, which efecively says Israel isn't allowed to defend herself. Judge is Lebanese, probably a Hezbollah approved representative)

[@gillvardi8328]

Gutless Hollywood!! Shameful!!

[@marwanmarwanmezo]

Marvel jewish or USA

[@eaglesfan226]

@@marwanmarwanmezo What are you trying to do, prove Netanyahu’s point?

[@TheOrangeOverlord]

The only one that could do with being gutless is you fatboy.

[@marijuasher]

Marvel has headquarters in NY. Which means they don't even work in Hollywood. Shameful of the company, not the city, or the industry. Just the company, okay?

[@budgiecat9039]

​@@marijuasher Marvel has been owned by Disney since 2009. They absolutely went Hollywood since then

[@TheCaniblcat]

I wonder what Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema, creators of Sabra, think of this travesty. Surely Stan Lee is turning over in his grave. As he was Jewish, maybe Disney should just scrap the whole Marvel franchise?

[@bobeslami9770]

stan lee was also pro palestinian

[@Femmeaesthetic]

@@bobeslami9770then why did he create this character?

[@TheCaniblcat]

@@bobeslami9770 Lee was pro peace. He was also pro corporations not butchering their creator's works, which is why he and Ditko started Marvel in the first place.

[@jamesjameson4303]

@@bobeslami9770bovine excrement. No he wasn’t.

[@edithslama1702]

​@@bobeslami9770bs troll claiming cultural heroes! And the Bible was whispered to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel. You guys are the champions of cultural appropriation.

[@Femmeaesthetic]

The reason why they cancelled it is because pro Palestinians as usual were gonna boycott this company, marvel company already knew the controversy surrounding Israel/Palestine conflict. By the way this Israeli super hero is not the only character where they rip of her Jewish identity, they did the same with scarlet witch who was Romani Jewish but made her a “gypsy” in MCU.

[@kiritogame4232]

dude that israel super hero is fucking zionist & didn't care of lives of innocent Palestinian unless she saw a palestinaina child dead. plus her name is taken from tragedy event "Sabra and Shatila massacre" that isreal took part

[@leahp1765]

That means she is part of the problem. Remember lord of the flies? Piggy is a jew and caused the problems he lied to Ralph that Jack hated him. When he didn't

[@migueldelgadillo944]

There are plenty of reasons to boycott Marvel, and those Pro Palestinian people are on the right side of humanity, not the Zionazis and their Far right supporters, so F Settler colonial Nazrael Israelis are just as Native to The Middle-East as White Anglos are to America as in their delusional dreams.

[@patriciarobinson6081]

It is an insult, especially at a time when antisemitism is on the rise

[@Femmeaesthetic]

Pro Palestinians would've been boycotting this project

[@chrischreative2245]

@@Femmeaesthetic They don’t have money to go to movies or read so wouldn’t matter anyway

[@budgiecat9039]

​@@chrischreative2245ot doesnt really matter. Disney has been acting anti profit for some years now 🤣 And they are absolutely afraid of cancel culture

[@kiritogame4232]

@@chrischreative2245 when such company supporting the genocide of Palestinians, god you are dumb

[@athaillahwahidramadhan1461]

how's antisemitism when a marvel are trying to avoid controversial and politic?

[@daneyal7162]

As a jew who lives in Israel, I have a number of things to say about this: First of all, it's PATHETIC from marvel to think that they can buy my adoration by having a character with my ethnicity in their comics. I don't care about characters' ethnicity, as long as they are well written. Second, marvel have shown that they are cowards and alt left complicits by them erasing Sabra's Israeli identity. This trend of "not wanting to offend anyone politically" became aggravating YEARS AGO.

[@seanvandiijk2889]

wow, but aren't marvel producers and the like from jewish ancestry they themselves? In that case it seems another situation of leftist jews against regular jews

[@chrischreative2245]

@@daneyal7162 The character of Sabra is over 50 years old. She’s not new. Only new to people that don’t read comics. The comics industry was created largely by Jews both with DC and marvel. Superman being best known. Yes they are cowards in backpeddling to try and place Twitter crowd.

