White Savior Cinema

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Read EP delegate Rebecca P.’s interview with Palestinian German filmmaker Lexi Alexander about the anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism behind Wonder Woman: 1984: “When you know about Palestine, or you are Palestinian, you are very sensitive to something like the scene with the four boys. People do not know Arabs as anything other than oil sheiks who have harems, or as terrorists, or in the rare “woke” cases, people who get to help the CIA. That’s why, in the real world, it’s so easy to kill four boys from the same family playing soccer or a young nurse who’s helping someone [during the Great March of Return protests in Gaza]. This is how entertainment shapes our minds.”