You pack so much food for thought into this, Gail. Each paragraph here deserves an article of elaboration, but I'll be brief.

The Super Bowl ad is "Blue Lives Matter", while the Blues are in the middle of a genocide that is shocking the world. Imagine Blue Lives Matter freaks showing up in Minneapolis to cheer while Derek Chauvin's knee squeezed the life out of George Floyd. That's Israel's Super Bowl ad. Israelis are made to look "dads", like "us" - the privileged Whyte American class, while its silence on the 30,000 slaughtered Palestinians implies their lives are worthless.

Israel's system of supremacy has benefited from everything before it, not only Jim Crow USA and Nazi Germany, but the British empire with its dominion over India and much of Africa, and from the Apartheid regime in South Africa. They also studied the genocide of indigenous Americans and the colonization of the West. To this day, Israelis build their stolenments in the form of a wagon circle surrounding a hilltop, with a guard tower in the middle.

I couldn't help notice, since this article is about a movie and a book, that Palestinians find serious impediments in getting their stories to the world. A thousand Anne Franks perished in Gaza, including reporters, who were disproportionately targeted, writers, filmmakers, etc. Decades ago, Israel sent letter bombs to murder Palestinian intellectuals like Ghassan Kanafani. This is how supremacy cements itself: Silence all dissenting voices.

Thank you for writing this and please keep talking about Palestine!