[@budgiecat9039]

​@@chrischreative2245no she's 44 years old. She debuted fully in 1981 as the reporter said. Sabra is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Sal Buscema, the character first appeared in Incredible Hulk #250 (August 1980) in a cameo, before making a full appearance in Incredible Hulk #256 (February 1981). Sabra is the alter ego of the Israeli superheroine Ruth Bat-Seraph (Hebrew: רות בת-שרף). She is a mutant, and serves as an agent to the Israeli secret service known as the Mossad. Belinda Glass, a singer and the first wife of Marvel writer Mark Gruenwald, came up with the name and concept of the character. "Sabra" is a slang term for a native-born Israeli Jew. The name refers to the prickly pear cactus: tough on the outside but soft and sweet on the inside Ruth Bat-Seraph was born near Jerusalem. She was raised on a special kibbutz run by the Israeli government after her power manifested. Ruth was the first superhuman agent to serve with the Mossad (the Israeli secret service). She became a police officer in addition to serving as a government agent. Her first public act as Sabra was a battle with the Hulk, whom she mistakenly believed was working with terrorists. Bruce Banner has befriended an Israeli child who was poor and has to resort to thievery but was killed in a terrorist attack and that enraged the Hulk to the point of even making him cry as he held it child's lifeless body in his hands and didn't understand the pointless religious war in that country so he fled leaving Sabra solemn and contemplating her actions. Some years later, Sabra's young son was killed in a terrorist attack. She disobeyed orders in order to bring her son's killers to justice.

[@chrismaguire3667]

Am Yisrael Chai. Besides the Muslim World tried to have published their own superhero universe called "The 99". I haven't heard anything about it since...

[@crisgetcrucified6972]

Correction. *As a Zionist living in a Palestinian's house*

[@TalonBrush]

So the actress can be Israeli but not the character? And what they're saying is "Israelis have no place in our world"? And to think they could have just not done the character at all.

[@teddybear8348]

The character is going to be israeli

[@budgiecat9039]

​@@teddybear8348 She's former Black Widow now. There were reshoots. At the very least they might say she was abducted from Israel for the Black Widow program but who knows. We do know she is no longer a Moussad agent for Israel

[@user-kf3rm3gd5j]

Not in one where heroes protect the weak. Doesn't really fit with the behavior in Gaza where a country celebrated killing 200+ people mostly women and children to save 4 of their own.

[@TalonBrush]

@@user-kf3rm3gd5j Iranian mouthpieces are getting weaker and more ironic by the day. Accusing a country of celebrating the deaths of "200+" (suuure, I believe Hamas numbers - I also have a bridge in Brooklyn for you, real cheap, wanna buy it?) members of a *NAZI DEATH CULT* when the same death cult members were celebrating a massacre like, five minutes before that. Got anything stronger or... You're just gonna go "Hail Hydra" on me next?

[@mustafaalizzi879]

​@@user-kf3rm3gd5j they celebrate killing thousands and thousands of native people since they created their aprtheid and colonizing state in Pestine They proved how anti human they are

[@bambooseragardenista8329]

Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) is a Jewish character, but in the X-Men movie franchise they very carefully "goy-ized" he, stripping her of any ethnicity.

[@nikkster01]

seriously how petty

[@ZT-vr4wz]

She is a terrorist. We don't need her.

[@Omkuskom]

it starts with dehumanizing...

[@TheOrangeOverlord]

And you've dehumanised palestine for 75 years. Shut your pie hole.

[@mustafaalizzi879]

Like what isnotreals do since long time to muslims and arabs

[@TimewornCookie6]

@@Omkuskom your victim mentality dehumanizes yourself

[@Omkuskom]

@@TimewornCookie6 huh?

[@beachbumvet8973]

DISGUSTING

[@azrael2000]

👍👍

[@jarvisholland7837]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@AliyaDabkes2465]

Cancel marvel

[@ClickbaitMotorsports]

And this is why I don't watch any new movies or TV series. Hollywood has always been a propaganda machine, but as of the late 2010s the political/social weaponization of movies and TV series is blatantly egregious.

