I've never quite understood the nature of this criticism. At best I'd describe it as deeply intellectualized tribalism. But I think I'm being a little too kind.

I (in good faith) don’t understand what you don’t understand. Western Sahara is basically a colony so if you’re opposed to colonialism it isn’t super weird to be opposed to making a movie in that colony, paying taxes etc to the colonizers and so on, no?

Is it any different from Disney being criticized for filming Mulan (2020) in Xinjiang?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/disney-criticized-for-film...