r/israel in meltdown over Superman movie

Pretty soon even Schindler's List will be "anti-Semitic" for these people...

The whole “calling out Israel for genocide means you’re antisemitic” line is so worn out and honestly just exhausting, this post made me laugh!

My parents watch PBS Newshour and are very anti-Israel because of what they're doing to Palestine. One night, PBS ran a piece about how Israel's PR was labeling any criticism of Israel's action as "anti-semitism" and my folks were naturally incensed by this. The very next night, PBS ran a piece about the statistically increasing occurrence of anti-semitism in the world - without any discussion of just the possibility that much of that increase is due to criticisms of Israel being labeled as anti-semitism. My parents, of course, were then incensed about all the anti-semitism.

@IndustryStandard That shoe fits like it was made for him/them, by a cobbler of old. Interesting that he recognised the parallel so quickly.

"they're showing a country of mostly white people invading and brutalizing a defenseless country of brown people which is clearly about Israel-palestine"

c/selfawarewolves

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.
- They look pretty much the same in terms of skin tone. It’s not whites vs browns. They all just look Mediterranean
  Who? Israel's dominant sociopolitical group are Ashkenazi. They're white. Pretending it's Mediterraneans vs Mediterraneans is playing into the Israeli lie that Jewish people are the true native people in Canaan and everyone else is an outside invader. When in reality some Jews are native to the area, just as the Palestinians are. But certainly not the 20th century neocolonial supremacist state of Israel.

The "if you're criticizing Israel then you are an antisemitic" argument is getting really really old and fucking tired.

I have never in my life had any issues with anyone who is Jewish just because they are Jewish. Nor will I ever. But I have serious issues with the state of Israel committing war crimes on a daily basis and expecting not to be held accountable.

100%, fuck the country of Israel, the people leading the country, and the people hands on murdering civilians. Death to the IDF.
My Jewish friends never bought into it either.
- I've met many Jewish people. Who have spoken like Psycopaths about murdering Islamists and anyone they consider an "ENEMY" of Jewish people. Not all Jewish people are evil like this. But from my anecdotal experience. Jewish people support criminal organizations that steal from everyone with the Jewish Mafia being an unspoken evil arm of their operations.
  I question the intelligence of any person that believes in a religion. You're just telling me. You need fantasy stories to make you a good person. Which tells me that you're really a terrible person without your fake stories.

They're mad that they're identifying with the genocidal, colonizing villains of the story?

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

"If the shoe fits"... So maybe sit with your thoughts a bit longer to a logical conclusion instead of jumping to social media to dump your little thought vomit.

Absolutely agree! Why can't we have a show where a strong army wipes out a minority from the Earth with the rest of the world cheering?

What? That exists and is called "Fox News"??

Well, if the shoe fits.

at this point israel is just a country of vile rabid criminals. they know all the normal jewish people think of them as a stain on humanity and their religion but still cry antisemitism when they are exposed bombing children collecting water or sniping pregnant women.

rick and morty , family guy all have talked about palestine and israel in some form or another. dint see them whine about that. there were quite a few other shows discussing it.

Wait, I thought the Jews ran Hollywood and controlled all of the media? How is it possible a movie like this exists?

That's the radical left you're talking about
- Radical is when something I don't like happens.
  If only words had meanings and you could look up what those meanings were.
  I would LOVE It if even ONE 'radical' movie, TV show or video game ever came out. But it never will because Hollywood and Game companies are all Capitalists who only allow the mildest of critiques.

Just saw Superman a few minutes ago. I have pwned the libs by doing so.

Andor is just one such example of this.

This shit is why I joke that every work of fiction needs to end with the protagonist staring directly at the camera and explaining what the audience is supposed to take away from it, 1950's style, because people are too stupid for subtlety. Yes, yes, very clever to name the site of a genocide "G[horman Pl]aza," and have a character specifically emphasize the word "genocide" in a Senate chamber, but StrikeEagle784 sees all that and goes, "Wow, cool lasers" without understanding anything about anything.

Now, imagine if Andor ended with Cassian taking a seat and saying, "Hi, I'm Cassian Andor, and I hope you enjoyed the show. Were you moved by the plight of the Ghormans and inspired to fight the Empire? Well, just like how the Empire conducted a genocide against Ghorman, in real life, the US and Israel are committing genocide against the people of Gaza. That's actually the reason why that's in the show. Early on, I tried to turn a blind eye to injustice, but I found that ignoring the problem didn't make it go away. This is also true in real life. In summary, the genocide in Gaza is bad and you should do something about it."

Would that be stupid and annoying? Yes. But this is the level of art that we deserve. At least, it's the level of art that StrikeEagle784 deserves.