[@Femmeaesthetic]

Scarlet witch was Romani Jewish but mcu stripped away her identity, making her gypsy

[@KANGZZZ.]

Don't u guys own hollywood

[@ClickbaitMotorsports]

@@KANGZZZ. Who's "you guys"? And roll up your sleeves, and type it with confidence. C'mon. 🍿🥤

[@checo8187]

@ClickbaitMotorsports The Jaws(e) who love visiting that famous Island..

[@ClickbaitMotorsports]

@@checo8187 Interesting how pro-HAMAS members and supporters love to visit Israeli YT channels. You won't see me browsing Narnia News YT channels. I'm sorry Phillistine News YT channels. What...what's the name of that fictional state? Oh yea, Palestinian News YT channels.

[@kennethgambill4751]

I'm pretty sure Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would have had a fit over changing the Identity of Sabra, but this is, now, Disney we're talking about (who owns the rights to Marvel), and Disney is fond of retconning characters to pander to a specific audience. So this would be Disney erasing any link to Israel. In all probablity the movie will flop anyway, and Disney will find away to blame auidences.. yet agian. Personally, I think someone is intentionally sabotaging the Disney IP because it's an American Icon, but that's a discussion for another day.

[@kennysmith1336]

Is it me or I'm the only person that never even heard of this character

[@MalcolmXChannel]

It's not just you. Never heard of her either 😅

[@practice4523]

Nobody knows her

[@itamar7559]

i know her. i think she once beat the hulk, but i'm not sure.

[@alexjohnson9630]

@@MalcolmXChannel , I have. I am aware of all Jewish superheroes in marvel and dc.

[@alexjohnson9630]

@@practice4523 . You speak for your self. I am aware of her. I am aware of all Jewish superheroes in marvel and dc.

[@zartanicus]

why dont they call her Genocide Lady?

[@emberashes6809]

How about we call you terroist joe

[@ickystarsick9403]

She's not islamic though...

[@zartanicus]

@@ickystarsick9403 I'm not either but I've noticed the Muslim's behavior has been humble and consistent with what you'd expect from ppl that actually love god and humanity.

[@ickystarsick9403]

@@zartanicus 😂 I guess you haven't noticed much then...

[@zartanicus]

@@ickystarsick9403 but i have noticed that Israel supporters make fun of other religions, while Muslims never speak about any religion other than there own.

[@analyticalmindset]

Israel invaded sovereign territory as well some could argue

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

They didn't but ok

[@analyticalmindset]

@@user-sb7so5zg1j they did

[@HeroTeo]

It's anti Semitic

[@user-rd6ux4bl7i]

and you think we actually care guess what we dont care

[@JonathanMoosey]

@@user-rd6ux4bl7i obviously you care enough to comment, bigoted subhuman filth

[@arturferrao7353]

She's israelite. How it is anti-semitic?

[@HeroTeo]

@@user-rd6ux4bl7i that's why i said it's anti semitic

[@HeroTeo]

@@arturferrao7353 because she's presented as Russian.

[@87fg]

I have a new name for this character: Captain Genocide .

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

No, not right since israel doesn't commit any genocide

[@emptyscreen6945]

​@@user-sb7so5zg1jare you sure ?

[@emberashes6809]

I have a name for you The blind moron

[@Sohan_15]

​@@user-sb7so5zg1jah yes of course Israel didn't commit the genocide but the IDF did

[@wintersoldier164]

​@@Sohan_15 so what hamas did? They did genocide.

[@do-user-6502]

I stopped watching marvel long back when they included the Muslims

[@noufalali7142]

Zionist 😂

[@TheCaniblcat]

I wouldn't have minded that if the shows were actually good, but they sucked.

