Why is Marvel Being Accused of Antisemitism?

Rumors of a race-change prompt a backlash, charges of racism and antisemitism.

One of Marvel Comic’s most iconic and well-known characters is the Jewish Holocaust survivor Erik Lensherr, also known as the Mutant villain Magneto. To date, two different actors have portrayed him on screen. Sir Ian McKellen, an openly gay elderly Englishman, played an older iteration of Magneto in five films, beginning in the year 2000. Michael Fassbender, an Irish-German actor, played a younger version of the character in…