Superman and the Quest for Cultural Erasure

Superman and the Quest for Cultural Erasure

Guy Ginton
Antisemitism, Culture,

1a. Jew Haters Hijacked Something New: Comics

The idea that James Gunn's 2025 Superman film is a veiled critique of Israel is not only false but easily disproven by the production timeline, setting, and explicit statements from the director himself.

In Gunn’s own words: “It doesn’t have anything to do with the Middle East.”

End of story.

1b. Unnecessary Additional Evidence

You'd think that James Gunn saying “It doesn’t have anything to do with the Middle East” would be enough evidence that the movie has nothing to do with Israel, a place in the Middle East. Well, you might think that if you haven’t heard the claims from Jew obsessed freaks that everything is about Gaza, especially everything they were accused of. As you’ll see in section 4, there is never enough evidence for those who believe Jews are guilty, especially USAmericans, Brits and Australians with serious guilt about themselves living on stolen land, their own gov, who are desperate for a scapegoat they can be distanced from.

I will lay out facts, knowing full well that the Free Palestine people will continue to lie.

Gunn began writing the film in August 2022, a full 14 months before October 7, 2023. By Dec 2022, he publicly confirmed he was working on the script. By April 2023, production design, costume design, and casting were underway. The film’s direction was locked well before war reignited between Israel and various Islamist factions—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Islamist regime occupying Iran and their proxies.

Any claim that the Gaza war shaped the movie is factually impossible. The script was finished by May 2023. Filming was delayed by the WGA strike, not by demands to insert Free Palestine propaganda. A table read was held in February 2024. Every detail was finalized before Oct 7, 2023—the day Hamas and their Palestinian civilian accomplices stormed a music festival to rape and murder unarmed music lovers, an act that some call “resistance.”

Well before the movie came out, lies poured in about it. A particularly cynical falsehood came from Bassem Youssef, who claimed he was cast in the film and cut for criticizing Israel. Gunn personally refuted this. Youssef was never officially cast. The character was removed before Youssef’s Oct 7 comments were even made. We don’t even know what kind of role it was — heroic, villainous, neutral? Doesn’t matter. What we do know is Youssef continues earning poser fans by “grifting for Palestine,” while never addressing that he was banned from Egypt for blasphemy. Like the people I’ll show later, Youssef only has room in his heart for criticizing the one Jewish country. Youssef, today a glorified comedian, endlessly criticizes Israel for taking US aid and in return giving IP that fuels endless fortune 500 companies, but is baffled and offended when people ask why Egypt is the second largest recipient of US aid, and, in return, gives nothing to US.

I want to be clear, I know many Palestinians less obsessed with the Free Palestine rhetoric than cult members like Youssef or the people shown below. Normal people have other interests.

The film takes place in Boravia, a fictional Eastern European country with Russian-speaking leaders and onion domes. It’s clearly meant to evoke Russia and post-Soviet states — not Israel. The invasion of Jarhanpur mimics Russian aggression in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states.

Do you remember Ukraine? Maybe not. Palestine Supporters have worked overtime to erase it. More on that in Section 2.

The fact that the movie was written before Oct 7, 2023, set in Eastern Europe, and disavowed by Gunn as being related to the Middle East hasn’t stopped bad-faith actors from smearing it as ‘being about Israel.’ Tweets and endless social media comments claim it was updated to target Israel, but no facts back this up. These falsehoods depend on audiences being too angry and too lazy to check the timeline.

The people who hate on Jews are really good at dominating the internet. They dominate social media, especially 4Chan, Twitter/X, TikTok and other places where brain rot material thrive. It does not mean that they are right or basing their takes on fact.

There are random tweets from anime avatars and social justice warriors ranting about the Jews… I mean Zionist Jews... are boycotting the movie. Where do I start with this absurd claim, spread thousands of times? It’s just so stupid.

First, the movie came out a week earlier in Israel than in the US. I do not remember any other movie that did that. Why? Because the movie stars a Jewish actor playing Superman. It was subsequently sold out in Israel, not boycotted. Second, I have not heard a single credible resource mention a Jewish boycott of this movie. I have seen lunatics insist on it, but no credible resources, no friends or family, nobody except internet commentators who chant “zionism is not judaism” each day, hoping they themselves will one day believe it.