[@marwanmarwanmezo]

​@@TheCaniblcat What is strange is that Israel occupies lands like Russia

[@chrismaguire3667]

@marwanmarwanmezo, what is more strange is that Israel has *never* ' occupied' land - the first land they got in the Holy Land was around where Tel Aviv is; rocky, marshy, full of mosquitoes, unfarmable by the Arabs who "owned it' and from whom the Jewish people who went there *legally bought the land,* before the UN resolution in 1947, for the extortionate price the Arab farmers demanded! Any other land they got was as a result of them *defeating* the invading Arab/Muslim armies that attacked them right after the May 1948 declaration of the Statehood of Israel, and four times after that - the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank (Samaria and Judea), Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, and of whic they returned in the disasterous 'land for peace' initiatives the US brokered over the years. The Israelis won't concede the Golans, because it would invite their genocide, but they have lost over 50% of their territory, gained as a spoil of war according to UN tenets that allow an invaded country to keep any gains, landwise, if they repel the invaders and win. Not like Russia who *are* the invaders, right now. Just like in Stalin's time! But you, like so many, are wilfully ignorant of the truth, and do not want to know it - you'd rather swallow the lies and 'victimhood' of the Palestinians - did you know that was a *SOVIET RUSSIAN idea* given to Yasser Arafat by his Yugoslav KGB handlers? That was because Russia was refused by Israel their 'help' to establish the State by David Ben Gurion, especially as they were recognised by Harry Truman and the US, even though Ben Gurion was a lifelong Socialist, which he dropped when he became the first Israeli Prime Minister. The Soviets wanted a warm-water naval base on the Med, so they didn't get their Navy bottled up in the Black Sea if the Bosphorus Straits were closed up by a nuke strike in the 1950s Cold War. Now they have one thanks to the Muslims, who they cosied up to, making treaties of arms deals and nuke materiel with Syria, Lebanon and Iran! And Iran thinks that, because Russia has it's back, it can threaten Israel, Europe and the West because Russia uses *it as their proxy!* In a nutshell - *now you know,* so stop swallowing the blue pills washed down with the kool-aid!

[@Femmeaesthetic]

@@marwanmarwanmezo nice conspiracy

[@chrismaguire3667]

It wouldn't be Marvel, it would be the parent company, Disney, who would do this. Disney himself was an Anti-Semite, you know. Kevin Feige should never have sold out to Disney but, as they say, money talks. The MCU isn't the same since 'Avengers: Endgame'. Phase 5 is already Disney woke, and this proves it.

[@budgiecat9039]

It wasnt Kevin Feige it was Ike Perlmutter who sold Marvel to Disney and stayed on as board leader until 2019, who he himself moved from Israel to the US when he was young. Also Kevin Feige hated Ike Perlmutter. At one point he almost quit until Bob Iger of Disney convinced him not to and reassigned him to answer to Alan Horn instead of Perlmutter. Perlmutter, unlike Feige and Victoria Alonso, was not a pusher of DEI, as he was more concerned with guaranteed profits. This infuriated Feige. Also, Kevin Feige didn't come up wth the idea of a shared universe. Ike Perlmutter and Margaret Loesch (head of Fox Family and former CEO of Marvel Productions) did way back in the 90's with the Fox Marvel animated universe.

[@chrismaguire3667]

@@budgiecat9039 Thank you. I stand corrected. I was too hard on Feige, though didn't he and Jon Favreau have an, um, intense difference of opinion as to the direction of the MCU? Still, maybe I owe Kevin Feige a public apology, though it's unlikely to be read by him. However, Marvel going to Woke Disney was a bad move, and has compromised the franchise. I am not that hopeful about Phase 5, and there are already huge cracks over the next Avengers film, title and content. I was already a bit uncomfortable with the scene of Steve Rogers in the support group in 'Endgame', but it was still a real stonker of a film which I enjoyed, and both 'Black Panther' and 'Black Widow', as origin-based stories. However, watching 'Wakanda Forever' was a bit cringy. Disney might stump up monies for future films and shows, but they need to keep their DEI/CRT/LBGTQ++ noses out of what is meant to be action-adventure superheroism. If we want real-life issues in our films, we would watch things with Cher and Bette Midler in it. And I don't wish to. And I hope Sony keeps hold of Spider Man, and keeps the Mouse far away. (I don't really want my cash going on gender-bender propagandism, and if this offends anyones feelings, well, that's too bad. Get over it.)

