Greta Thunberg, If You Can Stand Her

Greta Thunberg has received all sorts of acclaim for her work as an environmental warrior that began when she was scarcely out of grade school. But now that she’s 22, and has saved the planet, she’s gone on to other things. Would you be surprised to find out that she’s now going to make the world safe for Hamas? British journalist Brendan O’Neill takes her to task for her latest cause, and the malignancy of her attack on the tiny, embattled Jewish state that is now fighting a seven-front war for its survival. More on O’Neill’s dismemberment of Thunberg can be found here: “Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, May 7, 2025:

Why isn’t Greta Thunberg sailing an aid ship to Sudan? Things are dire there. Two years of war have given rise to ‘catastrophic hunger levels’. The horrors dwarf ‘those in Ukraine, Gaza and Somalia combined’, reports Deutsche Welle. And yet the benighted Sudanese have failed to win the favour of the world’s best known eco-brat. Her boat is destined not for Africa but for the only strip of land that matters to the virtuous of the West: Gaza.

Sweden’s prophetess of doom is back in the news. She’s making waves with her plan to sail to Gaza. She and others from the turbo-smug keffiyeh classes had planned to sail on a boat called – wait for it – Conscience. Rumour has it they called it that because ‘Aren’t We F**king Wonderful?’ was too long for the hull. But their moral expedition has been put on hold after a drone fired on their boat in waters off Malta, causing damage but no casualties.

Actually, Greta missed the boat, literally. She wasn’t on the good ship “Conscience,” part of the Freedom Flotilla that was going to “break the Israeli siege” of Gaza by bringing humanitarian aid. Something else kept her from going, but if physically she was not present, in spirit she was definitely there. She’s been a hater of Israel much of her short life.

Information is sparse. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) that’s organising this virtue-fest in the Med says 30 people were onboard at the time – the Maltese government says 16 were. Greta says Israel fired the drone, yet another ‘crystal-clear example’ that it doesn’t give a toss about ‘international law and human rights’; Israel is staying schtum.

The single drone launched by the IDF was carefully programmed so that it would not harm anyone aboard the boat, only the boat itself, rendered unfit, apparently, for further service. Thunberg claims that the IDF’s stopping a ship that is attempting to run Israel’s blockade, and thereby helping the terror group Hamas, shows Israel doesn’t care about “international law and human rights.” It is the IDF that is respecting international law, and before she makes an even bigger fool of herself, Greta Thunberg should read, neatly laid out before her, the discussion of Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, that can be found below in this article. And it is Israel that supports “human rights” by developing an elaborate plan to ensure that civilians in Gaza will receive the aid they need, without so much of it being stolen by Hamas.

Of course, no one wants to see Greta or her activist pals come to any harm. I’m glad that they haven’t. Yet it would be wholly wrong to describe this expedition as merely about delivering aid, as simply humanitarian. The aim of these seafaring Israelophobes is less to ‘help Gaza’ than to weaken Israel’s hold over the enemy territory it has seized in its bloody war with Hamas.

Like the Turkish Mavi Marmara, a ship that in 2010 tried to break an earlier blockade Israel had thrown up around Gaza to prevent the smuggling of weapons, this ship’s sole intent was to weaken Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid, as a way to weaken its hold on Gaza. In fact, we do not know if Thunberg’s ship may, in addition to such aid, also have been bringing in weapons to help Hamas. It wouldn’t surprise me.

The FFC is open about its desire to interfere with Israel’s war effort. It says it wants to ‘break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza’. So this isn’t just about handing food boxes to hungry Gazans – it’s about frustrating Israel’s encircling of Gaza as it hunts down the army of anti-Semites that butchered more than a thousand people on 7 October 2023….

Do you think Greta Thunberg has any idea what Israel’s temporary blockade is all about? It’s to pressure Hamas to return, dead or alive, the remaining hostages. Is that an unacceptable aim? Israel only began the blockade when it knew that there was a three-months supply of humanitarian aid in Gaza, not yet distributed; when those three months come to an end, I am certain some humanitarian aid will be renewed, though it will be delivered to the Gazans in such a way that Hamas can’t steal any of the aid for itself. Why has Greta Thunberg not joined a group to protest the terror group’s holding not just the Israelis hostage, but the people of Gaza hostage as well? The Israelis have prepared an elaborate plan, using a private contractor, to make sure that all humanitarian aid that in the future is brought into the Strip will be under guard, and brought by a private contractor directly to several distribution centers, where that aid will be given to the people of Gaza while Hamas will be prevented from seizing any of it. Thunberg doesn’t care about Hamas’ theft of humanitarian aid; she wants the world’s indignation directed solely at Israel. She no doubt considers Hamas’ acts on October 7 to be “legitimate acts of resistance.”