Iron Dome - Defender of Israel

EXCERPT

It is widely acknowledged that the Golden Age of comic books was pioneered by Jewish Americans which included the likes of DC’s Superman by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster or Marvel’s legendary writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby who were behind some of the most enduring, iconic superhero characters to date; Spiderman, Captain America and the Hulk to name but a few.

Amid the rise of Fascism in Europe and the Second World War, many of the superheroes became metaphors of the Jewish experience facing anti-Semitism and the Holocaust with characters having to live with dual or hidden identities in order to assimilate in a society that would otherwise shun them, as with the X-Men.

Although described as secular, Stan Lee is quoted as having once stated: “To me, you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, ‘Do not do unto others…’ All I tried to do in my stories was to show that there’s some innate goodness in the human condition. And there’s always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.”

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However, given the global backlash against Israel’s military attacks against Gaza and its colonial policies in occupied-East Jerusalem and the West Bank, this PR stunt also appears to have failed amid widespread ridicule by other users.

Such was the online fallout, that it’s safe to say that Iron Dome got “ratioed”. This is when replies to a tweet vastly outnumber likes or retweets, generally indicative that people are objecting to the tweet’s content.

Source:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210601-israel-superhero-gets-ratioed-by-captain-palestine/