[@budgiecat9039]

@@chrismaguire3667 Never heard of that about Favreau and Feige.

[@zeero.0o]

Why tf marvel would do that? Let's cancel marvel! Let's not watch Deadpool!

[@justincartledge111]

Because they only made superhero movies for themselves

[@xaksprayx]

Smartest move the studio made

[@TOURS732]

So they can sell movies in saudi n other muslims countries, no brainer folks, marvel just wants money

[@ChristopherLaw-qv4ou]

As much as I stand in solidarity for the plight of the Palestinians as a Muslim myself I believe this is downright foolish and ridiculous to erase a character over political affairs

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

Well then blame the pro palestinian people. They shouted that marvel supports "genocide", "apartheid" and other imaginary things as soon as they said that sabra will join the mcu

[@sarahsaqr7865]

​@@user-sb7so5zg1j There's nothing more ridiculous than naming her after a massacre no need i think that's enough to reject it

[@brycecombs2868]

Yet, there is a hijabi in the Marvels.🤦

[@Femmeaesthetic]

she's south asian though

[@dragon_fruit3665]

It was way before wars happened

[@budgiecat9039]

​​@@Femmeaestheticwho is? If we are talking about Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel's best friend that wore a hijabi throughout the Ms Marvel show, then no. She, like Kamala, are both Pakistani Americans living in Jersey City NJ, and Pakistan is not "South Asia" as it is up north from India

[@Femmeaesthetic]

@@budgiecat9039 Pakistani are litrally south asian, they come from india

[@the-dark-side.]

ummm Black Widows are all from different countries. THE Black Widow is Russian. The bar for outrage bait is so low in 2024 lol

[@TheCaniblcat]

In the MCU they established the Black Widows was a Russian assassin/spy program that trained female agents from early childhood.

[@dj1NM3]

@@TheCaniblcat I always thought that the MCU missed a trick, when they didn't make the Black Widows super-soldiers, sort-of Soviet/Russian versions of Steve Rogers. At least that would have explained why Natasha Romanoff didn't get turned into a greasy smear, while fighting super-powered enemies with the Avengers.

[@TheCaniblcat]

@@dj1NM3 I was never big into Captain America or the Black Widow (Spider-Man, X-Men and Silver Surfer were my obsessions of choice) in the comics, but I don't think she was super-powered, jus very well trained, so the MCU jives with that much at least.

[@chadmeidl1140]

I bought this comic book when I was a 7-year-old kid: Marvel INCREDIBLE HULK #256 (1980) Sabra had a great costume!

[@ZT-vr4wz]

Good! We don't need a terrorist character.

[@emberashes6809]

Says the one who supports a terrorist state and organisation and is part of a movement that literally terrorises jews just for being Jewish Stfu you hypocrite

[@wintersoldier164]

So you believe they need to remove her identity because of opinions. Sounds racist to me

[@emberashes6809]

@@ZT-vr4wz says the asshole supporting an arab terrorist organisation Hypocrite

[@ZT-vr4wz]

@@wintersoldier164 Poor Hasbara.

[@AlecO-xh8rt]

Marvel is overrated

[@marwanmarwanmezo]

Marvel jewish or USA

[@Femmeaesthetic]

@@marwanmarwanmezo There is no Marvel jewish, they even stripped away Scarlet Witch's identity who was Romani Jewish. And Marvel was obviously created by USA comic book writer

[@HeroTeo]

Money is better than ideals for marvel. What a shame. At any rate I don't like CGI movies anyway because my brain can't feel well during it.

[@fanOmry]

Here's how I would be willing to watch it. her backstory has to be something like Natasha's. Only Israel has made her the trainer of a highly skilled, secret mossad unit *Sabres-* A mixsex unit that is trained to take on Widdows and anything of that level.

[@TheZionistPowerscaler]

Shame on you Marvel

[@growthzack9542]

Good. Thanks for showing us who you are, marvel. Just like Jack Black. I won’t watch or support… and I love superhero movies!

