The media coverage of the Snow White remake starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler showed how Hollywood and the corporate media serve as extensions of wider political and ideological conflicts—including efforts to silence support for Palestine.

Marvel Studios announced that little-known Israeli superheroine Sabra will join the next installment of its Captain America movie series. The character – Israeli police officer by day, super-powered Mossad agent by night – is a quintessential reflection of the Israeli apartheid system.

Jonathan Cook finds contemporary parallels to interventionist wars in the hit film ‘Wonder Woman’: “this much-praised Gal Gadot vehicle–seemingly about a peace-loving superhero, Wonder Woman, from the DC Comics stable–is actually carefully purposed propaganda designed to force-feed aggressive western military intervention, dressed up as humanitarianism, to unsuspecting audiences.”

Jaime Omar Yassin’s questions the celebration of Gal Gadot, not as Wonder Woman, but as a feminist radical icon, “Don’t get me wrong, I’m uncomfortable even suggesting that women—and especially Black women and men—should have to interrogate their heroes in those rare moments when a Black or female superhero makes it on to screen. I am not trying to establish a checklist that has to be satisfied before you can enjoy a race or gender champion brought to the silver screen. But I think a larger question centers around Zionism’s compatibility with both feminism and Black empowerment. This is a question that is, unfortunately, much more frequently brought up by Zionists who also identify as leftists, who seek to marginalize Pro-Palestinian positions as the square peg in a discourse of liberation.”