Finally, Jews are not really known for having our equivalent of BDS or announcing mass boycotts. In fact, we financially support our haters. As many have joked, Jews and Israel provide the medicine that keeps our haters alive, the tech and social media that keeps their hate flowing, and the movies (like Superman) they get to insist is rEaLlY aBoUt jEwS. FFS, you hear people listening to Kanye in Israel.

We are not as thin skinned as our haters. We have strong knees. Well, most of us.

It’s no surprise that The Forward is helping spread this bizarro narrative. Once a respected Jewish outlet, it’s now the Candace Cohens of Jewish journalism, blaming Jews for everything except maybe the plague. When a Holocaust survivor was firebombed in Boulder, they found it appropriate to ask if Jews and Israel may be responsible. Their editorial line might as well be: “We deserve it.”

So of course they’re boosting tweets that claim Superman is an allegory for Israeli apartheid. These self-hating Jews aren’t representing our community. They’re aligning with mobs who claim Jews orchestrate their own oppression, even in stories that showcase the opposite. The only thing you will not find is evidence for their claims. Or James Gunn agreeing with them that the movie has to do with Israel.

Ironically, that’s the actual allegory of Superman: assimilate or die. For the people who insist Jews should live everywhere but their homeland, or tabloids like Mixmag that insist Jewish symbols are offensive, the message of ‘assimilate or die’ is uncomfortable. For those who assimilate into any cause their community tells them to join, a message of ‘assimilation bad’ is uncomfortable.

If you believe anything I wrote above is objectively wrong, break out your chants and hashtags, ye conformist!

2. Erasure

Since Oct 7, 2023 (Putin’s birthday) Ukraine protests have evaporated. No more blue-and-yellow flags, no mass vigils, no urgent cries for Russian withdrawal. Putin got a convenient distraction, an eternal scapegoat. And you may have noticed a lot of “Let’s fund Ukraine” folk flopped to “No foreign investment, because then Israel might use it to defend itself!”

Ukraine isn’t fine. If you’re watching some or all 105 active conflicts worldwide, you’d know that. Ukraine has seen 20x the Gaza death toll, eight million more displaced, and widespread devastation, even if you use the random numbers Free Palestine supporters report, by way of the Hamas ran Ministry of Health. And yet Gaza is all that matters to a certain crowd—the same ones silent on Congo, Myanmar, Sudan, Ethiopia, and now the murder of Christians and Druze in Syria.

Why always Israel? What makes Gaza’s tragedy so compelling compared to Ukraine’s or Georgia’s? Why are Ukranians encouraged to leave a war zone and get aid wherever they can, while Gaza is told to become martyrs? If it’s not the fact that Jews are involved, explain this disproportionate focus.

Predicting the “Free Palestine” cult would appropriate a Jewish comic about erasure and claim it as their own, I raised the topic of erasure in a recent Instagram post. I mentioned that comics (and Hollywood) started with Jewish disenfranchisement. I could have gone on to discuss the Moses narrative in Superman, or discussed Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Will Eisner, Brian Michael Bendis, Daniel Clowes, Max Gaines and William Gaines, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Harvey Kurtzman, Harvey Pekar, Art Spiegelman, and Ralph Bakshi. But I’ll give credit to the Free Palestine cult for dominating online discourse by staying hyperfocused on one topic: Their desperate need to erase our history and depict Jews as blood thirsty creatures.

Long-winded explanations don’t land as well as catchy chants about Superman being anti-Israel. Unfortunately, while Jewish advocates were doing their research, waiting to watch the movie, our haters moved fast to make the narrative about them and spread deliberate lies about Jews boycotting the movie. It never mattered to them that the Superman movie premiered in Israel a full week before the U.S. and Jewish fans cheered the return of a Jewish-created icon.

