Superheroes are not necessarily popular in the Arab world. Wonder Woman, one of the iconic characters of DC Comics, experienced it when the film bearing its name, in 2017, was prohibited in Lebanon, Qatar and Tunisia. In question, the Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who played the title role, after playing a former Mossad agent in the Fast and Furious franchise. The Arab censors then criticized Gadot his support for the 2014 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, as well as his participation in the 2006 war in Lebanon.
The release in 2020 of the second part of the series, Wonder Woman 1984, took place in a more peaceful climate, against the backdrop of “Abraham agreements” and Arab normalization with Israel. Even the caricatured representation of an egypt in oil emirate aroused Ultimately little controversies . But it is the turn of the Marvel universe, owned by Walt Disney Company, to be now at the center of a stormy controversy.
a superheroine of mossad
The Marvel studios have just revealed that their next blockbuster, Captain America 4: New World Order, whose release is scheduled for 2024, will include a new superheroine, Sabra, of Israeli nationality. This character had appeared in 1980 in one of the adventures on Hulk paper, whose blind rage threatened this time to destroy such aviv.
A mossad agent, Ruth Bath Seraph, raised in a Kibbutz, then turned into Sabra, David star into a collar and tights in the blue and white colors of the Israeli flag. hunted up by Sabra, Hulk met a” young Arab “ who confided to her:” It’s hard to be an Arab in Israel, my people, as well as the Israelis, both affirm that this earth They belong to them. They could have shared if two very old books had not suggested that they kill each other in place. “Sabra ended up experiencing compassion for this” young Arab “, killed in a Palestinian attack.
Marvel has already attributed the role of Sabra to the Israeli actress Shira Haas, noticed on Netflix in the Unorthodox series. It didn’t take any more for a campaign to be launched on social networks against “Captain apartheid”, with Open letter to Marvel and Disney studios, accused of” legitimizing the crimes of the Israeli government “. They are also criticized for having called their Sabra superheroine, in full commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the massacre perpetrated, in Beirut in September 1982, in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Chatila. This trial of intention seems particularly questionable since “Sabra” was, before 1948, the Hebrew term to designate the Jews born in the land of Palestine, and therefore by extension the Israelis born since on site (this word drifts from The Hebrew appellation of the Fig of barbarism , spicy on the outside and soft inside).
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