Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory
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I could’ve sworn I’ve seen this exact headline a few months ago
Called it. They are beyond help now.
Israel just made a blunder
Perhaps. But is it a blunder if there will be zero repercussions?
Considering how often Israel and bibi commit crimes without repercussions, I’m fearing for Greta. I mean, the USA doesn’t even care when its own citizens die because of zionists - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/how-us-dealt-with-the-cases-of-nine-americans-killed-by-israel-since-2022
I’d like to see ol’ Benny Netanyahu wiggle his way out of this one
The Israeli PM quickly and easily avoids any actual consequence for his country’s actions
Nevertheless!
Release the hostages, Israel!
You mean the thousands of Palestinian hostages including women and children too, right?
Yes, all of them
Every single Palestinian living in Gaza is basically a hostage at this point
No doubt they’ll do what they did last time and just force her to watch Oct 7th footage and go “…Are you… Are you convinced yet? Please be convinced… Please”
hamas will be inspired by the boat trip and make peace. i can feel it. you can feel it.
peace is in the air, thank you greta
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Aw does the brave little girl make you feel a widdle inadequate? Time to promote genocide to make you feel strong and powerful like a big brave boy.
How’s that bootlicker diet? loose any weight?
Man, she’s been doing a lot of publicity stunt to help people. Thank Greta! Someone’s gotta do it and it’s helping.
People with this big brain take always crack me up… they think they’re shitting on her when they’re actually just admitting how successful she is, because her objective is literally to get publicity and attention for her cause.
Thesis elaboration pls
Not for money but fame?
(Not dogpiling, srs post)
More than your fat ass has done lately.
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Certainly fatter than those of the starving people you’re complaining about someone trying to help.
Great comeback. We’re all so proud of you. /s
Seems like a publicity stunt kinda thing to say, in this context.
Your brain certainly works like it’s mostly useless fat, but it’s probably just empty space in there.
Of all the comments asking you legitimate questions, this is the one you chose to reply to. Says a lot, unlike your reply.
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Gotta love that smug self-satisfied smile on her face as she enjoys a piggyback ride from the SWAT team.
Serious question though, how does Greta have money to travel all around the world and do whatever she wants? (Granted the things she wants to do are worldwide humanitarian efforts) but who is funding her food & shelter & clothing & yacht trips?
Publicity stunt? Even if that were true, if someone does good for selfish reasons, does it matter to the ones they help? They’ve done a good thing and someone is in a better condition in the end.
Steps of activism:
- Go through court system to challenge a law, be told No because the public don’t want to change the law.
- Change public opinion by doing protest, be told Not here and you wasting people time and they cannot get to work and media doesn’t cover it.
- Change public opinion by doing a stunt, reducing effect on people day to day commute and media is forced to cover it. Be told “it is a publicity stunt and useless” <- we are moving from here.
- Challenge the system with strikes and massive protest, be told you are being angry and destroying public properties.
- Actual revolution, be told you are being a terrorist.
- Successful New system, “Thank you Greta I was supporting you since you start protesting climate change!”
- Failed revolution, “I told you so, you should have stayed home, now let me go back to my two part jobs to afford medical when I get heart attack from eating my favourite fast food.”
Maybe lowest vote total I’ve seen on Lemmy? Congrats on being universally hated I guess. I never thought we’d all agree on anything but here we are. It’s beautiful.
I saw a full thread of Greta hate on Reddit. Completely unhinged. I think it was r/worldnews. I then argued with someone and they sent me a DailyMail link.
That place is fucking deranged but it’s also a carefully constructed culture where any critical comments towards Israel result in a permanent ban.
I already have them tagged as ‘zionist troll’, shitty takes are their thing I guess
Do you deny the genocide in Gaza?
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So you disagree with her stance? Or just how much attention she’s bringing to the topic? Why does it bother you?
Since when is caring about our planets biggest problems and having the platform and reach to try and make a difference “moving onto the next publicity stunt”
They aren’t wrong their intention is publicity and a stunt is doing something dangerous which this would qualify for. The issue is slanting it as a negative, all protests are publicity stunts that’s like their whole purpose.
“Publicity stunt” has the connotation that you’re only doing it for attention. The commenter is basically saying she’s putting herself in harms way and bringing attention to significant causes just because she’s an attention whore and not because she actually cares about them.
They are literally doing it for attention, but yes I agree slanting it as a negative is unwise and misleading.
That’s why I added the modifier “only”.
They are only doing it for publicity. It’s quite literally getting very publicly arrested to bring light to and test the blockade in court as a matter of international law. What other purpose do you think they have?
Man you smacked the hornets nest with this comment.
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Not arrested. Kidnapped and taken hostage.
Easy for me to say, they should have kept rolling and forced the Israelis to get violent. I’m American, with a few reasons to fear these our fascists, made my choice. If it comes to it, I fight. Neither my government nor Israel has shown any quarter, no reason not to die with our boots on.
tl;dr: They’re going to kill you anyway.
If it comes to it, I fight.
