#Sabra

[itneedsmoregays]

BOYCOTT ISRAEL!

Got this flyer from a pro-Palestine march today. Make sure to boycott all these businesses that are funding the genocide Israel is still committing in Gaza right now.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Chronically online people are furious at Shira haas for volunteering for the idf,,,

She served at the theatre company

Bruh this is funnier than people angry at Gal Gadot for serving as a fitness trainer

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

My parents just told me that Marvel is removing Sabra’s Israeli roots.

The article talks about this but they constantly whitewash Jewish characters, ignoring that the original creators were Jewish. Sabra is a Hebrew name, not a Russian name. Sabra is a metaphor for Jews born in Israel. Plus don’t the Russians also have other characters. I know there’s a war on but if any other minority had their character whitewashed there would be more outrage. Also Russia is currently in a war, one that they started.

[politicalunicorn]

Thoughts on Captain America: Brave New World

It wasn't that bad. Lots of people are saying that it sucked, and yes, I was hoping they would do something more interesting with the adamantium but c'est la vie.

The villain was definitely really scary. I think the direction choice of showing us individual people that The Leader was killing is arguably one of the best choices. I found several moments where I genuinely looked at the screen and gawked.

That being said, the villain felt almost cartoonish. Like? C'mon. that phone call with Ross was just... it felt like a my little pony villain, bsfr

JOAQUINNNN MY BABY!!!! We have been LACKING for Peter Parker-coded characters, and he is definitely one of them. I love the way people are calling him baby falcon, bc yes, but also the mentor-mentee relationship between him and Sam???

On that relationship, Sam and Joaquin have the relationship of siblings with a massive age difference. Like eight years at least. Joaquin idolizes Sam and Sam is fond of him, but teases him as well. It's just so cute.

SamBucky nation is winning. Enough said. The I love you was one thing but the "He's also 102 years old" like, ok??? gatekeeping your man?? ok, I see you Sam <3

I did not empathize with Thaddeus Ross. Maybe, if they made him a shittier father, yes I would get the whole new leaf thing. But making his entire arc of bs in the last fifteen years be about Betty was just...not it. Make him have more to prove.

Also the writing of the phone call? Please. I know Marvel writers can do better than that.

this is just a problem with film-making in general, but marinate in the silence. a lot of life is silence, real-life exists in the margins of conversations. like that conversation between Bucky and sam could've definitely had that silence to really pull that impact.

the fight scenes tho??? that was so good, that was acc such good choreography, OBSESSED.

Bucky as a congressman is something that I really like, but was unexpected. I can totally imagine him trying to make the world a better place, but we're probably going to get that guilt-complex justification that marvel always pulls with Bucky.

The Isiah arc?? that line of "Don't Come Back" was SO good. Also, his face when he was shoved into the ground and his cries about his suit, was HEARTBREAKING. just absolutely gorgeous. arguably the best acting performance.

Sabra??? Kind of unnecessary??? like, the black woman (I don't remember her name, sorry) that was Sam's friend in the White House would've had a better role. It would've also been an interesting way to analyze what it meant to be a black woman in the Red Room.

also, if we WERE going to analyze sabra as a character, what does it mean to be Israeli in the red room? I am not a huge fan of boycotting someone based on their identity, because you can't really change where you come from, but we could analyze the status of the ethno-state in the larger marvel universe if we could.

I really wish they had pushed the political intrigue storyline, so much harder.

we do want bruce banner back tho. specifically the insanely lovable version of him in Avengers 1.

I wish they'd make the dialogue more natural

the avengers plot line could've been tied in better?

TLDR: It was a really good movie, with some writing issues and some brilliant performances and some beautiful relationships.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Making Sabra Russian is so stupid, like imagine having a character from New Zealand named Kiwi whose costume is the New Zealand flag and then making them Canadian. Just use a different character! Or idk, let Israeli people exist??

[originalscreenname]

Decided to colorize Srulik Miku AKA Israeli Miku, yeah couldnt figure out how to draw the sandals so I gave her work boots lol

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I have to admit an uncomfortable amount of why I want to see the Captain America movie is to get an idea of exactly how The Gentiles (derogatory) are gonna lose their shit over Sabra

[magnetothemagnificent]

I have a personal headcanon that Ruth Bat-Saraph is actually related to Max Eisendhart, that Max's sister Ruth managed to survive the Holocaust and married a survivor of the Farhud, and her granddaughter is Ruth Bat-Saraph.

[id in alt text]

[captain-price-unofficially]

Turkish M60T Sabra with a banana'd barrel after a munition exploded in the barrel. Syria.

[itneedsmoregays]

Hey, so, you guys aren't gonna pay Disney money to watch Captain America: Brave New World, right?

You know, the upcoming MCU movie that features Shira Haas, an openly Zionist actress who voluntarily served in the IDF despite being medically exempt, playing Sabra who's an infamously pro-Israel Propaganda, Anti-Palestinian superheroine?

