🚨 Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Flops as Both Sides Boycott: Gal Gadot’s Role Sparks Global Backlash

Disney’s $250M live-action Snow White was supposed to be a fairytale comeback. Instead, it’s turning into a financial horror story — and much of the blame lies with its casting of Israeli actress and former IDF soldier Gal Gadot.

Let’s break it down ⬇️

📉 Disney’s $250M Disaster

Snow White opened to a weak $43M in the U.S. and just $87M globally — far below Disney’s projections and nowhere near enough to recoup its massive $250 million budget.

This is on track to be one of Disney’s biggest box office flops ever.

💸 That’s less than 20% of what The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast made in their opening weekends.

💣 Why Did It Bomb?

It’s not just about the film being bad (though critics didn’t hold back).

Instead, Snow White got caught in the crossfire of global outrage — from both the left and the right.

🇵🇸 Pro-Palestine Boycott: No Platform for War Criminals

Gal Gadot has proudly aligned herself with the Israeli military and defended its attacks on Gaza — where over 61,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, most of them women and children.

She’s repeatedly used her platform to justify these actions, calling for support of the IDF even as Israel faces genocide accusations at the International Court of Justice.

That didn’t sit well with audiences in the Arab world, or with millions globally calling for a #FreePalestine.

🛑 Arab resistance groups across Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Tunisia launched campaigns to boycott Snow White, labeling it cultural normalization of occupation.

📲 Hashtags like #BoycottSnowWhite, #SnowWhiteWithOccupationFlavour, and #BoycottGalGadot flooded social media.

🗣️ Gadot Is No Hero

Let’s be real — casting a former IDF soldier to play a character in a fairytale meant for children is more than tone-deaf.

It’s part of a broader Hollywood pattern of rewarding those complicit in violent systems — while silencing those who speak for justice.

😵 The Right’s Boycott Too?

Here’s where it gets messier: Snow White also got heat from conservatives.

They criticized Disney for being “too woke,” slammed the film’s diverse casting (yes, they were mad the dwarves weren’t all white men), and were furious over lead actress Rachel Zegler’s past anti-Trump and pro-Palestine comments.

Zegler said “Free Palestine” and dared to challenge the original Snow White’s plot. Disney reportedly tried to censor her. She didn’t budge.

Now, both pro-Israel conservatives and pro-Palestinian audiences are boycotting — and Disney is left with a pile of losses.

🎭 A Cultural Battle Disney Can’t Win

💥 Snow White is a perfect storm of backlash:

• A lead actress (Gadot) tied to an apartheid regime.
• A co-star (Zegler) criticized for being “too political” by the right.
• A $250M movie that nobody wanted to see.

Disney tried to play both sides — and lost both.

🐾 One More Thing: Don’t Let Your Money Fund Occupation

Disney is learning the hard way: audiences are no longer silent. We see through the whitewashing. We won’t fund films that normalize genocide.

📱 Use Boycat to keep your spending aligned with your values.

🧊 Don’t just boycott Snow White — boycott companies that platform apartheid.

🪞 Mirror, mirror on the wall… who’s the most complicit of them all?
Disney — and they’re paying the price.

#FreePalestine ✊🏽
#BoycottSnowWhite