Pro-Palestine Protestors Call For 'Captain America: Brave New World' Boycott at Los Angeles Premiere

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Variety

Several dozen pro-Palestine protestors gathered Tuesday outside the Hollywood premiere of "Captain America: Brave New World" and called for a boycott of the film over its inclusion of the Israeli superhero Ruth Bat-Seraph, aka Sabra, played by Shira Haas.

Protestors held signs that read "Sabra has got to go," "Disney supports genocide," "Boycott ‘Captain America'" and "Pray 4 Princess Jasmine." They chanted phrases such as "Free, free, free Palestine" and "Disney, Disney you can't hide."

The inclusion of Sabra, who was a Mossad agent in the comics, sparked controversy among Palestinian fans. Marvel soon released a statement assuring that it is taking a "new approach" to the character for "Brave New World."

"While our characters and stories are inspired by the comics," Marvel said in a statement to Variety, "they are always freshly imagined for the screen and today's audience, and the filmmakers are taking a new approach with the character Sabra who was first introduced in the comics over 40 years ago."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-my/movies/news/pro-palestine-protestors-call-for-captain-america-brave-new-world-boycott-at-los-angeles-premiere/ar-AA1yRNCK

[cabotnn22]

1. I'm sick of superhero movies - but I like Anthony Mackie

So, I'll probably watch it. I think protesting over an Israeli character is odious and akin to the right wing protesting a black Captain America.

[Deep State Witch]

8. I'm Just There for Harrison Ford

Again, sick of superhero movies. I'm just there for Harrison Ford.

[cabotnn22]

19. I didn't know he was in it!

I'm so out of the loop, it is ridiculous.

[Deep State Witch]

30. He Plays the President

Who, apparently, is like the current occupant of the WH, without the orange makeup.

[Initech]

12. I'll definitely watch it. I'm still sticking with the MCU!

As my favorite band says - "fuck the naysayers cause they don't mean a thing"!

[cabotnn22]

20. Don't mock me (well, okay..feel free to mock me) but

I'm a DC fan. I know, I know.

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. I don't usually gravitate to superhero movies

But this one looks interesting. Harrison Ford being in it doesn't hurt either.

[DetlefK]

2. That's cute but how come they don't protest against Trump's Gaza-policy???

Because they are Trump-voters. Arab-Americans voted overwhelmingly specifically against Harris.

[Ray Bruns]

3. These people do realize the characters are fictional, right?

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. Tinky Winky. . .Murphy Brown. . .black Ariel. . .black Captain America. . .black Santa.

Need I go on？

[Behind the Aegis]

25. But there is a HUGE difference in this case....

...I am sure you know what it is. ((( )))

[AZLD4Candidate]

29. Yes. . .this character is a Joo.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. You should have seen some of the reactions when there was rumor "Spiderman" would be gay or bi.

People lost their shit, including here!

I am a big comic book fan, especially DC, so there is something to be said for "truth" in the nature of the character. That said, there have been so many ret-cons because of the passage of time, characters have been changed to meet new issues and truths. I dislike when a character is "recreated" in a way that seems forced or the story is hurt by the change, but for the most part, many "updates" to comic characters and other fictional characters are interesting and new light and depth to the genres.

[Falcon101]

4. But Do Not Protest Trump

Hard to take it serious when a movie is protested against, but there are no protests against Trump's policy on Gaza. I truly do not understand it when there were protests everywhere against Biden and Harris who were trying to navigate a complex and difficult situation, but there are crickets against Trump's policies.

[DFW]

6. It's difficult to take any double standard seriously. n/t

[Oopsie Daisy]

7. Of course they do! 🤣😂🤣🤡

What clowns!

[iemanja]

9. FFS

How about protesting the White House?

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. Ikr?

[Richard D]

10. I haven't been to a theater since Dune . . .

. . . (which come to think about it is anti-Jihad to the max), and I don't like the theater experience much at all, but for this film I will make an exception.

[sarisataka]

11. Protesting a movie for having

a Jewish "Israeli" superhero but not the White House declaring Palestinians must leave Gaza forever.

Everyone has their priorities I suppose.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. I'm sorry

Don't they have anything more important to protest, like Vice President Trump's call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Protests like we saw when they were mad at Biden?

[Beastly Boy]

14. When will we (and the media) stop reacting every time a bunch of attention-starved halfwits

decide to make an embarrassing spectacle of themselves?

[Vinca]

15. Why aren't they protesting Trump for his plans to turn Gaza into a new golf resort for himself?

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Bigots gonna bigot

[C0RI0LANUS]

18. There are only 160,000 Palestinian-Americans in the entire US (0.05% of the population)

Michigan has 6,176 Palestinians. California has nearly 26,000, while NY has almost 9,000.

Sources:

https://zipatlas.com/us/state-comparison/largest-palestinian-community.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Americans

[mcar]

22. Maybe they should be protesting Mump

who is totally into ethnic cleansing.

[thebigidea]

24. easier than protesting Republicans I guess

[RainCaster]

26. Boycott Tesla & StarLink instead

Boycott a REAL bad guy instead of a pretend one.

[Keepthesoulalive]

27. Perhaps they are republicans

But I sincerely hope Sebastian Stan is in the movie.

[yaesu]

28. Wasn't going to watch but maybe I will now, thanks for the advertisement.

Now that Musk quit paying them they have as much clout as that fictional anonymous group.