[just-tryina-live]

ok, I said I was over it, I lied. when the marvel execs said this movie would be ‘just like winter soldier!’ They were definitely not lying. I’ve seen people talk about how bad this movie is and even people saying it wasn’t so bad. How good or not good it was is besides the point!!!!!! They literally copy pasted the plot of CATWS, tweaked a few things, and added some BLM so that when inevitably, people said they hated it, they can cry racism! Like sorry, we’re not racists, we love Anthony Mackey and Carl Lumbly! Your movie was just BAD and they did what they could with the script. Don’t get me wrong, most actors involved did GREAT in their roles, and I almost died when I saw Bucky randomly showing up, but the plot didn’t make much sense because it was just CATWS in a different flavor! Another thing, because I got started and now I can’t stop, why would most of the marketing be that Red Hulk would be in the movie and then only show him for about ten minutes in the last half hour? And don’t get me started on how Sam ‘talked him down’!!! It literally took Bruce YEARS to get the Hulk under control, and he didn’t even have crazy anger issues!!! All we saw about Ross was that he was impulsive and angry and HE was able to get Red Hulk under control in like two seconds??? Make it make sense! Like I get that Bruce and Hulk are different people and Red Hulk and Ross are not, but it still doesn’t make sense that he was given this new super power and immediately learned how to control it. Part of the MCU problem these days is that the writers don’t realizes that if they want to continue the MCU, they need to leave problems to solve. Winter Soldier didn’t end with Bucky realizing who he was, it ended with him walking off into the distance, having saved Steve, on his way to becoming who he was. But Brave New World left nothing to the imagination. The Leader (I’m still upset they didn’t give him the huge head he has in the comics) is arrested, Ross is locked up (I did like that, poetic justice), and Sam goes off with the promise of recreating the avengers. That feels like the ending to a first novel or first movie in a series, like the author isn’t sure if they’ll be green lit for another one, so they need to wrap up all the loose ends, with just a hint of something to come, just in case. The end credits scene wasn’t even fun! We didn’t get to see any cameos, like Bruce at the end of Iron Man 3, or continue the story, like in Spider-Man Far From Home! All we got was the Leader telling us what we already know! That the doomsday is coming. Boring! I would’ve wanted to see Sam hanging out with Bucky or Sara chewing his ear off for not coming over all the time. Something fun like that. And if not fun, then it should be something to advance the plot! Maybe like the end credits scene where Thanos says ‘fine I’ll do it myself’ etc.

anyway in conclusion, this movie left much to be desired and was clearly a pale imitation of the artistry that was CATWS. And the MCU had got to step up their game and stop playing politics. (If you’re going to have an Israeli character in your movie, either make her actually Israeli and don’t erase her ethnicity and Jewishness, or don’t have her at all)

Kevin has got to figure this stuff out or the theaters are going to be empty by the time Doomsday comes out.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth Mandel

For the duration of the recent explosion in anti-Semitism in the West, the Jewish community has been warning of the erasure of Jewish and Israeli people and symbols from the public square. And now that has been done by Disney and Marvel studios in its major film franchise—and the response has been muted.

To say that this is a bleak portent for the future of American Jewish belonging would be an understatement.

The background, in brief, is as follows. Marvel, which is owned by Disney, announced a couple of years ago that it was finally bringing its Israeli superhero, Sabra, into the film franchise, though it soon became clear she would be a minor character in someone else’s story. There was an immediate uproar—Sabra is proudly Israeli (in the comic books, she works for the Mossad) and identifiably Jewish, her uniform consisting of a blue and white pattern with a Jewish star in the center. The entertainment world was up in arms that such a person would share the screen with their childhood heroes.

Marvel relented and assured everyone that the character, Ruth Bat-Seraph, would be reinterpreted, without explaining what the changes would be. In the end, Captain America: Brave New World remade the character into an Israeli-born, Russian-trained American superagent. She wears a business suit. She blends nicely into the background. “No one will even remember her,” writes Vulture’s Darrin Franich.

In a way, Disney and Marvel’s cowardice did us one favor: The fact that the character, played by Israeli actress Shira Haas, drew protests at movie theaters can put an end to claims that critics are motivated by anything other than the existence of Israeli people anywhere on earth.

-

A couple points here. First, the comics industry was built by Jews. Everyone making movies about comic-book heroes, and raking in the dough from ticket prices and licensing agreements, is doing so on the backs of the Jews who made it possible. As has been noted, “Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or ‘Comix’) movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish.”

Is this the “cultural genocide” I’ve heard so much about from smug college kids? It must be.

[prickly-porcupine-memes]

LIAR, i have not yet seen ONE meme about porcupines

Fair point, @superhgb.

Here are two.

[dreamhsworld]

I’m gonna go on a rant here, cause I want to hear your opinions on this.

Like, I genuinely would have never thought I’d say this about the MCU, the movies I grew up watching, but they’re like LEGIT military propaganda, you know? And I feel like we never realized, (or at least I never did), but this goddamned Captain America movie really hit the fucking fan no?

I know they downplayed the Sabra being A LEGIT MOSSAD AGENT thing and made her ultimately extremely boring, but to me, it’s not an accident ? The whole character arc of her being Captain America’s sidekick, especially NOW, doesn’t it seem deliberate to anyone else, or am I goddamn tweaking?

Let me give you an example on what I’m trying to say. The revolutionaries and whoever dares to challenge the status quo is instantly labeled as a villain.

Killmonger, who was saying WAKANDA WAS HOARDING RESOURCES, WHILE BLACK PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SUFFERED, and they end up making him a power-hungry dictator-in-the-making.

Flag Smashers, who wanted to help displaced people who got screwed over after the Blip. They are turned into extremists, and even though Cap gives a speech at the end on how he feels so bad, injustice and this and that, it’s basically saying: any movement that fights for the marginalized is almost “too radical” to be sympathetic.

The message across the board is clear:

If you challenge the system, you’re too extreme and must be stopped.

If you work within the system ( Tony, T’Challa, Cap), you’re a true hero.

[magical-grrrl-mavis]

Should've had Gal Godot play this evil cunt

[phobic-human]

The Uprising

Arabic translation: The stone (icon of the intifada or uprising) avenges Palestinian blood (reference to the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacres)

Artist: Mark Rudin/Jihad Mansour (1945-2023)

Circa 1989