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

Not that I'd watch the movie anyway. I rarely watch any movies. But, going from an Israeli to a Russian?!? Oh well, what's that movie saying? _"Stupid is, as stupid does."_ Guess they don't know that; _"Two wrongs don't make a right."_

[@user-kf3rm3gd5j]

You should consider yourself lucky. Otherwise they would have to somehow write into the story that although from Israel, she doesn't support killing women and children of "lesser" people. And then you would have a problem with that criticism of your government.

[@callamastia]

gosh i wonder why

[@hellishwerewolf7798]

If Kanye waited a year to be antisemitic I don't think he would have been canceled.

[@azrael2000]

I'm really glad that I stopped caring about this ri-diculous company for a long time

[@Cletus_the_Elder]

More idiotic moves from Marvel-Disney.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

It's funny that when black people in the past have complained about their origins being removed from movies, we were all told, IT'S JUST A CHARACTER! IT'S NOT REAL LIFE! STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE!!!! DON'T BE A SNOWFLAKE! It's always amazing to see how people react when THEY'RE the ones being erased. Hey guys, it's just a comic book! What's the problem?? Stop being a snowflake!!!!

[@tawakoni56]

Marvel acts like the ss and i will always stand against marvel and any media that plays them or reads them or goes to any event. You fools dont you see what the real cost is of your hate. SHAME TO YOU.

[@johndonohue3962]

As a Disney shareholder, DVC member and Marvel fan I am ashamed of Disney/Marvel and condemn their antisemitism and rebranding of Sabra.

[@NerdsBane007]

It's less offensive to be Russian than to be Israeli. You are damn right.

[@anthonyjat1964]

You could still have an ethnically Jewish super hero that represents Jewish culture and mythology. Just have it where there's no references to the modern Israel Palestine conflict. Make her look like a Macabee or ancient Israelite warrior rather than having anything to do with the modern conflict

[@rodneymarsden3003]

So stupid, so wrong. They have no guts. Why not an Israeli superhero? Oh right! Too controversial. I hate what they did to the Red Guardian.

[@marijuasher]

It's antisemitism.

[@Plexer101]

Everything is antisemitic for you guys.... it's her being an Israeli mossad agent that's the problem, not her being Jewish....Wanda, moonknight, and magneto are Jewish and we love them all the same. Open your damn eyes man.

[@benyaakov6453]

Stan Lee,A"H & Jack Kirby,A"H would be upset!!!

[@lesweizman388]

neither had anything to do with the creation of the character

[@chrismaguire3667]

@lazweizman338, they would be upset at how Marvel has left the vision they had of the Company. And you, with a Jewish name 🙁 - I hope you aren't supporting the very people who despise you *- the Democrat National (Socialist) Party!* Shalom.

[@gheller2261]

Pretty much every creator of comic book characters at both DC and Marvel was Jewish. Disproportionate success, but of course name a profession where that's not the case.

[@josephorlando7108]

Many of Marvels characters that this movie franchise was based on were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby who where both Jewish. Which only makes this more prevalent of how the company is smearing both of these men's work in the later phases for their own personal gains and ambitions. Only using the current issues as the company's latest string of excuses to do so.

[@budgiecat9039]

There have been online boycotts for this movie due to even having Sabra in it; mostly from pro Palestine people, so its understandable that Disney Marvel made massive reshoots and changes things around to try to salvage this movie but it also does come off as cowardly. Also, while there are indeed many Russian Jews, the concerp of Sabra being a Black Widow is humorous since the term Sabra itself is a slang term for "Israeli born Jew". Sabra or tzabar (Hebrew: צַבָּר, plural: tzabarim) is a modern Hebrew term that defines any Jew born in Israel. The term came into widespread use in the 1930s to refer to a Jew who had been born in Israel, including the British Mandate of Palestine and Ottoman Syria; cf. New Yishuv & Old Yishuv, though it may have appeared earlier. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Israelis have used the word to refer to a Jew born anywhere in the Land of Israel. So thats now completely thrown out if shes Russian. Anyways this movie has been in desperation mode for some time since the last two Marvel movies didnt do well and its doubtful now eith its inflated budget due to massive reshoots that it will even profit. That'd be like saying a Navaho (aka native American) for some guy born in Russia lol.

