Landing back in France after her ill-fated attempt to travel to Gaza in a flotilla was foiled by Israeli authorities and she was sent packing back to Europe, climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared to pretend to be handcuffed as soon as she saw media waiting for her arrival.
Thunberg, 22, was being escorted by police with her arms at her sides, but immediately put her arms and hands behind her back, seemingly to make it seem as though her hands were restrained.
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What a mythomaniac! Greta Thunberg lands in France and walks around with her arms alongside her body. As soon as she sees reporters she tightens her hands behind her back to make it look like she is handcuffed.🤡🤣🤡🤣 <a href="https://t.co/mX17fFk6cr">pic.twitter.com/mX17fFk6cr</a>
&mdash; Sophie Robert🎗️🧡 (@MoulineJeanne) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoulineJeanne/status/1932528585652175275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Thunberg’s actions were reminiscent of another prominent leftist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who in July 2022 took part in a pro-abortion rally at the Supreme Court and looked as if she was pretending to be handcuffed as she was escorted away by police. “The Bronx and Queens Democratic lawmaker was gently escorted away by a Capitol Police officer — along with fellow city Rep. Carolyn Maloney — after blocking traffic outside the court building,” the New York Post reported. “AOC kept up the charade of being restrained for a few steps before raising her fist to supporters watching from the sidewalk. She then crossed her <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1549462189895041024">wrists behind her back again</a> in the faux handcuffed position.”’
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AOC fakes being handcuffed after arrest at abortion rights protest <a href="https://t.co/cs7GyF4RS1">https://t.co/cs7GyF4RS1</a> <a href="https://t.co/XBP0Ahmib7">pic.twitter.com/XBP0Ahmib7</a>
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In January 2023, Thunberg was accused of staging her detention at a coal mine protest. “During the purported photo-up, video shows Thunberg smiling and laughing with who appears to be another protester,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/greta-thunberg-laughs-video-german-police-coal-mine-detention-photo-op-staged-cameras">noted</a>. “One officer, clad in riot gear and a helmet, has Thunberg by the arm, while another stands next to her with his hands clasped in front of him. A third officer laughs along with them.“
“Thunberg falls quiet and serious as a photographer snaps pictures of her and the officers standing still. In the background, a large line of riot officers is seen standing in a line some distance away,” Fox News continued. “Several photographers swarm around Thunberg as two officers then lead her toward a parking lot.”
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The fake arrest of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaThunberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaThunberg</a> 
All set up for the cameras. <a href="https://t.co/IViYGTXnG9">pic.twitter.com/IViYGTXnG9</a>
&mdash; TVisCOOL! 📺 www.tviscool.com (@TVisCOOLUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVisCOOLUK/status/1615415275649699842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A spokesman for the Aachen police protested that the detention was genuine, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11650101/Greta-Thunberg-seen-laughing-German-police-posing-pictures-detained.html">telling</a> German news outlet BILD: “There was no staging. The police officers were definitely not posing. They were working on a mission. And as part of that, they had to wait.”

SWEDEN-ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-WAR-CONFLICT

‘What A Mythomaniac!’: Greta Thunberg Fakes Being Handcuffed After Being Deported From Israel

