Antisemitism is a fundamental part of DEI & the modern progressive movement. Disney’s philosophy is based entirely on DEI, so Disney’s erasure of Sabra’s Israeli and Jewish identity reflects Disney’s current culture. The intersection of DEI and antisemitism is explained in “Woke Antisemitism,” by David Bernstein. This obsession with DEI is just one reason why Disney has destroyed the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
At this rate they may replace Captain America with Sinwar if they can smuggle him out Khan Younis. I love Star Wars, but I found the Acolyte to be unwatchable.
I think I'm done with Disney for awhile. I'll wait a decade or two for the pendulum to swing back the other way and the next generation to fix it and reboot everything. I would love to help Jews crowdfund buying the rights to Sabra's character from Disney and making the most Zionist action spy thriller ever made. We have to save Sabra from these people.
Someone posted on another thread about this that Israel and Jews have IDF soldiers to look up to and countless stories of civilian heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. I agree that as Jews and Israelis we may no longer need superheroes, we have living ones.
That said, the representation does matter to open up peoples minds outside of Israel to what society is really like there and not just what they see through the bias lens of traditional media.
I appreciate your perspective, but I believe the representation can come in the form of straight white religious men, but why not also gay Israelis, Ethiopians, women, immigrants, etc. part of Israel’s strength comes from its freedom of expression and individuality and that all these groups can live and work together toward common goals.
All you are doing is demonstrating the exact mindset that led to us being overrun by savages on oct 7, and caused us to continue being stuck in an as now nine month war, which should have at most taken three.
The view you are espousing does not work in the long run.
Why do I not want gay Israeli superheroes? Because a society that makes heroes out of homosexuals is a society that quickly finds itself with non functioning men and bitter women.
We don’t agree on this. I served with gay Israeli men who are brave and selfless hero’s and continue to contribute meaningfully to Israeli society. There’s room in Israel for everyone, Zionism is not an exclusionary dream. I hope more people open their minds to accept the beliefs of ultra Orthodox Jews and vice versa. I think we’re stronger together and the types of views you’re espousing divide us in ways that aren’t necessary.
There is more we have in common than not, but you’re constantly focused on driving a wedge between us. Why can’t secular Jews respect your beliefs and you respect theirs and where we have common ground we can work together as an alternative?
And the ultimate result of this mindset was an easily preventable massacre by savages and an ongoing nine month war that should have ended after three.
Also talking about respect is hilarious given the last time we argued you were practically celebrating the idea of trying to force the ultra orthodox to serving in the army against their will. Which I was cursing you out for bc your timing, ie the middle of a war, was demented and if cooler heads hadnt prevailed, the Likud coalition would have broken and we would now be pretending not to surrender while surrendering.
Further, again, I specifically wasnt talking about ultra orthodox, or even orthodox, yet this is the second time youve brought it up.
Liberal humanism is a fun and enchanting philosophy, but very few are willing to die for it, and even fewer are willing to raise a lot of children for it, so ultimately its a dead end.
Everyone must understand that DEI is a communist idea intended to do the opposite of what it claims to seek. It is an intentional sharp blade designed to painfully severe one group from another and thereby creating yet another division between the oppressed and the oppressor classes.
It is amazing to me that this generation seems to be so woefully ignorant of age old communist tactics used to divide and conquer nations and set up a dictatorship and enslave the people. That it has had a popular run in America is proof of the ignorance of communism in this country.
Indeed, this is true. That is likely the reason our founding fathers deplored “democracy” and established a constitutional republic that makes it possible to leverage the benefits of democracy and avoid the miserable consequences of mob rule that a pure democracy establishes.
It appears our incessant online bitching and complaining may have actually made an impact and that Disney is considering changing course on their decision to strip Sabra of her Israeli identity.
Let's not celebrate until this thing comes out though and we see what damage has been to done her and how she's been portrayed.
Great. I can’t wait for the Black Panther reboot where they cast Rick Moranis in the lead role.
“While our characters and stories are inspired by the comics, they are always freshly imagined for the screen and today’s audience, and the filmmakers are taking a new approach with the character Sabra…”
This deeply saddens but does not surprise me because in a past series on Disney +, Captain America basically condoned terrorist murders and bombings in the name of "social justice." I was appalled and horrified at the time that a family streaming platform would endorse this, but I guess society is now like the proverbial frog in the pot (not scientifically true), that doesn't notice or care when the waters start to boil. I guess Walt Disney's real legacy is antisemitism.
The audacity to erase the Jewish identity of a Jewish character in a series by a Jewish person… it’s literally sickening.
The disgusting remake of Mean Girls from earlier this year (that no one asked for) also erased the Jewish identity of Gretchen Wieners— yet another testament to this chronic, trendy, antisemitic erasure— but this is on another level.
In my opinion, it is impossible for anyone to actually “erase” the true, honorable identity of the brave Jewish people.