Tell me you’ve never been on a sailing yacht on the open seas deciding whether you’re going to try and ram your way through some navy ships without telling me you’ve never been on a sailing yacht on the open seas deciding whether you’re going to try and ram your way through some navy ships
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It’s much more effective to do what they did than to intentionally instigate an attack. Don’t give Israel any leeway to say “Well we were justified because…”
You know the nazis want you to do nothing, right?
“No, nazis want me to attack them!”
No, no they do not. They are cowards, only acting strong when they hugely outnumber everyone around them. But they don’t outnumber us. They only do, if you sit in your house and tell people to do the same thing.
Then start assembling your army and go invade Israel.
No? Right. The flotilla didn’t have the ability to muscle past the Israeli military; grassroots endeavours never will. The only way to win is to continue drawing attention to how awful they are until the people with real firepower do something.
If that never happens, then the fascists in charge of Israel win. It sucks, but talking tough on the internet won’t change it. The Communists didn’t prevent the Nazis rise to power by brawling with them in the street either.
This can have a massive impact on European politics, especially in Italy and especially if the response from the Italian dockworkers totally fucks up the operations of Italian ports for a couple of weeks.
Also I’m curious about the reaction in Spain given that the frigate they sent did fuck all.
I agree mostly, in this case, because they have the media attention. If they didn’t then they aren’t protected by everyone watching, and also going down fighting would bring attention to the situation, which is beneficial.
If they come for you, your only obligation is to not make it easy.
Would be even funnier if they sent out a ship loaded with bombs in international waters and then detonate it when the Zionists put their nose where it doesn’t belong.
A yes, terrorist attacks have such great results for Palestinians.
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That’s not an attack.
It’s a defense.
It’s also not terrorism.
Good job being average.
She’s still a kid why are they letting her go everywhere alone?
No, Greta was kidnapped
Again.
In fairness, it is her job
Is she related to Princess Peach?
She’s a professional activist. Her job is to get improperly detained
Peach is a hobbyist
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Seriously?
These mods are a joke.
It’s only a matter of time until we get better instances without the abuse of power.
This is one of the largest forums in the largest lemmy instance, so controlling powers for information gathering and message shaping such as Mod and Admin here are obvious targets for state actors.
From my own experience and impressions here both in modding actions, the posts of some mods in some other forums and even getting an e-mail from a Tel-Aviv based organisation when I was a member of Lemmy.World (highly critical of the Genocide) on the e-mail address of that account, at least the US and probably Israel have obtained both kinds of positions here.
Lemmy try this:
Death to the gestapo, death to the SS, death to Stasi, death to the KGB.
Mods, I’m awaiting your judgement lol.
Or does it have to be a currently existing one?
Death to the FSB?
Fellas, is it illegal to say “Death to the FSB”?
👀
Death to the CIA
there, you forgot a big one
Glance at US news in 2025
“I can’t complain” 👀 🔫👮♂️🚔
(Am in the US)
Edit: Oh shit I hear knocking on the door. You doomed me. You spoke of
hethey, who shall not be named
Not quite the same though.
Death to the ICE and Mossad.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Calling out genocide is racism.
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So glad those Italian and Spanish ships did…
Absolutely fuck all. Spineless.
They said from the beginning that they were only there to rescue anyone should they end up in the ocean. Not to protect the aid boats.
The fact that they openly said that tells you all you need to know about thier governments.
bruh, just how much kiddie porn blackmail does israel have on the west…goddamn.
It’s stronger… it’s money.
Even on that insane wild-eyed little Italian blondie PM?
So glad those Italian and Spanish ships did…
Being there likely saved Gretta from getting merc’d by an IDF sniper.
They’re not doing enough, but they’re also not doing nothing.
No, because they left when the flotilla entered the danger zone
they did absolutely nothing, stopped following then when they reach the orange line, which is not gazan or Israeli territorial waters, but the heart of the Mediterranean where Israel likes to attack civilians.
They literally turned around before they reached the Israeli boats. So no, that didn’t happen
It was all for show to appease protestors.
Fuck the guardian. It’s the Global Sumud Flotilla, not Greta, you filthy zionists.
Gaza aid flotilla in the title. Not Greta’s flotilla. Her name is there because she’s the most well known person there, probably and also because not everyone was arrested.
It says in the article
The Global Sumud Flotilla said most of its vessels were continuing their journey as of early Thursday morning, nearing the coast of the Gaza strip despite the interruptions.
Mind you, whilst you are totally right, The Guardian have long been “fucking Zionists” and even now that they toned down their overt support of the Genocide, still are “fucking Zionists” judging by their continued practices of framing both sides differently, such as how in their articles Israelis “are killed” whilst Palestinias merely “die”.
I’m a Guardian reader and I would say in recent months they have taken a largely pro-Palestinian viewpoint. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/palestinians-killed-in-fresh-wave-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza
Parts of Gaza are experiencing famine because of an Israeli blockade, while more than half a million people have been displaced south by bombing over the past six weeks. Israel insists there is no famine, contrary to the findings of most global aid bodies. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 66,200 Palestinians and wounded about 170,000, according to the Gaza health authority.
That doesn’t sound like Zionist propaganda to me, it sounds like an accurate tally of the suffering that Israel is causing.
Israel is terrorist country. Must be banned from every international organization.
