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jerichogender · 2 years

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Someone had to mention it, but yeah, the entire Court of Owls storyline is antisemitic. Like, Bruce being judged by the Court draws straight from a Passion play, complete with a little girl ordering to "make him hurt". (In this reading Batman and Jesus are "one of the good ones".) In Dark Nights: Metal, also by Snyder, the Court is also known as the Judas tribe. Most recently they used mind control, a spell often attributed to Jews by antisemites, on Dick.

It’s been a while since I read the original Court of Owls storyline from the New 52 & I never read Dark Knights: Death Metal, so I’m not familiar with some of the plot points your referencing. That being said, if everything you mentioned squares with what happens in those books, then it definitely sounds like Scott Snyder has a pattern of writing antisemitic tropes into his comic book storylines, unconsciously or not

#i’m not going to tag the specific storylines here because i don’t remember them well enough to verify #also i’m not sure what storyline anon is referring to with the mind control part at the end #i would just like to point out that dick is roma & not jewish but maybe i’m missing context here for what you meant #also i’m not jewish so i’m far from the best person on this site to have a discussion with about antisemitism in comics #there are plenty of jewish comic fans on here that speak up about things like this #and have the cultural background & experiences to give good analysis & explain how these kind of tropes connect to real-life antisemitism #i didn’t want to leave this anon unanswered because i think this is an important area for comic book criticism #and i don’t think it gets anywhere near the level of discussion it deserves in comics fandom #anyway just don’t talk me as an authority on this please defer to jewish comic fans comfortable talking about these issues etc.#and for context to anyone else seeing this since i answered this a little late this is about the new gotham knights game #where they’re making jacob kane a jewish character be the leader of the court of owls #a secret organization that controls gotham from the shadows & is part of a larger international organization that controls the whole world #which relates to antisemitic conspiracy theories about jewish people controlling the media the banks and the world at large #*don’t take me as an authority #answered #antisemitism

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