I know of no other race of people who can claim that they were chosen by God to be his people because of the faith of their father, Abraham.
Disney did not create the identity of the Jewish people and they cannot, by the mere manipulation of a fictitious character, either create or destroy the indelible and honorable character of the Jewish people.
What can, and should be done in response to Disney is to live a life that honors your glorious inheritance and blessings from God. The anti-semites can do nothing to alter the true Character of the Jews. I would suggest living up to the standards God set for your people and let identity politics take whatever path it chooses. Then the entertainment industry will learn the futility of the struggle between fiction and fact, between self induced illusions and reality, between a fictitious character that is easy to manipulate and a genuine character that is immutable, solid, and set in the concrete truth of deeds done.
I agree with you. I do not think that boycotts are the way to solve problems. My comment was not intended to suggest or call for a general boycott of Disney. My intent was to express the end of my and my family’s favorable impression of them and justification for our personal choice to have nothing to do with them. They will not miss my business. But my family will always know that we embrace that which is good and wholesome but we have nothing to do with any organization that promotes evil. If my grandkids had never seen lion king I would have no aversion to their seeing it. But the fact that they have seen it means that Disney has nothing wholesome and good to offer my family. Hence I do not foresee doing business with them because they have nothing to offer my family that we want or need plus the lesson I am teaching the grandkids is to have nothing to do with evil, no matter where it is found.
But please know that I am not one who refuses to buy things that I need or that benefits my family in order to force a company or any individual to live up to my standards. I just refuse to associate my name with evil characters for the sake of my personal integrity and my family’s moral stand and safety .
I grew up in a time when Disney was highly respected for their wholesome cartoons and stories that made us laugh and inspired us to be and do good things.
But that has all changed into the direct opposite poll of evil incarnate. For that reason o have not had anything to do with Disney. My grand kids are homeschooled and they care nothing about going to Disney world of darkness and wickedness. My entire family is done with Disney and there is nothing they can do to bring us back to doing any kind of business with them. Nothing!
Disney has done some stuff our kids love. They love Moana and the Lion King. I wouldn’t want to take those things away from them. I don’t think boycotts are the best way to deal with these things.
When you boycott you actually cede influence in that organization to others and force them to focus their energy elsewhere. I want to hear ideas besides boycott if anyone has any on what we should do here.
This reminds me of my unhappiness with NBC for the latest Law and Order reboot: instead of allowing the Israeli actress to portray an Israeli Jew, they made her character a Lebanese Muslim. 🤷🏻♀️
Really? Was that because the secret services of Lebanon, with its sectarian quota system, have an even more stellar reputation for their professional skills than Israel's services? Riiight!
Great article. Your last comment is the best: “No one respects anyone who doesn’t respect themselves first.”
Let’s hope we regain that as a people and a nation.
I stopped Disney after the Gina Carano episode, so I haven’t even seen the rest of Mandalorian. But I just can’t give them my money. My granddaughters’ Jewish day camp took the girls to Sea World, for so many reasons, a much better choice!
Yes, but this comment of hers, which may have included the words 'wake up sheeple' was this very prescient remark which was the last straw for Disney:
"Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors... even by children... Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?"
Thanks for that explanation. I do think if we can get back to debating about the policies and not the people, that could help, but the personalities and leadership are such a huge part of politics, it's not easy to separate them.
To get back to your point about Disney, the sad part of losing Sabra is that people the world over won't get to see us in a good light. It's why Wonder Woman was banned in a lot of the Arab countries. Goes against the narrative, creates dissonance and questioning.
I don't think it's just about personalities in politics. I am a mediator, and I see the same thing happen all the time. Both sides use the exact same words, literally, the exact words, and have two completely different meanings, and more than that, ascribe negative connotations to anything the other side says. This is what pervades our political realm as well.
Antisemitism is a fundamental part of DEI & the modern progressive movement. Disney’s philosophy is based entirely on DEI, so Disney’s erasure of Sabra’s Israeli and Jewish identity reflects Disney’s current culture. The intersection of DEI and antisemitism is explained in “Woke Antisemitism,” by David Bernstein. This obsession with DEI is just one reason why Disney has destroyed the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
Thank you, I will check out that book.
At this rate they may replace Captain America with Sinwar if they can smuggle him out Khan Younis. I love Star Wars, but I found the Acolyte to be unwatchable.
I think I'm done with Disney for awhile. I'll wait a decade or two for the pendulum to swing back the other way and the next generation to fix it and reboot everything. I would love to help Jews crowdfund buying the rights to Sabra's character from Disney and making the most Zionist action spy thriller ever made. We have to save Sabra from these people.
We need straight male Israeli superheroes who are traditional, honest, clever have common sense and respect religion even if they arent dati.