To recap my post, Superman was created by two Jewish teenagers, immigrants to the U.S. He was conceived as an alien refugee trying to fit into American life, doing good in a world that sees him as an outsider. Gunn’s version echoes this legacy. He emphasizes that the story is about basic human kindness—a notion completely at odds with the cruelty pouring from Free Palestine cult members. Again, just look at how these “Free Palestine” people talk about “Zionists” nonstop, any chance they get.

From the moment the 2023 war broke out, activists tried to hijack Superman. Why? Because they weren’t interested in Gaza’s future. They were interested in Jewish erasure.

And they’ve succeeded. The dominant narrative around Superman isn’t Ukraine and post-Soviet states, kindness, or assimilation. It’s about whether the movie is about Jews murdering people out of blood lust. It’s about blaming Jews for atrocities they didn’t commit. You can scroll through hours of anti-Israel content tied to the new Superman movie—but you’ll rarely find anyone fundraising for Gaza, demanding Hamas surrender, or calling for the hostages’ return. It’s not about helping Gaza, it’s about screaming Jews are not victims.

What you will find in the Free Palestine content is chants of intifada, calls for martyrdom, and demands that Jewish creators stop telling Jewish stories. You find the antithesis of Superman values. You find conspiracies and hate, not facts.

This was never about solidarity. It’s bigotry in protest drag. And when a Jewish story about kindness reaches mainstream success, the reflex of many is to slander it, twist it, and destroy it.

Major “Free Palestine” vibes in his comments

3. LinkedIn “Free Palestine” Championing Hitler… Bc Superman

For those new to my blog, my belief is that bigotry does not exist because of the leaders profiting on it, but rather the people who flock to these hateful leaders. It is easy to attribute the Shoa to Hitler, but it undermines placing blame on the 40% or so of Eastern Europe (and large pargent of US) that supported Hitler and his policies. These people did not disappear.

I’ll start with LinkedIn, the social media network for professionalism (lol). And to be fair, you’re far less likely to see conversations about a comic book movie on LinkedIn than on Facebook or Instagram, unless your network includes these Jew obsessed individuals. So I’m sticking to one single post by Ibrahim Asaad (Staff Engineer at Dolby Laboratories) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibrahimasaad) from three days ago.

Note how it says “killing of six million Jewish men” and not “the consequences of the war that Palestinians started”.

Ibrahim Asaad post reads, “The human mind will never comprehend how the victims of a past genocide commit a worse genocide on innocent people. The Gaza holocaust will always be remembered by all of humanity.” (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7352402270061318145/ ) Note the repeated use of the word Holocaust, a distinct word coined for the genocide of Jews, because, again, the focus is Jewish erasure. He calls Gaza a “worse genocide” too, presumably implying that the people of Gaza are more important than the people he was later refer to as ‘fake Jews.’

This post features an image claiming, “Israelis are boycotting the new Superman movie after it shows Superman as anti-genocide (BRICS News)”. I’ve already mentioned this: No, we are not. It came out in Israel before the US. It was sold out. Jews love Jewish comics. The repeated claim is sourcing a bad source, a Russian social media channel, with clear intent of deflecitng from post-Soviet Ukraine.

This Free Palestine tactic is simple: If Jews respond to the post with “No, we are not boycotting this movie” the rebuttal is “So you support the genocide” or “So you admit it’s happening.” The comments begin with that premise, attributing guilt where there is none. They prevent any conversation about the comic being a story of Jewish erasure, by keeping the focus on their very own present day attempts to erase Jews. Jews, we are told, are not allowed to defend themselves when being attacked by the “innocent people.”

Ibrahim’s post includes two separate comments evoking direct support for Hitler. These comments are now 3+ days old, neither removed by OP or LinkedIn:

“Yudi I E 3d Hitlerr said.. I left a little for you to taste…” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudi-i-e-0aa632149). This comment was liked by “Rizwan H. (CRISC | CISM | Risk Management I Asset Management)” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABr4kdcB--ZDxlKRourq9XEbGwDUQzR9FM4/).