I don't want to be the "Um, ackshually" guy, because I could see how the events in Andor can draw parallels to modern day events going on, but that's more a byproduct of history endlessly repeating itself than any kind or profound political statement being made by the showrunners.
Case in point, the Ghorman Massacre was part of legends continuity long before the current snafu between Israel and Palastine became a politically charged topic and was loosely based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in India.
It is very telling that people are seeing something like Star Wars, which is well known for boiling down everything into binary good-versus-evil themes, and self-identifying with the bad guys because it resembles something their government has done recently.
- The Ghorman Massacre was even in the new continuity as of (at least) the 2017 Rebels episode Secret Cargo.
  And in Andor, the aesthetics were obviously drawing on the French Resistance in WWII.
  But this doesn't mean the parallels to Israel and Gaza were not there. The "history repeats" aspect might be part of it, but because this was the first time the Ghorman Massacre was portrayed on screen in current canon, they had considerable leeway in how they told the story, what events framed it, and what parallels they were trying to draw.
  There's a reason they chose to rewrite Mon Mothma's speech in the Senate from the one shown in Rebels, and that is that they wanted it to tell their message. They chose to frame it as a genocide that the overall population is wilfully ignoring. They chose to have disinformation campaigns coming from those in power which present the Ghormans not as the oppressed group of freedom fighters that they truly are, but as terrorists receiving aid from outside. They chose to show the Empire as willing to deliberately kill their own and have it blamed on the "terrorists". Heck, they chose to place it in a place specifically called, as @Objection@lemmy.ml notes, the Ghorman Plaza.
  Still, even if it is directly informed by the Gaza genocide itself, it's obviously not meant to be a perfect allegory. It's meant to be broadly applicable to all sorts of freedom fighting against oppressive authoritarian states.
  To quote the grandfather of the very genre in which Star Wars as a franchise sits:
  I much prefer history – true or feigned – with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
  La mort de l'auteur. The best literature can be applied to a wide variety of real-world situations, depending on what the audience's personal history is and which elements of the art they choose to concentrate on. So the Zionists look at the WWII French aesthetics and cling to that desperate to ignore the parallels to the crimes they themselves are complicit in. The most literate audience brings their own perspective, but also opens themselves up to hear other perspectives, and thus sees that there are multiple possible readings. The narrow-minded audience picks their interpretation and uses it as a reason to reject others.
  I would argue that Andor as a show is really a political thriller and science-fiction. But the core movies and most of the animated shows are fantasy.
Very well put. However, the last part is up to you and yours, not them. Exactly what you're doing with this comment, do it in real life, and have others do it too. Spread the word from inside out, because that's where the heart is. That's where REAL change happens, the people closest to you. Get THEM on board, and make them advocates. That's how we change.
Yes, yes, very clever to name the site of a genocide "Ghorman Pl]aza," and have a character specifically emphasize the word "genocide" in a Senate chamber […]
🤯 Holy shit that’s brilliant!
- Yes, Star Wars Rebels is so brilliant that they were referencing the Isreal-Hamas war in 2017.
  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Cargo
  Y'all are sounding like qanons with your numerology now.
So there's a planet famous for producing silk where peaceful protesters are massacred in a public square and you only think of Gaza? There is definitely no place on Earth like that other than Gaza!
I'm pretty sure the Israel Gaza war kicked off with terrorists masscring people in villages and taking hostages, but it wasn't the IDF doing that shit. Did Andor portray that at all?
I tried to find clips to see what it's referencing some more but holy shit that show is 90% pretentious speeches. But even then it's pretty obvious.
You are correct there are some people that need things spelled out for them or they don't understand it. Some even resort to Qanon style numerology to try to prove weird connections between things.
Anyway, which silk producing country massacred peaceful protesters in a public square? Come on.. .you can figure it out! Somewhere where vehicles were used to crush protesters? Maybe someone made a memorial and an authoritarian regime took it down... Hint
- So, I just finished writing a rather lengthy comment about why you're so obviously wrong to say it's not about Gaza.
  But I did also add that there are other equally valid possible interpretations because it's about applicability and metaphor, not direct allegory. Even so, I find your attempts here to compare it to China to be rather tenuous. The fact that the country produces "silk" and did a massacre is pretty much the only parallel. To me, the silk thing is more about adding to the obvious aesthetics of WWII French Resistance, with the silk thing tying in to France's famous connection to high fashion. I'd say the fact that Tiananmen Square was crushing an internal resistance, while on Ghorman, as well as in both WWII France and in Gaza it's outsiders seeking to invade and kill the locals, makes the Chinese connection especially weak.
- history started on October 7
  another dumbfuck
- Did Andor portray that at all?
  The empire depicting the Gorman resistance as evil terrorists who attacked unprovoked was indeed depicted in Andor.
- Israel Gaza war kicked off
  When great Britain partitioned off land and help kick out the population.
  Weird how that's also what happened in Andor...
  And of course the zionist is trying to deflect it to a different situation
- See, again, people like this are exactly why we need the protagonist to look directly at the camera and explain things to them. Because the average Westerner's worldview is so propagandized that when they see a work critiquing their own government, they assume that it must be about foreigners, because obviously we're number one and everyone else is worse than us. If you make a US allegory look bad, they assume it couldn't possibly be about the US. Combination of media illiteracy and a delusional, chauvinistic worldview.
  I’m pretty sure the Israel Gaza war kicked off with terrorists masscring people in villages and taking hostages, but it wasn’t the IDF doing that shit. Did Andor portray that at all?
  Well, the show kicks off with Andor shooting two corporate security guards, after they tried to rob him. Does that count? I mean, it's not like Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonization and apartheid is unprovoked.
  Anyway, which silk producing country massacred peaceful protesters in a public square?
  The silk producing planet did not massacre peaceful protesters in a public square. The Empire, an occupying force in Ghorman, massacred Ghormans. I guess if Ghormans had massacred Imperials, your China comparison might make a certain amount of sense. But that's the complete opposite of what happened in the show, where the "silk producing planet" was the victim of genocide, not the perpetrator.
  Incidentally, Gaza is also famous for textiles, or at least, it was, before the dark times. Before the Empire.
  Next you're going to tell me that the original trilogy wasn't about the Vietnam War