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Greta Thunberg

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Israel

World

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, who famously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunberg-sailed-new-york-avoid-contributing-ashe-schow">avoids</a> air travel for environmental reasons, was forced to board a plane on Tuesday after Israel deported her following the Israel Defense Force&#8217;s interception of what officials called her Gaza-bound &#8220;selfie yacht.&#8221;
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed Tuesday via X that Thunberg “departed Israel on a flight to Sweden” via France, sharing pictures of the 22-year-old buckled in an airplane seat near the lavatory.
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Greta Thunberg just departed Israel on a flight to Sweden (via France). <a href="https://t.co/kWrI9KVoqX">pic.twitter.com/kWrI9KVoqX</a>
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1932337642886021543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Three other activists were also transported for deportation, while eight others — reportedly <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-3-other-flotilla-activists-booted-from-israel-8-held-for-refusing-deportation/">including</a> a European Parliament member — refused to sign the required paperwork and are awaiting a judicial hearing to authorize their deportation.
According to The Times of Israel, Thunberg told her lawyers that refusing to sign the deportation papers would do more harm than good.
“I do more good outside of Israel than if I am forced to stay here for a few weeks,” Thunberg told her lawyers, per The Times of Israel. “If we choose to stay here against the will of the Israeli authorities and are arrested for a few weeks, it will harm our cause.”
Thunberg and the 11 other anti-Israel activists attempted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-flotilla-circled-by-israeli-forces-en-route-to-gaza">break</a> the Israeli blockade of Gaza over the weekend, despite numerous warnings from the IDF, and bring in less than a truckload of humanitarian supplies to the active war zone.
Israeli authorities mockingly dubbed the vessel the &#8220;selfie yacht,&#8221; asserting the mission was merely a publicity stunt, given the minuscule amount of aid on the flotilla.
“The tiny amount of aid that wasn’t consumed by the &#8216;celebrities&#8217; will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels,” the Israel Foreign Ministry <a href="https://x.com/Israel/status/1931983917545869409">wrote</a> on X. “More than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past two weeks, and close to 11 million meals were transferred by the GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) directly to civilians in Gaza.”
“There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip — they do not involve provocations and selfies.”
Before her deportation, Thunberg posted a pre-recorded video claiming she had been &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; by Israel, a claim that generated criticism in the wake of hundreds of Israelis being taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters,” she said. “I urge all of my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
President Donald Trump mocked the Swede on Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-has-a-recommendation-for-greta-thunberg-after-her-selfie-flotilla?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Donald+Trump+Has+A+Recommendation+For+Greta+Thunberg+After+Her+%E2%80%98Selfie+Flotilla%E2%80%99">suggesting</a>, &#8220;I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg,&#8221; and recommending she enroll in &#8220;anger management&#8221; classes.