[@TimewornCookie6]

Israel erases the identity of Palestinians and you're crying over a fictional character that still has a major role in a movie? You're messed up

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

? Ironically israel is the safest place for arabs (including palestinians) in the middle east

[@leahp1765]

​@@user-sb7so5zg1j actually if it's not Christian its not rigjt

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

@@leahp1765 i am an israeli, most of my friends are muslims and they along with every muslim and arab here have the same rights as jews. You don't live here so don't try to spread lies that i can see are fake

[@zartanicus]

​@@user-sb7so5zg1j The phenomenon was uncovered when social workers noticed the birth rate among Ethiopian immigrants halving in a decade. An Israeli documentary investigating the scandal was aired in December and prompted a popular outcry. It revealed that women were started on a course of contraceptive jabs while still in transit camps in Ethiopia, some without being told they were being given birth control and many having no idea of the side-effects. When they eventually arrived in Israel, doctors continued the treatment unquestioningly.

[@leahp1765]

@@user-sb7so5zg1j no if it's not Christian it's not right. I said nothing else. Stop putting words in my mouth. Again I stand by if it's not Christian it's not right. You want to know why? Because Muslims came from Christianity they are a off shot bunch who decided that breaking the 10 commandments that includes that shall not commit adultry and fornication i.e rape and thous shall not murder i.e suicide bombers and Beheading of nonbelievers should not be kept. Okay? Thus mulisms are supposed to be Christians not Muslims. Got it? Learn history. Also read the book of Galatians and you would understand a Muslim person mindset because they use to have such things happen in the beginning of Christianity.

[@_Omri]

Absolutely disgusting raceswapping

[@manuag3886]

Perhaps we should not have genocidial "heros" in a kids movie

[@ickystarsick9403]

If you support hamas you have no place making suggestions... Also try learning what words mean before using them.

[@jarvisholland7837]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@herotomillions4095]

Welcome to the parahhood

[@JohnnyRelentless]

It sounds like she's going to be an enemy or defector of Russia, so not at all the same as portraying an Israeli patriot.

[@americathegreat1811]

Marvel is not welcome in my home because of this. Cowards.

[@pacershark452]

Its all disney. They've become VERY anti-semitic in the last decade, this is just the latest example.

[@leahp1765]

Yeah if she is Christian then can stay if not no..remember we are not to lie 10 commandments .thus Christians are not to lie.

[@pacershark452]

@leahp1765 Yes. All true.

[@TobyAkogare]

The more you try to erase us and our connection to our homeland, the more collided prideful and joyous we become. That's what being a true Sabra is and that's why each and every Israeli is a superhero. We don't need your sorry narratives, we have one of the richest history and tradition in civilization.

[@SičhanġuWičhaša]

!לְהִתְרָאוֹת מַרבֵל >>>-----> Goodbye Marvel! 😊 Just stopped watching your franchise, but honestly was losing interest anyways!

[@EarthMightiest]

im making a manga of 'what if Homelander was a zionist'. stay tune.

[@cameronhermann9400]

This is outrageous. If you don’t want to upset people then maybe MAKE UP YOUR OWN UNIQUE CHARACTER. Don’t change a characters key traits like identity or spiritual/ethnic background because POLITICS 🤦‍♂️

[@thereistheonlyone]

Stan Lee would step out from his grave to see these fool executives are making. Why so afraid of backlash? The character has been there long before those crowds. 😂 That's why I love DC more. Israel may only has one superhero in Seraph - the member of the Global Guardians But those Jews legends are plentiful in the form of creators that has shaped & inspired America 🇺🇸for decades. One of them is Paul Levitz who wrote many stories for the Legion of Super Heroes - my favourite team. And I say this as Indonesian. Comic books from DC & Marvel have to go back to their fundamentals - to be their own - to have the people who want to read them. For those who complaints, those who force equality excessively, those who hate white or Jews -- they can make their own comics book. 😂 (They won't because they can't) That's reality.