Oh I guess I'm going to see the new Superman now.

Plot twist: it's all a marketing scheme to get you to watch another shitty comic book movie.
- DC needs its moment, though. There are so many good characters to explore.

That being said. Free palestine ♡

This complaint is such an admission. They can't point to a single similarly between Israel and the bad guys in the movie except, "nation with technology advanced weaponry being deployed against unarmed civilians," and they're not even disputing that that's an accurate depiction of what's happening. It's not like they're saying, "this movie parallels Hamas propaganda." They're saying, "depicting colonial genocide negatively is anti-Israel."

Are Zionists (not the general Jewish population of the world) the biggest mass murdering babies in human civilization now adays?

Almost certainly

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

Well, if the shoe fits.

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

you call them PRO-PALIS? does that mean youre ANTI-PALESTINE?? KIND OF A WEIRD THING TO SAY

"we're seeing similarities between us and fictional villains and we don't like it"

Reddit has been actively alienating users who despise fascism, so these pro-fash topical whinges are only going to grow more echo-chambery

100% true. Banned because I said all Nazis need to be punched or put in the ground.....Nazis.....
Fuck Reddit.
- Plenty of mods here on Lemmy who'll do the same...
  Mainly on your home instance, too.

If you see yourself in the bad guys actions, maybe do something else...

Yes it is totally Hollywood making Israel look bad, not the shooting caged brown people part.

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

Its crazy how they know it is about israel and they still support israel

What kind of Brainwashing is that

Maybe if you didn't colonize the land of brown people you would see no parallelism between the two. Hypocrites.

attacking a defenseless neighboring people

They’re so close to figuring it out

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....

It’s not our fault your state became so evil they are interchangeable with cartoon villains.

All this whining about that movie makes me want to see it more and more. If this is intentional, it will be remembered as the best marketing campaign in history.

the movie is ok.
fun watch, nothing too ground breaking.
This is the right take. Well put.

I see where Trump got his name calling ideas from.
- All of "his" ideas.
Sealing wax, wow sick burn...
- …if used carelessly.
Oh wow. I didn't know he was controversial from the start.
- Does Nazis not liking something really make it controversial?

Hmm, sounds based, might actually watch it. I highly doubt the movie is anti-semitic but if it turns out to be I'll be disappointed of course.

Watch out everyone. LEMMY Admins and Mods will ban you from the Fed for talking shit on Israel. Zionists have spread their evil tenticles through this website and clean up any negative speech against the evil side of the Jewish religion. Zionists should be treated like the terrorists they are. Keep an eye out for deleted comments.

Yiu should get of .world, they are one of the pro Israel instances.
- Oh damn. Good to know.
Everyone on this site is anti-zionist. Tankies do not support israel
- A few Zionist stragglers exist, but they almost invariably get downvoted to oblivion.
- That's not true. I get comments deleted for saying Anti-Zionist comments all over the Feds. From /FuckCars to /Movies. I had my first account deleted by the Futurology Fed for being to controversial about Zionists. I used to work for a Jewish family that was a part of the Jewish and Italian mob. I watched my boss fly to Israel for drug rehab and the dude took like 300 Ecstacy pills with him on a private jet to get through the rehab. That same dude thought I was an undercover cop. Though I never said shit when I found him face first into a massive pile of cocaine.

