I still remember all the hype and excitement surrounding the release of the new Wonder Woman movie starring none other than Gal Gadot back in 2017, and then once again back in the cursed year of 2020. And now, I have the pleasure of relieving the hype one more time hopefully for the new release in 2022. It was a much-anticipated film and the promotion leading up to the first screening was all around me - on social media, on billboards, on posters, and on merchandise. The continuous, over the top marketing has continued to carry on throughout the franchise. But back to 2017: Wonder Woman had been a popular DC comic and people were finally getting a movie from it. I still remember the conversations surrounding the movie and what its release meant for young girls. Hollywood was being praised for finally giving a superhero lead to a woman, and how much feminism has progressed in Hollywood and in broader society. Among the loud buzz of excitement and cheer there was a small voice that could only be heard by those who took a step back and looked at the reality behind the materialist mask. That small voice was the voice of Palestine. To put it very bluntly, Gal Gadot is a Zionist. She was/is a settler colonialist in the occupied
Palestine, and she is a proud member of the notorious Israeli Defence Force. The IDF is a fascist, war-mongering criminal, terrorist organisation that upholds and enables apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing and the brutal Zionist occupation. She participated in the 2006 Lebanon war - a war responsible for the death of 1.5 thousand Lebanese civilians and immense damage to Lebanese infrastructure. In 2014 Israel launched a 50-day attack on Gaza that resulted in the massacre of 2.5 thousand Palestinians by bombing schools, hospitals, libraries, markets, beaches and houses etc. Gal Gadot being very well aware of the slaughter happening by the IDF, decided to cheerlead them for it. Despite absolutely no evidence of her tale being true, she wrote, “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 #coexistance #loveidf” It’s not just the blatant crimes against humanity that IDF is responsible for, but their ongoing
Words by Habibah Jaghoori
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