“R. H. R. (Hunter-Killer "Trusted Advisor" Sales Artisan conceives/executes strategic rooting…) (edited) 3d HEEBRUWS🇮🇱 R🇮🇱 EV1L🇮🇱FORCED 🇮🇱H1TTLER🇮🇱 2 TAKE ACTION” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-nyc/) Rose HR, a very staunch Free Palestine member, has a profile littered with 9/11 Truther-ism. Her emoji filled comment is Free Palestine speak for, “Jews are evil and forced Hitler to take action.” Rose did the cardinal sin of calling Jews “Hebrews” instead of “Zionist Jews,” as Ibrahim repeatedly calls us. Narghiza E. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rizwan365/) liked RHR’s comment.

Ibrahim did respond to this comment about ‘hitler being forced to take action’…. with even more Holocaust inversion and false history, “you are justifying the current holocaust in Gaza. When innocent Jews were being slaughtered in Europe, Palestinians gave Jewish refugees safety and security and rightly so. Keep in mind, Palestinians are the true descendants of the early Hebrews. those who came from Europe have nothing to do with the early Hebrews, they are simply Western invaders.” Once again, the focus is Jewish erasure and lies that Arabs were victims who welcomed Jews. Note the irony: In one single paragraph, Ibrahim Asaad claims that Palestinians are the real Jews (Jewish erasure) and Palestinians helped the fake Jews, who were really Western invaders (a clear contradiction).

No other criticism was made of either comment glorifying Hitler. In response to “RHR”s comment Nizar SIDAOUI (Actuaire Senior | Data science, Finance) wrote, “(edited) 3d R. H. R. Hitler Was financed by your guys Rotchild Rockfeller …” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nizar-sidaoui-11907a276/) Again, I’ll translate Free Palestine speak: Nizar Sidaoui is alluding to the ZOG conspiracy theories of Jews controlling the banks (even though Rockefeller isn’t Jewish). Nimra Farooqui (Customer Services Representative) wrote, “R. H. R. Then why don't you go and take genocide against the Germans?? Cuz Hitler was a Nazi German and you're taking out your frustration on the Palestinians.” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimra-farooqui-09701319a/) I’ve read a lot of lunatic Free Palestine Supporter comments, but this one is hard to decipher aside from ‘something, something, Palestine is all that matters.’

Not that it matters to people ranting about ‘real Hebrews’ and ‘Western invaders’ but Hitler was Austrian, not German. And I haven’t a clue how the majority of Israel are “Western” when they come from MENA states, including the Arab states that expelled their Jews.

Both comments evoking support for Hitler are from people in Ibrahim’s network. There are praised as ‘antizionism not antisemitism.’ Rather than focus on these blatantly Nazi-allied comments, Ibrahim’s network piled onto the Holocaust inversion, attacking any Jew who accused them of malicious blood libel.

There were claims Jews are not real victims, and subtle Holocaust denial, like, Ahmed Anwer, BSC, MBA (Management, Industrial Packaging and filling…) 1d, “It doesn't need to, because they were never the victims they claimed to be, what we see right now is more than enough proof that it was all a lie.” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-anwer-bsc-mba-8b454050/)

There were the usual vague death threats like, “Fawwaz Talal (Founder @ Amzaan Business Solutions) 3d, “… believe you will be accountable for that once zionism project is totally collapsed. Enjoy your time now.” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatalal/)

OP himself chimed in a few more times. Ibrahim Asaad (Staff Engineer at Dolby Laboratories) 3d, “… The Arab body had been infected with cancer before and it was cured. 500 million Arabs and 2 billion Muslims are going no where but to free Palestine.”

For the dangerously unaware, Hitler repeatedly referred to Jews as cancer and cancerous growths, before later adopting the terms “parasite” and “rats.” Ibrahim is evoking Nazi rhetoric, while pretending to care about the Holocaust, while insisting that the Holocaust victims were ‘fake Jews.’ I don’t want to misattribute what he means by saying Arabs were ‘infected by cancer before,’ so I have sent him this article for comment. My guess it is it’s about Khaybar, a favorite chant of the Free Palestine supporters. I do like how he uses ‘free Palestine’ as a verb, really illuminating to the non-believers that it means ‘dealing with the cancerous Jews.’