Someone have context if we haven’t seen the new superman?

Also I want to scream a million times. 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.

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.
- Politicians love to do this.
  Fuck, anyone with an agenda anymore!
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.
- Off topic question but is the country really Barovia? That’s a hilarious nod to Dungeons and dragons if so
- I mean, what else could it be? Stalwart American ally coded white with advanced weaponry attacking mostly defenceless brown neighbors without cause and with the intention of occupation and annexation. Their weaponry is mostly from America. The cherry on top, they would scede some of the land to an American billionaire.
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.
- “Superman has somehow become the focal point of the entire world’s attention and I cannot accept that.”
  Damn, Lex Luther is even more an Elon Musk type in this movie huh?
- I can’t actually watch videos especially trailer types with lots of movement due to a disability. So was wondering if anyone had a text based interpretation.
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.
- If you are not a Zionist, Israel<>Zionism<>Judaism.
  Zionist, Israel=/=Zionism=/=Judaism.
  FTFY
You should see the definitions and examples of antisemitism the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
That's what they've been pushing.

Woke is tolerance, empathy, and a desire for the betterment of all at the expense of none (from the best of my observations studying conservative media). These are all the things the Israeli state leadership and a disturbing plurality of Israeli citizens and zionists around the world ideologically oppose because addressing those tenets challenges their ability to justify genocide. Imperial Ethno-states cannot be woke, by definition, even if they dress themselves in the imagery and rhetoric of tolerance (the must Humane Army shit). So yeah, of course they're gonna shit their pants over this 'woke' messaging in media, cause they desperately need to control the narrative of their crimes in Gaza. My sympathy to the horrifically oppressed there, and the Jewish people both in Israel and abroad who rightly and justly oppose the violence. May the Netanyahu criminal regime collapse as soon as possible.

Wow, it's actually amazing how far they can combine self-awareness and denial so effortlessly.

1984's doublethink

I mean the glass shoe does fit, soooooo...

"How dare you, I've never been described so accurately!"

Self-awareness is tapping them on the shoulder but they refuse to turn around.

Superman ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter novels.

John Carter was from Virginia but was transported to Mars where he exhibited super strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Siegalman and Shuster reversed the premise and had an alien come to earth with...great strength and great leaping ability due to the lower gravity. Flying came later. Nothing about Moshe.

they made martian manhunter, a shoehorn for that.
It's a shame that (a) Disney got the film rights to that series and (b) they fucked it up so hard that even when the Rice Borroughs foundation got the rights back, no one else is trying to do a better movie adaptation.
- I actually enjoyed that movie. I went in with zero expectations though, so that probably helped.
Reminds me of a girl I went out with many years ago, she dead serious said that Superman was the antichrist, because people ask for his help instead of God or Jesus, people praise him and see him performing fake miracles, the red cape is an allegory to Jesus' shroud, he died and resurrected a number of times, plus other things.
- How many ‘dang, that’s crazy’s did you have to pull out?
They probably mean the orphan aspect since both Moses and Supes were orphans.
- Yeah, but then you can point out that the 'super powered/divinely blessed, abandoned child/orphan' trope goes back waaaaay farther than when the myth of Moses originated.
  ...
  Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, is made into an orphan when Seth (Set?) kills Osiris, Isis goes off for I think years to find Osiris' body parts to be able to do a necromancy spell, Horus spends a lot of time on his own, but eventually grows up and avenges his father.
  EDIT: (so, ok, this one in particular is ... variable, because it is so old and there are many variants of it. sometimes Horus is alive before Osiris is killed, sometimes he is born after Osiris is resurrected, sometimes he spends a while alone, sometimes he doesn't, sometimes it isn't clear, he avenges the death of Osiris in different ways, etc)
  Herakles, son of Zeus, orphaned demi god who is a social outcast for his freakish strength and rage, who accidentally maims and kills people ... eventually grows into a heroic and beloved figure for his ability to solve problems no one else can.
  Ion (from Euripedes), a bastard son result of Apollo raping the daughter of a King, left in a basket in the wilderness, expected to die, but is guided by Hermes, goes through many trials and tribulations, eventually ends up with Athena declaring him the rightful king and founder of Athens.
  Enkidu, a beast-man created by the Sumerian gods, abandoned to the wilderness, whose astounding physical strength proves to be the only existing match for the 1/3 divine 2/3 human tyrant Gilgamesh, who then befriend each other and go a'questing, slaying terrible monsters, seeking magical treasures... which has the neat bonus effect of 'now Gilgamesh is away from his realm, so he is no longer raping every woman or girl he fancies.'
  Sargon the Great, Sargon of Akkad, seems to have actually been an orphan in reality, but was greatly deified by the Sumerian religion of the time.
  ...
  I am fairly confident all of these stories temporally preceed the story of Moses, and there are a good number of ancient near east literature scholars who believe at least some of these stories were drawn on by whoever originally wrote the Exodus story.
- I'd agree with that. Basket in rushes vs capsule in the cornfield. But it's a weak linkage given that the abandoned orphan is a trope older than the bible.