Greta Thunberg Deportation

Greta Thunberg Deported From Israel After ‘Selfie Yacht’ Intercepted

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President Donald Trump offered advice to Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Monday, after she was detained by the Israel Defense Forces for attempting to sail to Gaza with the “Freedom Flotilla.”
“Well she’s a strange person,” Trump said at a White House event. “She’s a young, angry person. I don’t know if it&#8217;s real anger, it’s hard to believe actually, but I saw what happened. She’s certainly different, anger management. I think she has to go to an anger management class. That’s my primary recommendation for her.”
The Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit and the Snapir harbor border security unit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-flotilla-circled-by-israeli-forces-en-route-to-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Intercepts+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Freedom+Flotilla%3A+%E2%80%98The+Show+Is+Over%E2%80%99">intercepted the</a> “Freedom Flotilla” Sunday night and offered the 12 left-wing activists aboard the “Madleen” one final warning to turn back. When they refused, the IDF forces boarded the vessel around 3:00 a.m., and provided the group sandwiches and water before towing the vessel to Ashdod.
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President Donald Trump says Greta Thunberg needs anger management classes.
&quot;She&#39;s a young angry person, I don&#39;t know if its real anger, it&#39;s hard to believe actually.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3yZ32q4s6W">pic.twitter.com/3yZ32q4s6W</a>
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The Israel Foreign Ministry shared a photo of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-says-prepared-deal-with-greta-thunbergs-flotilla-en-route-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Says+It%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Prepared%E2%80%99+To+Deal+With+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Flotilla+En+Route+To+Gaza">Thunberg</a> smiling when being handed the sandwich and water, with the caption, “Greta Thunberg is currently on her way to Israel, safe and in good spirits.”
Following Thunberg’s arrest, a <a href="https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1931883778244292843">prerecorded video message</a> of her was released, where she said she was “kidnapped” by the IDF.
“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters,” she said. “I urge all of my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
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When asked if her claim that she was “kidnapped by Israel” is accurate, Trump responded, “I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg.”
“Is that what she said, she was kidnapped by Israel?” Trump asked, shaking his head.
Greta and her comrades docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod on Monday and underwent medical examinations to ensure that they are in good health, according to the ministry, which posted a photo of Thunberg on shore in front of Israeli flags.
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The ‘Selfie Yacht’ docked at Ashdod Port a short while ago. The passengers are currently undergoing medical examinations to ensure they are in good health. <a href="https://t.co/dGOhPxQnYI">pic.twitter.com/dGOhPxQnYI</a>
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The group is expected to be held in a detention facility in Ramle before being deported from the Jewish state.
In a press briefing Monday, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Thunberg gave “a new definition to the word chutzpah.”
“In more than 20 months, Greta has not found one single moment to call for the release of our hostages, not one single moment, and she has the chutzpah to say that she has been kidnapped,” Mencer said. “Greta will be returned back to her home country very, very shortly with the firm message that [this] isn’t a music festival, it’s a warzone.”
Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said he instructed the IDF to show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-to-show-greta-thunberg-graphic-footage-of-hamas-october-7-massacre?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Israel+To+Show+Greta+Thunberg+Graphic+Footage+Of+Hamas%E2%80%99+October+7+Massacre">graphic footage</a> of Hamas’ October 7 massacre to the group upon their arrival to Israel.
“It is appropriate that the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas supporters see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself,” <a href="https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1931928974889795600">Katz said</a>.
While much of the 40+ minute footage has been circulated online, the compilation does not blur the faces of dead or alive adults, and includes some videos that have not been released publicly. In total, the video shows over 120 bodies, including children, videos of beheadings, houses and people set on fire, unarmed people shot at point-blank range, and more.
The group, which has been mocked as the “selfie flotilla,” or sailing on a “selfie yacht,” was using the voyage as a publicity stunt in its attempt to break the Israeli blockade and bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
The ministry pointed out that the 59-foot boat included less than a single truckload of aid, while more than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza over the last two weeks. The Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered more than 8 million meals to Gazans since its operation began less than a month ago, according to the organization.
Mencer called Thunberg’s stunt “Instagram activism,” adding, “And to poor Greta, we say who is really funding Gaza, who is really feeding Gaza, and who is funding their own ego?”
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“This was a PR stunt sailing under the flag of moral vanity,” Mencer said. “We won’t allow a dangerous precedent to dock at our shores. Letting this selfie yacht dock in Gaza would open the floodgates for Iran-backed terror, for extremists worldwide and for every pseudo activist chasing headlines.”
The Israeli government plans to transfer the “tiny” amount of aid aboard the boat to Gaza through “real humanitarian channels,” according to the ministry.
The flotilla passengers are primarily left-wing activists, including Thiago Ávila of Brazil, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-brazilian-flotilla-buddy-attended-funeral-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Brazilian+Flotilla+Buddy+Attended+Funeral+Of+Hezbollah+Leader+Hassan+Nasrallah">who has a long record</a> of anti-Israel radicalism—including attending the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, calling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-recovers-bodies-of-two-american-hostages-in-gaza">the hostages</a> in Gaza “prisoners,” meeting with terrorists, and stating that he “despises” both the United States and Israel.
European Parliament member, Rima Hassan, is also detained.
An earlier version of this article mistakenly claimed that Liam Cunningham was aboard the Madleen. It has been confirmed that he was not onboard the vessel after it departed.

