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never forget that in 2014 gal gadot publicly supported the Israeli militaries violent ambush in the gaza strip that led to the murder of four young palestinian boys who were playing soccer on the beach and WW84 screen wrote her character to save arab children playing soccer for entertainment purposes hollywood can CHOKE
Wonder Woman in Justice League (2017)
I just push some people and run away.
That Gal Gadot has never ‘supported the Palestinian genocide’.
Does not have a rifle with the notch marks of all those she’s killed.
And has stated outright that she believes in coexistence.
She worked as a fitness instructor, never seeing combat during her mandatory stint in the Israeli army (IDF), and the only thing she said was that she wished luck to her former colleagues in the army (you know, the equivalent of ‘Support Our Troops’) and specifically wished them luck against (and condemned) Hamas, which is a terrorist organization. Her tags then went on to note #stopterror and #coexistance.
You don’t have to like her, or Wonder Woman, or DC, but if you could keep the antisemitism out of it, that’d be great.
I’m gonna need some sources cause I’ve been very conflicted about wanting to go see the movie.
The text is a little small but here’s a transcript:
“I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens. Especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas, who are hiding like cowards behind women and children. We shall overcome! Shabbat Shalom! #weareright #freegazafromHamas #stopterror #coexistence #iloveidf”
So one more time:
In Israel, EVERY citizen is REQUIRED to serve in the IDF. It is a mandatory conscription army. So her involvement in the army wasn’t really a ‘choice’. And she’s sending love out to other people, young people, who also didn’t really have a choice.
The only thing she ever condemns or supports their fight against is Hamas, which has been condemned as a terrorist organization by multiple countries with verified human rights violations and who has been known to obstruct efforts towards a peaceful resolution.
She objects to terrorist action and the killing of civilians. She tags it ‘coexistence’ and ‘stopterror’.
Nowhere does she support Israeli dominance, or the horrific treatment of Palestinians. Nowhere does she carte blanche support Israel’s actions; she just expresses her concern and is praying for the ‘boys and girls’ who are part of her country’s military in the face of horrific terrorist behavior. Nowhere does she wholesale blame Palestinians for the conflict and in fact seems to be horrified that civilians are caught in the middle of this. Nowhere does she wants to free Gaza from Palestinians; just a known terrorist organization.
She’s not being anti-black or anti-brown, she’s not being anti-Palestinian, and she’s definitely not giving a thumbs up to war crimes or exulting in the death of ANYONE. She’s praying and supporting her country’s young people in a really awful, complex situation and she’s very clearly condemning a SPECIFIC organization instead of painting all Palestinians in any way.
The politics of the region are complex and obviously, there’s a lot of layers and conflicting information and feelings but like… someone saying ‘I love and am praying for people in a terrible conflict and want us to overcome it’ isn’t what a lot of people are making it out to be. Is she directing her concern in one direction? Somewhat, yeah. Can you object to the fact that she doesn’t outright say ‘I pray for Palestine’? Definitely. But there’s being more concerned for your own people and then there’s what people are making out she is and has said.
Like I said: dislike her or dislike Wonder Woman or have no interest in the DCEU, but the blatant exacerbation of this post and the additions people have made (about her being a sniper, etc) is just outright antisemitism, plain and simple.
This pisses me off because like you guys seriously don’t know how to separate anti-zionism from anti-semitism? Jewish people are not a hive mind, and there are Jews out there who are also highly critical of the state of Israel. I do disagree with spreading misinformation (like her being a sniper or the thing about the rifle), but frankly even the truth is disturbing for a lot of people. Being Israeli doesn’t mean that you are incapable of criticizing the IDF. Not wanting to support Gal Gadot because she promotes the IDF is not antisemitism. This is not about religion or ethnicity. And downplaying her views because her military service was mandatory and saying “oh well she probably doesn’t really agree with all that stuff” is frankly just projection, because all we know about her opinions on this matter are from this Facebook post. And according to this Facebook post, she supports Israel and the IDF, and she thinks that they “are right” (which is a very jarring statement imo).
For the record, I’m not trying to exaggerate anyone’s views here, and I don’t think that Gal Gadot is evil. But i also don’t want to downplay the reality of this mindset. I have an Israeli classmate who served in the military a year or two ago, and generally he’s a quiet and polite guy. But I have also heard him laugh and say, “There is no Palestine.” If that is anywhere close to the viewpoint that Gal Gadot has, then shes not the person I want for Wonder Woman, and she’s not somebody I want to support. And for god’s sake, it has absolutely nothing to do with her Jewish faith. That’s a shitty excuse to silence people who have real concerns and issues with what’s happening here.
The Justice League cast on the set of Batman v Superman
