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Warner Bros under fire over movie on Israeli Air Force founder

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News websites + social media
  • 21 Nov 2024 23:15
3 Min Read

Warner Bros' new film, featuring Adolph Schwimmer, is widely criticized as an attempt to artwash Israeli genocide and crimes.

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    Archive picture of Adolph Schwimmer, undated (WikiCommons)

Warner Bros is developing a film about Adolph Schwimmer, a World War II veteran and the founder of the Israeli Aerospace Industries, with Aaron Sorkin slotted to write the script and possibly direct, as reported by Deadline.

According to the sources, the film will be based in part on an article by David Kushner published in Business Insider earlier this year, titled “America’s greatest gift to Israel."

Two Hollywood institutions — the Warner Bros. film studio and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin — are teaming up to make the movie, portraying Schwimmer’s role as "iconic" and "heroic". However, critics have criticized the work as biased toward the Israeli narrative.

In 1948, Schwimmer defied an international arms embargo by covertly transporting military planes and over 50,000 weapons through Czechoslovakia to the Haganah, a Zionist militia. These arms played a crucial role in the 1948 Nakba, which led to the killing of thousands of Palestinians in dozens of massacres and the forced displacement and expulsion of approximately 750,000 Palestinians.

The work was widely criticized and described as an effort to whitewash Israeli crimes, in what is also described as "artwashing". 

Many expressed their condemnation of the work, considering it an attempt to conceal American-backed genocide and colonial history. 

Some considered featuring Schwimmer exposes how criminals are considered "heroic" only because they're "white Jews" at a time when "thieves are canonized for robbing land and materiel."

So, thieves being canonized for robbing land and materiel, but because they're white Jews it's heroic pic.twitter.com/MNRq3V3vhV

— professor mir 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine (@ShabanaMir1) November 19, 2024

Another critic condemned the effort as an attempt to whitewash genocide, remarking, "Movie studios are openly signaling they believe audiences will blindly accept figures responsible for atrocities."

not to state the obvious but this is such an on the nose attempt at artwashing the America-backed genocide of palestine that Israel is carrying out that I can't even laugh. movie studios officially saying they think audiences are sheep who'll accept genocidal figures https://t.co/CFnlxkdagS

— an🍉 (@moonchildbichen) November 20, 2024

As the Israeli occupation – supported by the United States – escalates its assaults on Palestinians in Gaza and intensifies detention campaigns in the West Bank, many view the timing of this project as highly contentious.

Cannot think of a more tone-deaf time to be telling this story. I feel utterly insane. https://t.co/tjdxHG4jwo pic.twitter.com/xEHOewQunH

— Michael. (@yosoymichael) November 19, 2024

One criticized what the veteran was praised for, highlighting that his "heroic" sacrifice was a violation of an arms embargo on "Israel". 

The main detail on this dudes Wikipedia is that he worked for the Haganah to violate an arms embargo on Israel to deliver 30 stolen B-17 bombers to utilize in an ethnic cleansing operation which Palestinians refer to today as the Nakba. https://t.co/zz2zueSxxM

— Scott (@disorderlyswine) November 20, 2024

Another critic denounced the movie, describing it as a depiction of "a pilot shaking hands to swelling music while children die in the Gaza Strip."

Pilots shake hands to swelling music after being informed by a Jerusalem Post reporter that the IDF killed all those children. Tearful, meaningful stares. https://t.co/1m7dOkDsVT

— Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) November 20, 2024

The Israeli occupation has been carrying out an ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians, including women and children, along with the ongoing aggression on Lebanon that claimed the lives of more than 3,500 civilians. 

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