They know. They like committing genocide. They just don’t want international consequences for it.

Its antisemitic to say its bad to bomb defenseless people....

Israel isn’t Judaism and Judaism isn’t Israel! Mixing that up is problematic because you’re confounding anti-zionism (a settler colonial state project committing genocide) with anti-semitism.

Mixing that up is intentional, so that you can be accused of being antisemitic by not supporting Israel. Politicians love to do this.

At the start of the movie, Superman has just stopped an invasion. The fictional country Barovia, a US ally, has advanced weaponry and attempts to invade and annex a much smaller and poorer fictional country Jarhanpur which doesn't appear to have a military of any kind. Barovia is ethnically white (coded as Eastern European/Russian) and Jarhanpur is ethnically more middle eastern.

It is not a giant leap to correlate these countries to Isreal and Palestine, but really those superficial details are where the the similarities begin and end. There is no apparent religious connection to the invasion, nor terrorist activity. No ongoing tensions, direct involvement from the US goverment in the invasion, or any act of war or other event that triggers Barovia to invade. It is just a powerful country attacking a smaller country for their resources on the orders of a power hungry dictator. It's a trope that is not exclusively related to current events, that made as much sense 50 years ago as it does today. And the purpose of it in the film is to both critique Superman's naivete of geopolitics, and to reinforce his values that every life matters.

People that are mad about it and pretending that it is explicitly a depiction of the Isreali-Palestinian war are projecting meaning that isn't there, at least beyond maybe some subtext. It's always a bit telling when people see generic bad guys in a movie and think, "this is about me!" But, of course, if they felt that the depiction of the overwhelming military force against civilians made the Palestinians seem sympathetic to them... maybe they should think a bit more about why that is.

I haven't seen it, but I think it's pretty apparent in the trailer. Superman is supermaning, and modern powers, both real and fictional, don't like that.

Its really simple:

If you are a Zionist, Israel=Zionism=Judaism.

If you are not a Zionist, Israel<>Zionism<>Judaism.

The non Zionists are objectively correct, but Zionists are extremely good at intentionally not understanding this.

Its really no different than any member of any religion that cannot concieve of a non-objective, non-universal morality system.

They are brainwashed, propogandized, and cannot divorce the concepts, because they've been so strongly confounded and confabulated together in ways that are actually not logically consistent, but held together with an explicitly irrational faith.

You should see the definitions and examples of antisemitism the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

That's what they've been pushing.

I see where Trump got his name calling ideas from.

Sealing wax, wow sick burn...

Oh wow. I didn't know he was controversial from the start.

Jerry "Sealing Wax" (Siegallack)

holy shit the nazis always had 4chan humor even in the 1930s

1984's doublethink

The movie unironically blasted Israel beyond a shadow of a doubt. Pretty insane after Bassem Youssef supposedly got fired as superman for being anti Israel 2 years ago. James Gunn redemption arc.

Bloody anti-Semitic Hollywood. It's so typical and clearly there are no Jews working there...

the movie is ok.

fun watch, nothing too ground breaking.

This is the right take. Well put.

My Jewish friends never bought into it either.

100%, fuck the country of Israel, the people leading the country, and the people hands on murdering civilians. Death to the IDF.

I like how they don't even bother saying it's a lie. They just say it's aimed at them.

I keep expecting Jeff Bezos to get angry at the portrayal of Lex Luthor to top it off.

Well, the shoe fits.

They aren't asking that question. They know they are.

I can all but guarantee that's an American writing that comment anyway.

They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It's not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean, which isn't that surprising because that's where they are. Palestinians are a lot lighter than people seem to think.

Unless we're going with the US definition of race, in which anybody coming from a poor country is non-white. I mean, they used to think the Italians and Irish weren't white.