ATTENTION MARVEL FANS!!!
BDS has added a specific MARVEL BOYCOTT because the next Captain America film features “Sabra/Ruth Bat-Seraph”—a character that personifies apartheid israel.
This character is known to:
- work for mossad
- continually talk about her hatred towards palestinians and arabs in the comics
- have attacked the hulk for helping a palestinian child (hulk briefly convinced her that palestinians are humans)
- have a syrian character (batal) as her antagonist
- bear the name of a horrific massacre (the sabra massacre—where pregnant women were murdered and their babies were cut out of their wombs) *i am aware sabra refers to a fruit but let’s be real: it is still connected to a massacre carried out by israeli armed forces on innocent civilians. (here’s a longer statement)
Marvel is complicit in anti-Palestinian racism, israeli propaganda, and the glorification settler-colonial violence. Having this character in a movie by one of the biggest franchises in the world, especially now while there is a genocide going on, is appalling and disgusting. There is no new approach one can take when the character has always been grounded in racism and propaganda.
BOYCOTT ALL MARVEL PRODUCTS UNTIL MARVEL REMOVES THIS CHARACTER
further information on the sabra and shatila massacre (to highlight how entirely tone deaf it is to have this character named “sabra” despite other definitions of the word)