Asked by James Corden the other night if Donald Trump behaved when she met him as Miss Universe, actress Gal Gadot calmly noted that, as a veteran of the Israeli Defense Force, she’d been trained in Krav Maga, the IDF’s trademark martial art.

In other words, she would’ve slammed Trump to the floor if he’d crossed any lines.

Which tells you why Wonder Woman, the character Gadot plays on film, is indeed a fine UN goodwill ambassador “for the empowerment of women and girls.”

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this month led the honors for the heroine, who first appeared in comic books 75 years ago. She was forthrightly feminist from the first — a real Amazon fighting for justice in “man’s world.”

She’s been seen as such ever since — even making the first cover of Ms. magazine.

Yet some UN staff held a protest and launched a petition complaining that Princess Diana’s “current iteration” is a “large-breasted, white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American-flag motif and knee-high boots — the epitome of a ‘pin-up’ girl.”

As it happens, Gadot (again, an Israeli) is far less of an “All-American girl” than the last actress to play the heroine, Lynda Carter. And the uniform’s a lot less Old Glory-like these days, too.

(By the way: She was actually “born” as a clay statue of an infant, brought to flesh-and-blood life by a pagan diety — not that you saw the Catholic League protesting her UN honors.)

But there’s a larger point here, one that goes to why so few UN member nations would even consider a female chief: Feminism, women’s rights — heck, the whole concept of “rights”— are ideas born in the West, ones that still barely register in most of the globe.

The concepts are universal (and revolutionary), but those who understand and believe in them, just aren’t.

Want a woman to “to champion the rights of ALL women on the issue of gender equality and the fight for their empowerment,” as the petition-writers do? Well, you can ask the mostly white, Anglo, straight guys behind the big comic-book heroes to create a Wonder Woman who’s Zulu, Persian or Han — and have her stand against honor killings, foot-binding, female circumcision and countless other horrors.

But it’s still “cultural imperialism” — because that’s what the fight for women’s rights is.