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Bad Hasbara 85: Superheroes Us, with Babak

🕑 Added 2025-02-15 19:55:51 +0000 UTC

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Eavan Smith

Interesting guest - enjoyed this conversation

Simon

My throat is ready for a good slop-gargling

RubbishBinMan

anyone who's familiar with the MCU would be able to tell you that something they constantly do is take costumed superhero characters from old comic books and introduce them as basically dreary government agent types with no powers or superhero identity. It seems like they were going to have "Sabra" (she certainly would never have been named Sabra on-screen) be one of those, and then they changed which government/agency she works for. She's such a fucking obscure nothing character that it's weird they were going to include her in the first place.

Genevieve R

depending on the run Peter Parker is also jewish

Kim Silverstein

Slopslopslopslop

Jerty98

Trough time 🐷🐖🐷🐖🐷

LeobaL

Actually there was an attempt in late 2023 to revive the Sudra. It was about as effective as the "evidence" they got from al-Shifa Hospital the first time.

LeobaL

The introduction of a character called "Sabra" was always going to be problematic. Now the name is associated with a massacre in Lebanon in 1982, carried out by an Israeli backed Lebanese Christian militia during the Israeli instigated Lebanese civil war. The original use of "sabra" in relation to Israeli settlers, however, refers to the Zionist settlers in Palestine prior to the formation of Israel. The sabra is a prickly pear cactus indigenous to the region, and the Zionists decided its toughness and prickliness was a good metaphor for them. (Posers.) When the movie was announced with this character, I was scratching my head because I'd never heard of her, and I'm a Marvel nerd. So when I read the same Wikipedia page Matt did, I was scratching my head even more. Because there's one absolute truism of comic characters- they don't stick around if no one likes them. Sabra was introduced in the 1980s, and there have been many attempts to bring her into the comics since then. She hasn't stuck - BECAUSE NO ONE REALLY LIKES HER. So why on earth did Marvel Studios think she'd work now? I can only assume this was Disney getting involved again and saying there had to be an Israeli in there somewhere.