Superman film a commentary on immigration? On Israel Palestine? Oh how helpless we feel witnessing genocide? Why is the right so angry about this film?

We're talking the politics of Superman, then and now, and its Jewish left history with our guest Elana Levin ⁠@elana_brooklyn⁠⁠  of ⁠Graphic Policy Radio⁠.

Elana Levin is a pop culture critic with a long history in superhero comics and comics-inspired media. They host Graphic Policy Radio, a podcast at the intersection of genre media and movements for social change.

Elana works in digital organizing and communications for labor unions and community-based organizations.Their writing includes How Jack Kirby and DC Comics Predicted Trump With a Bloviating Demagogue in 1971 published by the Daily Beast.

Elana is currently working on Project Fulcrum, Get Free’s fan activist campaign organizing Star Wars Andor fans against the threat of the Empire in a galaxy not so far away at all.

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