Ibrahim continues this unhinged rant by spelling out that he blames Zionist Jews—not Zionist Christians, Muslims or atheists— Zionist Jews alone. I wonder why [/s]/ Ibrahim writes, “Those who deny the Gaza holocaust which the worst genocide in human existence, they also retroactively deny all the past genocides. Shame on you [Jewish person] for denying the slaughter of 6 million Jews at the hands of Germans, and 100s of thousands of Palestinians at the hands of Zionist Jews.” Another note, ‘1000s of thousands of Palestinians’ is casually thrown out as being more important than 6 million Jews. The death toll from the war is estimated currently at 50K, mostly combatants.

Ibrahim later continues this thread with even more desperate Holocaust inversion, “the early Hebrews didn't have blue eyes and blond hair.“ I will suggest that he once again is suggesting that Jews are not Jews, they’re the caricature of Aryans he hopes you share. In his final incoherent, ‘this is clearly about erasing jews’ response, Ibrahim writes, “Islam saved Judaism from disappearing when Muslims conquered Palestine.” WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??? He continues his bizarre, ahistorical delusion, “Muslims protected Jews for 1400 years until the British destroyed their relationship. History will remember the israeli-cause in one sentence ‘it started with Palestinian Nakbah and ended in an israeli Nakbah. Free Free Palestine”.

An eye for an eye is an understatement with these lunatics. But again, to keep the focus, the point of all this rhetoric is erasure. Virtually all ethnic minorities in the Arab states were violently wiped out, except pockets of Christians, Druze and Jews. Their stories were erased. And the response from the Free Palestine cult is to pretend that they were peacefully conquered and all willingly converted. It’s BS, and deep down, Ibrahim knows it is BS.

Virtually every other ‘antizionist not antisemite’ comment is littered with Holocaust denial, (un)execptionalism and dog whistles:

For those who don’t know what to say, there are the go-to chants and child-like name calling:

Oh, and it all stays real professional!

  • Hisham Rabadi (I bring ideas to life) 2d, “Meanwhile, Superman movie is on its way to make a billion in the box office 🤷🏽. I guess nobody gives a flying fuck what Israhell thinks.” (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishamrabadi/)

Of course, the cult’s one joke was used too:

I have a whole article coming on the topic of “their one joke” coming next. I mean really, how many times can people publicly laugh about our religion being 2k, 3k or 6m years old before people wake up and say, “OK, maybe this is just antisemitism.” Stay tuned!

Section 4: Assorted More Examples

Due to time constraints, I’ll be adding most of my screenshots and commentary later—so check back soon. And yes, they’re already saved on my computer, so don’t waste your breath asking me not to include them.

For now, here’s one worth previewing. It comes from a Christian woman named Ashley Westover who repeatedly insisted to me that criticizing Israelis for adopting a baby is “antizionism, not antisemitism.” Ah yes, the ancient Zionist crime of… adoption.

It didn’t matter to Ashley or the group mods that no fewer than five Jewish commenters explained the post was antisemitic, not “just criticism of Israel.” Or that we reported it to the mods. Like so many others, she’s emboldened by the constant goysplaining and excuse-making from Nazi apologists posing as activists.

This particular exchange happened in a random Facebook group called “a group where someone will explain the joke for you if you don't get it,” moderated by Banner Beuer, Dori Mc, Forest Ogan, Valerie Rofeberg, Jacob Tanner, Caleb Musselman, Zofi Slezak, Zach Riley-Glassman, and Emilie-Anne Nichols. They’re all complicit in this BS masquerading as Palestine Support, without any real support.

The post itself, like many others, features seemingly benign content—with dog whistles about Jews being “promised 6 million years ago”—only for people like Ashley Westover to twist it into an unhinged accusation that “Zio Jews” are bloodthirsty baby killers and Palestinians are simply resisting the blood thirsty Zionist Jews.

Stay tuned for the next installment, where we’ll see just how low the “antizionist, not antisemitic” crowd will go to defend their bigotry.


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