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Say NO to Marvel’s Israeli Mossad Agent Superhero

We are troubled by the distasteful announcement that an upcoming Marvel movie, Captain America: New World Order, will feature an Israeli Mossad agent named "Sabra" as a superhero. The character is described in the original cartoons as a “superheroine of the state of Israel,” 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.

Israel’s Mossad is an intelligence agency notorious for carrying out torture and extrajudicial assassinations, and whose agents have been placed on Interpol’s ‘most wanted' list for using fraudulent passports to commit murder, but who have never faced accountability for their crimes.

For Marvel and its parent company Disney to promote a character that not only normalizes an apartheid government and its murderous intelligence agency, but heroizes and lionizes them is deeply troubling, and to do this at a time when Israel’s apartheid government is under scrutiny and pressure for its onslaught against Palestinians raises serious concerns about the values guiding this entire franchise.

It is also noteworthy that, for millions of people throughout the Middle East and beyond, the word “Sabra” immediately evokes the memory of the massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon, who were brutalized and murdered by the hundreds, if not thousands, with assistance from the Israeli military. An Israeli inquiry laid “personal responsibility” at the feet of an Israeli military commander and a future prime minister of Israel’s apartheid government, Ariel Sharon, who is also remembered as “the butcher of Sabra and Shatila.”

We call on Disney & Marvel Studios to immediately reverse the harm it has caused and to immediately cancel the thoughtless plan to feature “Sabra” in its upcoming Marvel film.

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Dear Disney & Marvel Studios,

I am writing to you to express my deep concern about your plan to feature an Israeli Mossad agent named “Sabra” as a superhero in your upcoming film Captain America: New World Order. While I’m sure this was not your intention, there is no doubt that featuring this character will effectively contribute to whitewashing the crimes of Israel’s government at a time when the entire human rights community is placing focus on the fact that Israel is practicing apartheid against Palestinians, among a wider array of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The fact that this character’s origin in the comic books is promoted as a Mossad agent serving the state of Israel is also troubling in its own right. Israel’s Mossad is an intelligence agency notorious for carrying out torture and extrajudicial assassinations, and whose agents have been placed on Interpol’s ‘most wanted’ list for using fraudulent passports to commit murder, but who have never faced accountability for their crimes.

It is also worth noting that, for millions of people, the word “Sabra” immediately evokes the memory of the massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon, who were brutalized and murdered by the hundreds, if not thousands, with assistance from the Israeli military. An Israeli inquiry laid “personal responsibility” at the feet of an Israeli military commander and a future prime minister of Israel’s apartheid government, Ariel Sharon, who is also remembered as “the butcher of Sabra and Shatila.”

I’ve always loved Marvel movies and watched them with my family because they promoted values that I believe in, and lionized the importance of courage in the fight against evil. But I cannot in good conscience support a movie that does the opposite, lionizing a murderous state agency and whitewashing its crimes. I strongly urge you to reconsider what appears to be a thoughtless decision to feature this character.

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Say NO to Marvel’s Israeli Mossad Agent Superhero

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