Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. The classic 1981 Marvel comic page shows the giant green Hulk, tears streaming down his face as he yells at Sabra, an Israeli superhero and agent of the country’s Mossad spy agency. The corpse of a young Palestinian boy, killed in an explosion by apparently Arab “terrorists” at his feet.
Marvel’s Sabra character was created before the Sabra and Shatila massacre and has no relation to it, but the announcement to bring her to cinemas just a week before the massacre’s 40th anniversary has touched a raw nerve with Arabs, who accuse the film studio of being insensitive to one of the most tragic events in the history of the Palestinian people.
An Apartheid Israel should not be glorified as an American hero EVER!
Shame on your for giving a voice to anti-semitism. Moon Knight had an Arab superhero and Jews didn't complain because they're not the hatemongers in the region 🤷♂️
Véi parece a xuxameneghel
Go Israel 🇮🇱
Hey CNN look at the Iranians.
She is a bit dated I have to agree and probably one character that should just stay within the comics and out of the live action media that is more accessable internationally but still I'm overall not personally offended by her and even have her first appearance issue
I have a feeling they’re not gonna focus on that part of her story very much.
No comment.
Too many meanings to anything you see on hear. Live let’s live!!!
Garbage take by an anti-Semitic author. Yes, Jews are allowed to exist in their homeland and not be killed by Arabs launching unrelenting wars to exterminate them.
Israel is a rouge nation and shouldn't be supported by ANYONE
Go woke!
Arabs do a good job of doing that on their own without a superhero to point it out.
The “offensiveness to Arabs” does not match up with the description of the comic.
They are generally barbarians. Sharia law for example is the most disgusting barbaric pile of crap you can find. They hate women and pretty much anyone that doesn't believe in magical beings like Muhammad the false prophet. Get bent.
Nobody gives a fuck about these characters. The only point here is now they gonna make movies about their brutality? Such a shame suckers!
CNN should disclose that it’s parent company Warner Discovery owns DC Comics, the rival comic book publisher to Disney’s Marvel.
Does this 'hero' slaughter innocent children and rob families off their homes and lay siege to civilian populations for decades? Then yes it's a pretty accurate description of what an Israeli 'hero' would be.
Let her fight!
Idiotas!
Israel is an apartheid state
Why do you all keep complaining about Republicans! We the people keep telling you to Impeach and Ban Republicans from working in OFFICE!!!
Yawn... 🥱
😂 muslims are so easily trigged.
It's only a problem if you make it so, the people complaining already have a problem with anything Israeli and the Jewish population, and hate it when a strong character appears. The comparison with the Sabra Shatila event is BS as the character arrived years before it happened
For reference see 1972 Olympics, US Navy Seal Robert Stetham, Leon Clinghoffer, 241 US service members Beirut 1983, Theo van Gogh, Charlie Hebdo, osama bin ladin and last, not at all least Salmen Rushdie. I apologize if I forgot anyone. This is off the top of my head. No judgment
Aw hell nah lmfao
What next a Mexican batman haha Disney is just garbage I remember when it did not suck
Let me hear your comments so I can make a Muslim superhero Marvel
I think Disney will handle it fine.
The job of this superhero is to kill children, kill journalists, promote apartheid and protect terrorist settlers.
The 99?
imagine thor is muslim.
Super Jew?
the concern is Arabs will appear misogynistic, antisemitic and violent. Gee truth hurts, isis Al-Qaeda & Taliban may not represent all but if the people of the Middle East don’t do something about them then they must agree with their archaic barbaric violent mentality
Her main superpower is beating old people to death who don't leave their homes.
what is it with hero creators and their archaic over use of spandex and cape?
I had no idea this hero existed.
If they’re going to stoop to this level, they may as well introduce Captain Rhodesia, who was a member of the Rhodesian Intelligence Corps, as a “superhero,” as well.
Reaction to this is straight up antisemitism.
This if absolute garbage lede/article. This would never be the story had the character been ANY other minority character but a Jew. And the framing of ‘Arabs and Palestinians being dehumanized’ because of a Jewish superhero is straight anti-semitism. Just read the comments.
I wonder how long marvel studios will keep going for if the keep adding all new characters to the mcu?
When every other minority group gets a superhero, it’s celebrated. When it’s the Jews, it’s criticized 🤦♂️
Oh shit. What happens if they revive Captain Canuck? 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Spoiler alert: her superpower is to take any land at will and hack your phones
Villain is a 4 year old Palestinian boy at the playground
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