Hollywood has fallen!

Were the attackers predominantly white? I only remember tanks and soldiers that seemed covered up.

Yes, they were stand-ins for a fictional Eastern European/Russian country.

well... if the shoe fits...

how many working nuerons does this cumsocket have in his brain?
No one is "pro-Palestinians" neither anti-Judaism.
Believe me there are horrific evil palestinians who would genocide their own families for money, and zionism is noy judaism; The worst of the worst Zionists are Evangelical Christian not even Jewish.

The hypocrisy gets rediculious once you start naming things for what they are:

Are these people allowed to besiege, starve, decapitate kids, rape doctors and hostages to death, colonize, genocide humans like they're animals and then get the world support? Okay then just support Putin to colonize Ukraine, and help China colonize Taiwan and oppress its people. They should also give ISIS the right to exist and right to displace and kill anyone for their land. Why can't these muslim extremists have safe heaven country to practic their beliefs of Sharia law? ISIS literally invited all extremists fleeing prosection from all over the world and granted them settler land and dual citizenship just like Israel. Why were they not allowed to kidnap rape the Yazidis to death? Why can't they colonize Syira and Iraq and genocide all other ethnicities and minorities there to have a country for themselves only? It was also written in their book and promised to them by god himself to establish a Khaliphaite Sharia state for all extremists to practice their god given rights to take land from its natives, colonize them, besiege them, maim and amuptate their kids and kidnape and rape their people to death.

Superman movie has only real country mentioned, the USA. Superman serving US, always right, supremacism is normalized. Superman making sure America never faces repercussions for its policies. If anything, US support for Israel is glamorized, because if it were evil, a US superman (or the justice gang, if Superman distracted) would come to prevent it.

Superman serving US, always right, supremacism is normalized.
The controversy from the start of the movie is due to Superman acting to stop an invasion without US involvement or consent. And the US eventually hires Lex's team to arrest him after the Intel Lex gathers about his originally intended purpose on Earth comes out. He's specifically not an agent of the US, explicitly or implicitly.
Superman making sure America never faces repercussions for its policies.
He doesn't "make sure" Ameica faces no consequences, but it is true that he doesn't hold them accoutnablr, with a caveat here. He didn't solve the problem by following it to its source and really fix the problem. His naivete in just stopping the invasion of his own accord, threatening the Barovian president, and then calling it a day like it was all fix, was a plot point and a critique against him in the movie, and one that proved to be valid. They could very well have taken it up the ladder and found the US was complicit (along with Lex) and Superman could have taken action against them, but they didnt. My suspicion, though, is that the US government as an obstacle or adversary for Supes and other heroes will evolve in this new DC Universe as it continues. The council that Luthor spoke to is still preparing to take on Superman and other metas. That is the point of the Suicide Squad, after all.
If anything, US support for Israel is glamorized, because if it were evil, a US superman (or the justice gang, if Superman distracted) would come to prevent it.
I don't follow you here. Supes and the Justice Gang prevent both invasion attempts by Barovia. No they don't take on the US itself (in this movie), but I don't see how that glamorizes the relationship with the Isreal-like analogy. Also, in the movie the weapons of war supplied to Barovia are also supplied primarily by Luthorcorp, specifically, not the US. It's not a 1 to 1 reflection of real life.
- Superman is American empire. He has a distracting debate with Lois about the supremacy of Superman, but Superman decides he has supremacy in the end. The only case for Borovia being Israel instead of Serbia (in 90s) is that it has the US arms exporters (whether US State Dept is official conduit or not, US is not forbidding them) control Boravia. Russian like language in eastern Europe opressing muslims makes other case. The Superman = American empire propaganda is that the conflict is clear simplistic evil invading innocent good, and America/Superman "doing good after exploring all other alternatives." in imposing its will while US is free of all repercussions due to Superman's protection.
Or at least that is what Putin wants spread.