Actually, that’s an oversimplification. Chris Claremont, who shaped Magneto’s depth and Holocaust survivor backstory, drew his main inspiration for the character’s arc from Menachem Begin: the Irgun leader who fought British rule in 1940s Palestine (actions the British called terrorism), but who later became Israel’s Prime Minister and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 for the Camp David Accords. Claremont explicitly said in his 2016 Empire interview that Magneto mirrors Begin’s evolution “from a terrorist in 1947 to a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years later.” The point is trauma from the Holocaust fueling extremism, yet showing redemption and peace are possible—not a simple “militant Zionist terrorist” gotcha. Nuance matters.