Our sisters are brave lionesses, They love us. We are not doing them any favors by portraying ourselves as either non existent or neurotic losers.
THEY love us bc they see us as amazing. They do not want their men to be second rate to anyone
Fuck this weak bullshit. Enough with supplicating every non Jewish male on the planet.
Only non Jewish men are allowed to brave and moral. If its a Jew he has to be gay or neurotic or an atheist.
Our people need Captain Israel.
And i will be more blunt.
I do not give a flying shit if it makes anyone outside our people happy. I care about OUR YOUTH.
Someone posted on another thread about this that Israel and Jews have IDF soldiers to look up to and countless stories of civilian heroism in the face of overwhelming odds. I agree that as Jews and Israelis we may no longer need superheroes, we have living ones.
That said, the representation does matter to open up peoples minds outside of Israel to what society is really like there and not just what they see through the bias lens of traditional media.
I appreciate your perspective, but I believe the representation can come in the form of straight white religious men, but why not also gay Israelis, Ethiopians, women, immigrants, etc. part of Israel’s strength comes from its freedom of expression and individuality and that all these groups can live and work together toward common goals.
Also i didnt say “religious men”. I said “respect religion even if thry are NOT dati”
All you are doing is demonstrating the exact mindset that led to us being overrun by savages on oct 7, and caused us to continue being stuck in an as now nine month war, which should have at most taken three.
The view you are espousing does not work in the long run.
Why do I not want gay Israeli superheroes? Because a society that makes heroes out of homosexuals is a society that quickly finds itself with non functioning men and bitter women.
We don’t agree on this. I served with gay Israeli men who are brave and selfless hero’s and continue to contribute meaningfully to Israeli society. There’s room in Israel for everyone, Zionism is not an exclusionary dream. I hope more people open their minds to accept the beliefs of ultra Orthodox Jews and vice versa. I think we’re stronger together and the types of views you’re espousing divide us in ways that aren’t necessary.
There is more we have in common than not, but you’re constantly focused on driving a wedge between us. Why can’t secular Jews respect your beliefs and you respect theirs and where we have common ground we can work together as an alternative?
And the ultimate result of this mindset was an easily preventable massacre by savages and an ongoing nine month war that should have ended after three.
Also talking about respect is hilarious given the last time we argued you were practically celebrating the idea of trying to force the ultra orthodox to serving in the army against their will. Which I was cursing you out for bc your timing, ie the middle of a war, was demented and if cooler heads hadnt prevailed, the Likud coalition would have broken and we would now be pretending not to surrender while surrendering.
Further, again, I specifically wasnt talking about ultra orthodox, or even orthodox, yet this is the second time youve brought it up.
Liberal humanism is a fun and enchanting philosophy, but very few are willing to die for it, and even fewer are willing to raise a lot of children for it, so ultimately its a dead end.
Excellent book.
Everyone must understand that DEI is a communist idea intended to do the opposite of what it claims to seek. It is an intentional sharp blade designed to painfully severe one group from another and thereby creating yet another division between the oppressed and the oppressor classes.
It is amazing to me that this generation seems to be so woefully ignorant of age old communist tactics used to divide and conquer nations and set up a dictatorship and enslave the people. That it has had a popular run in America is proof of the ignorance of communism in this country.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others!
Indeed, this is true. That is likely the reason our founding fathers deplored “democracy” and established a constitutional republic that makes it possible to leverage the benefits of democracy and avoid the miserable consequences of mob rule that a pure democracy establishes.
It appears our incessant online bitching and complaining may have actually made an impact and that Disney is considering changing course on their decision to strip Sabra of her Israeli identity.
Let's not celebrate until this thing comes out though and we see what damage has been to done her and how she's been portrayed.
https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-811245
Good start team.
They can try and erase us as much as they like but you can’t erase the truth
Always! 🙏🇮🇱🙏 + 🙏🇺🇸🙏
I’m not Jewish, but there are plenty of us who are horrified and angered by recent events. October 7th opened a lot of people’s eyes.
As for Disney, I’ve been boycotting them since they started all this DEI crap. NOTHING is diverse, equitable, or inclusive about what they’re doing.
Thank you Farrox for being a part of Maccabee Nation and your support!
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Disney should do this. Hold on ... weren't Walt and Henry Ford best friends and didn't Henry ...
Or could it just be that they are a bunch of little scaredy cats who want to lose another couple of billion?
Walt died, but the antisemitism didn't.
Great. I can’t wait for the Black Panther reboot where they cast Rick Moranis in the lead role.
“While our characters and stories are inspired by the comics, they are always freshly imagined for the screen and today’s audience, and the filmmakers are taking a new approach with the character Sabra…”
If Tom Cruise was the Last Samurai anything can happen :)
This deeply saddens but does not surprise me because in a past series on Disney +, Captain America basically condoned terrorist murders and bombings in the name of "social justice." I was appalled and horrified at the time that a family streaming platform would endorse this, but I guess society is now like the proverbial frog in the pot (not scientifically true), that doesn't notice or care when the waters start to boil. I guess Walt Disney's real legacy is antisemitism.