[@albertosuave1448]

This is the problem with remaking established characters......Disney has been changing characters races,genders, backgrounds and partner preferences since they bought out marvel. Everyone has had enough with the dei crap, it shows at the box office.

[@Muslim_Student]

1. This whole thing is just controversy for marvel to get more attention to their new movie. Dont fall for such petty things , were you about to watch this or even heard of it before they decided to play with fire? 2. Don't glorifying mossad is isn't heroic to be part of terrorism. 3. Why not for once celebrate a jewish hero, a jew, a person who belives in the torah, someone who truly represents jews. 4. By falsely equating mossad and israel as jewish you create more anti semtism

[@laurialmany4880]

Unacceptable !

[@greygremlin1248]

Killing off T'challa now this. Stan Lee WHO WAS JEWISH would be ashamed

[@pst.gladysonoyom7731]

YAHWEH SABAOTH, have your way in all of these, and make a Name for Yourself as The LORD of Hosts.

[@iltrovatore8187]

The dhimmis caving in to Islam...

[@muhammaDEsmustafa]

More like the goyem starting to notice things.

[@Rexorazor]

lol 😆 wait, there is an Israeli superhero in Marvel? 😂 What the hell were they thinking? 😂😂😂

[@polarfamily6222]

Do people even need more reasons to boycott marvel?

[@rollout1984]

Stan Lee was Jewish was he not?

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

He was

[@NerdsBane007]

Seems plausible to me. As an Israeli superhero, Sabra would be doing things in Gaza what IDF is doing. Fighting the "evil". You know what I mean.

[@ickystarsick9403]

So she would be rescuing hostages and stopping murderous extremists?

[@TheHammer2828]

Can you imagine this islamists controls the world with boycotting strategy,

[@yairfunnygaming9476]

That's not true

[@basheerahvanwykmollagee624]

Well Sabra is definitely israeli ifvshe can change her nationality at the drop of a hat 😂

[@berserkirclaws107]

😂😂😂 I don't really have skin in the game but I my opinion Disney didn't want the backlash of the current conflict in gaza but had already hired Shira Haas for the role prior to the the hamas attack. But why make her Russia that's is sooo weird. They should just have keep this FICTIONAL CHARACTER as it was.

[@rachelchristudoss4600]

The Israeli actress shouldn’t go along with this

[@unreal4good367]

that's not my problem

[@amityanuka]

What Shira has saying about it

[@yinweyko4302]

Superpower: Warcrimes

[@traveler7117]

They can call her captain genocide

[@emberashes6809]

They should call you captain dumbarse

[@ickystarsick9403]

She's not islamic though...

[@citadelchase8858]

It is just a movie... probably going to be on Netflix in a couple months... no big deal.

[@EmanuelaDilollo]

What a Shame!!!!☹️

[@gambitstudiosghana]

I was going to watch it because of Sabra, but now I am not so sure...

[@azrael2000]

don't watch that c-rap

[@beachbumvet8973]

IVE BEEN DONE WITH HOLLYWOOD FOR YEARS .....AM YISRAEL CHAI

[@ZS-rw4qq]

I mean the name was just too controversial

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

The name? The name sabra comes from the fruit: sabres which is like dragon fruit but with spikes

[@ZS-rw4qq]

@@user-sb7so5zg1j Yes, but associates some people to Sabra and Shatilla

[@smartanswer3159]

(Thing ) from fantastic 4 is Jewish too….

[@user-sb7so5zg1j]

Not all of them

[@carloumali9741]

And yet they support LGBTQ+ superheroes.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Of course they did

[@null.and.void.]

... I've never heard of sabra and I've been reading comics all my life.

[@YesmineMenyar]

Sabra like the 'sabra and shatila' massacre?

[@kevinovungal.7789]

But why🤔🤔

[@xxXnigerianhunterXxx]

Palestine

[@Juie1986]

and you guys probably cheered on when addidas dropped bela hadid... can't have it both ways guys. the world doesn't like israel right now. NOT ONE BIT> best you come to terms with how actions have consequences.

[@drganknstein]

F******* Marvel and Disney