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Marvel Entertainment The decision to change the identity of a long-standing Israeli character to one featured in the upcoming film “Captain America: Brave New World” has created a buzz in Jewish media.
The superhero receiving the update is Ruth Bat-Seraph, who first appeared in Marvel Comics over 40 years ago as an agent of the Israeli international intelligence agency Mossad. She is a mutant with an alter-ego named Sabra, which is the Hebrew word for a person of birth. Israel.
The Marvel Studios logo is projected on a screen behind Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige as he speaks onstage during the Walt Disney Studios Special Presentation at CinemaCon 2022 at Caesars Palace on April 27, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The Times of Israel reported: DisneyThe company, which owns Marvel, drew condemnation from anti-Israel activists when it announced that Sabra, played by Israeli actress Shira Haas, would appear in the new Captain America movie in 2022.
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The studio later said in a statement that the film, due for release on Valentine’s Day next year, would “take a different approach to the character of Sabra.”
A sign near the entrance to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Disney owns Marvel Entertainment. (Joe Raedl/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Now Marvel is under fire from pro-Israel activists, who accuse the studio of bowing to political pressure and “erasing” Sabra’s Israeli identity.
The announcement, released when the film’s trailer was released last week, made no mention of Sabra, simply listing the character’s real name, Ruth Bat-Seraph, and made no mention of Israel or the Mossad, describing her as a “former Black Widow” and current “senior U.S. government official.”
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Pro-Israel activist Hen Mazigh slammed the change to X, accusing Marvel of erasing its “only Israeli superhero.” In an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post, he wrote that “erasing Sabra’s Jewish identity is also an insult to the American Jews who literally invented the comic book superhero genre.”
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