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Today’s blacklisted American: Marvel bans all Jewish or Israelis characters

Hamas vs Israel
Apparently Marvel is okay with these facts.
Courtesy of Doug Ross.

They’re coming for you next: In a sign that the corporate world is still kow-towing to pro-Hamas anti-Semites, Marvel Studios had decided to erase a long-standing Israeli character from its next Captain America movie, changing her from a former Israeli Mossad agent to a former Soviet spy with no links to any Jewish heritage.

While in the original Marvel comics continuity, Ruth Bat-Seraph serves as the Mossad agent mutant superhero Sabra, in a recent summary for the February 2025 film Bat-Seraph is described as a former member of the Soviet Russian Black Widow super spy program – the same program that trained Scarlett Johansson’s Avengers of the same name.

The summary made no mention of Bat-Seraph’s codename, Sabra, which comes from the slang term for native-born Israeli, though other characters are referred to by their alter-egos.

Anti-Israel activists have taken issue with the inclusion of Sabra in the film since the unorthodox star’s casting was announced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige at the 2022 D23 Expo event in Anaheim, California.

American Muslims for Palestine launched a letter campaign against Disney and Marvel Studios soon after the “distasteful” announcement, complaining that the character served “a state that is recognized by the entire human rights community as an apartheid regime, guilty of ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people.”


The irony of this, as noted at the link, is that Marvel chose to change the character to a Russian, a country that invaded the Ukraine for no cause except to conquer it. Israel in turn is simply attempting to destroy the anti-Semitic Gaza organization, Hamas, that did essentially the same as Russia, invade without cause to rape, torture, and murder men, women, children, and babies. It is also trying to rescue the innocent hostages this murderous organization kidnapped and still holds.

As noted here, Sabra has been a Jewish Israeli character in the Marvel pantheon since 1980.

They are erasing an Israeli Jew identity because controversy, and turning her into a Russian. So Courage! Much Principles! [emphasis in original]

Essentially, Marvel is just another corporate bootlicker to the DEI, critical race theory, queer agenda, and pro-Hamas crowd. It now touts these ideas openly and with enthusiasm in its movies and comic books, and anything that crowd opposes it quickly erases. And apparently, Jews and Israelis must be banned, because our new 21st century Nazis demand it.

Maybe Marvel — to better please its pro-Hamas overlords — should consider firing any Jews it might have in its work force. Or maybe it can have them wear yellow Star of David patches so that others will be able to identify them and avoid them in order to not get dirtied by them.

Or maybe you and I and everyone else should simply stop paying any money to see or buy anything Marvel produces, since by doing so we are apparently supporting a Nazi-loving anti-Semitic company.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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8 comments

  • Col Beausabre

    “Much Principles!”

    They are sticking to their principles Their warped, sick, racist, fascist, genocidal principles

  • wayne

    Marvel Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

  • Craken

    American Jews invented the American regime of Minoritarianism. They also ensured the 1965 Immigration Act was passed. They created this situation. They’re just impeccable Leftists when they live in someone else’s country. But, in their own country, what do they get up to? Well, for a start, you can’t immigrate to the nation of the Chosen People unless you are one of the Chosen. That’s not very Leftist, now is it? Then there’s the fact that their possession of that land is merely a result of the Might makes Right philosophy. Of course, they share this tribal philosophy with those they call the bad guys, who are their distorted reflection, as in a mirror that lowers IQ by 20 points: the Islamists. The third group with a religious claim on that land, the Christians, haven’t sought to impose this brutal philosophy since the Crusades.

    The Jews can’t have their cake and eat it anymore. They can’t claim moral supremacy on Leftist terms and run a functional country. Leftism is not functional. So far, the Jews are losing on both fronts. They can’t finish Hamas because of the Leftist moral restrictions shouted down from the American-Jewish communists who control the propaganda system. Yet, they can’t retreat in face of their two front war, which means American Jews will continue to be attacked by their fellow Leftists in America. Another element of their fate: American Jews must be Leftists. It’s their nature. They are the scorpion in the frog and scorpion fable. In Palestine, there are no frogs for them to victimize. It’s a desert full of scorpions, too inhospitable for any frog.

  • Andrew R.

    I doubt Marvel & Disney would get away with this if Stan Lee was still alive. He was born Stanley Martin Leiber, son of Romanian born Jewish parents. Disney has absolutely no shame, and Marvel has no pride or guts anymore. They’re slaves to Wokeness, and going for broke – literally and figuratively.

  • Mark Sizer

    their possession of that land is merely a result of the Might makes Right philosophy.
    Name one country where that is not the case. Also, it happened 4,000(ish) years ago; it’s a bit late to be arguing about it. As far as I’m aware, no one is arguing that the Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites.

    It’s been a while since I’ve read Exodus, so I’m open to corrections.

  • Richard M

    The irony of this, as noted at the link, is that Marvel chose to change the character to a Russian, a country that invaded the Ukraine for no cause except to conquer it.

    It seems like the Unspoken Rules allow Russians to be used in non-villain roles, but only if they are rogue or disaffected from the Russian regime in some way. Which is basically how Black Widow has been depicted (when they mention her Russian heritage at all).

    Meanwhile, a young orthodox Jew was beaten senseless yesterday by some nutter screaming ““The children in Gaza! The children in Palestine! We know! We know who you are!” at the Foggy Bottom metro station here in DC. He was wearing a kippah, so I guess he was considered fair game.

  • Jeff Wright

    It’s all sad.

    Folks just need to leave each other alone

  • wayne

    Stan Lee –
    Writing for the army
    https://youtu.be/zhcpmcbtcMg
    4:31

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