The audacity to erase the Jewish identity of a Jewish character in a series by a Jewish person… it’s literally sickening.
The disgusting remake of Mean Girls from earlier this year (that no one asked for) also erased the Jewish identity of Gretchen Wieners— yet another testament to this chronic, trendy, antisemitic erasure— but this is on another level.
I hope it fails miserably.
It will, everything Disney touches lately turns to shit. 💩
In my opinion, it is impossible for anyone to actually “erase” the true, honorable identity of the brave Jewish people.
I know of no other race of people who can claim that they were chosen by God to be his people because of the faith of their father, Abraham.
Disney did not create the identity of the Jewish people and they cannot, by the mere manipulation of a fictitious character, either create or destroy the indelible and honorable character of the Jewish people.
What can, and should be done in response to Disney is to live a life that honors your glorious inheritance and blessings from God. The anti-semites can do nothing to alter the true Character of the Jews. I would suggest living up to the standards God set for your people and let identity politics take whatever path it chooses. Then the entertainment industry will learn the futility of the struggle between fiction and fact, between self induced illusions and reality, between a fictitious character that is easy to manipulate and a genuine character that is immutable, solid, and set in the concrete truth of deeds done.
Thank you, Jason.
I agree with you. I do not think that boycotts are the way to solve problems. My comment was not intended to suggest or call for a general boycott of Disney. My intent was to express the end of my and my family’s favorable impression of them and justification for our personal choice to have nothing to do with them. They will not miss my business. But my family will always know that we embrace that which is good and wholesome but we have nothing to do with any organization that promotes evil. If my grandkids had never seen lion king I would have no aversion to their seeing it. But the fact that they have seen it means that Disney has nothing wholesome and good to offer my family. Hence I do not foresee doing business with them because they have nothing to offer my family that we want or need plus the lesson I am teaching the grandkids is to have nothing to do with evil, no matter where it is found.
But please know that I am not one who refuses to buy things that I need or that benefits my family in order to force a company or any individual to live up to my standards. I just refuse to associate my name with evil characters for the sake of my personal integrity and my family’s moral stand and safety .
I think that's a good explanation Lee. I feel similarly.
I grew up in a time when Disney was highly respected for their wholesome cartoons and stories that made us laugh and inspired us to be and do good things.
But that has all changed into the direct opposite poll of evil incarnate. For that reason o have not had anything to do with Disney. My grand kids are homeschooled and they care nothing about going to Disney world of darkness and wickedness. My entire family is done with Disney and there is nothing they can do to bring us back to doing any kind of business with them. Nothing!
Disney has done some stuff our kids love. They love Moana and the Lion King. I wouldn’t want to take those things away from them. I don’t think boycotts are the best way to deal with these things.
When you boycott you actually cede influence in that organization to others and force them to focus their energy elsewhere. I want to hear ideas besides boycott if anyone has any on what we should do here.
This reminds me of my unhappiness with NBC for the latest Law and Order reboot: instead of allowing the Israeli actress to portray an Israeli Jew, they made her character a Lebanese Muslim. 🤷🏻♀️
Really? Was that because the secret services of Lebanon, with its sectarian quota system, have an even more stellar reputation for their professional skills than Israel's services? Riiight!
Thank you for this! I am not a comic book nerd and knew nothing of this before your essay. Shame on Disney!
Thank you for reading and being a part of Maccabee Nation.
Great article. Your last comment is the best: “No one respects anyone who doesn’t respect themselves first.”
Let’s hope we regain that as a people and a nation.
I stopped Disney after the Gina Carano episode, so I haven’t even seen the rest of Mandalorian. But I just can’t give them my money. My granddaughters’ Jewish day camp took the girls to Sea World, for so many reasons, a much better choice!
Hey AB, what happened with Gina Carano? Was she the one who was fired for being a trump supporter ?
Yes, but this comment of hers, which may have included the words 'wake up sheeple' was this very prescient remark which was the last straw for Disney:
"Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors... even by children... Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?"
Thanks for that explanation. I do think if we can get back to debating about the policies and not the people, that could help, but the personalities and leadership are such a huge part of politics, it's not easy to separate them.
To get back to your point about Disney, the sad part of losing Sabra is that people the world over won't get to see us in a good light. It's why Wonder Woman was banned in a lot of the Arab countries. Goes against the narrative, creates dissonance and questioning.
I don't think it's just about personalities in politics. I am a mediator, and I see the same thing happen all the time. Both sides use the exact same words, literally, the exact words, and have two completely different meanings, and more than that, ascribe negative connotations to anything the other side says. This is what pervades our political realm as well.