American Muslims for Palestine has been working for years to erase the Israeli experience from popular culture

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It’s a mystery that’s fit for a Hollywood movie. On Tuesday, multiple media outlets reported that Disney had caved to anti-Israel activists and removed the Israeli identity of Sabra, one of the few Jewish-Israeli superheroes, in the upcoming movie, “Captain America: Brave New World.”

On Wednesday, however, the entertainment news website TheWrap, citing two anonymous “insiders,” reported that the character will retain her Israeli identity and accent, but will no longer be a Mossad agent, as she was in the comics.

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Whatever the truth, it’s noteworthy that Sabra’s Israeli identity became an issue in the first place. Marvel announced that the Jewish superhero would be included in the next Captain America movie at Disney’s D23 Expo in 2022.

Almost immediately, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) launched a letter-writing campaign, claiming that including an Israeli character in the movie would “contribute to whitewashing the crimes of Israel’s government,” which it accused of “practising apartheid against Palestinians” and committing “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

I’ve previously written about AMP’s involvement in the anti-Israel campus protests and allegations that it is run by the same people who operated non-profits that were shut down in the early 2000s for having close associations with, and providing funding to, Hamas.

AMP itself is now........

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