Greta and Trump

Donald Trump Has A Recommendation For Greta Thunberg After Her ‘Selfie Flotilla’

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Professional activist Greta Thunberg was roundly mocked for a video she posted to social media in which she claimed she&#8217;d been &#8220;kidnapped in international waters,&#8221; either by Israeli officials or by forces loyal to Israel.
Thunberg, wrapped in a keffiyeh, stared into the camera and claimed, &#8220;If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.&#8221; She then called on people to &#8220;put pressure&#8221; on the Swedish government to do everything they could to get her back.
But as critics quickly pointed out, Thunberg&#8217;s &#8220;hostage video&#8221; was recorded and shared before the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-flotilla-circled-by-israeli-forces-en-route-to-gaza">Freedom Flotilla</a>&#8221; — also dubbed the &#8220;Selfie Flotilla&#8221; — was ever even intercepted by Israeli officials. They also noted that once they were detained, Thunberg and her fellow activists were treated humanely — a courtesy not afforded the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
&#8220;Imagine pre-recording a video claiming you were &#8216;kidnapped&#8217; by Israel- then going ahead and doing the exact thing that gets you legally detained. Nice choreography,&#8221; Hen Mazzig posted. &#8220;You weren&#8217;t kidnapped, Greta. You trespassed into an active war zone. You were warned. Repeatedly. And you went anyway-cameras rolling. Real hostages don&#8217;t get to pre-record their statements. Real hostages are held by your Hamas friends underground in Gaza- starving, tortured, and forgotten by activists like you.&#8221;
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Imagine pre-recording a video claiming you were “kidnapped&#8221; by Israel- then going ahead and doing the exact thing that gets you legally detained. Nice choreography.
You weren&#8217;t kidnapped, Greta. 
You trespassed into an active war zone. 
You were warned. Repeatedly.
And you went… <a href="https://t.co/LNJ4aEzx4g">pic.twitter.com/LNJ4aEzx4g</a>
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1931883778244292843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Greta filmed a video claiming she’s been &#8216;kidnapped.&#8217; In reality, her boat was peacefully boarded, and she’s being brought to shore—where she’ll likely be deported and return to Sweden to continue her selfie activism. The same can’t be said for the 55 hostages still trapped in Hamas’s terror tunnels—starved, tortured, and forgotten for over 20 months,&#8221; Aviva Klompas added.
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Greta filmed a video claiming she’s been “kidnapped.” In reality, her boat was peacefully boarded, and she’s being brought to shore—where she’ll likely be deported and return to Sweden to continue her selfie activism.
The same can’t be said for the 55 hostages still trapped in… <a href="https://t.co/sDyHsNvBst">pic.twitter.com/sDyHsNvBst</a>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1931879455087079795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;No, @gretathunberg, you little self-righteous provocateur, you are not a &#8216;hostage&#8217; or ‘kidnapped’. You were treated peacefully, with dignity, provided food by Israel and will now get to go home. But you know who actually are hostages?&#8221; Arsen Ostrovsky posted.
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No dear <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>, you little self-righteous provocateur, you are not a &#8216;hostage&#8217; or ‘kidnapped’. You were treated peacefully, with dignity, provided food by Israel and will now get to go home.
But you know who actually are hostages? <a href="https://t.co/eaNWKNhpHX">pic.twitter.com/eaNWKNhpHX</a>
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1932066544546197659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Piers Morgan weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;Oh shut up, @GretaThunberg &#8211; you attention-seeking narcissist. What an insult to the actual hostages in Gaza who really WERE kidnapped. This stupid stunt is all about your ego, and will make zero difference to the plight of innocent Palestinians caught up in this dreadful war.&#8221;
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Oh shut up, <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> &#8211; you attention-seeking narcissist. What an insult to the actual hostages in Gaza who really WERE kidnapped. This stupid stunt is all about your ego, and will make zero difference to the plight of innocent Palestinians caught up in this dreadful war. <a href="https://t.co/T5Tej2fgZ4">https://t.co/T5Tej2fgZ4</a>
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1931988536812544212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Greta Thunberg records video saying she’s been kidnapped by Israel- then sails directly into a war zone to ensure she’ll be intercepted,&#8221; Brandon Straka posted. &#8220;Even Jussie didn’t have the nerve to announce his hate crime BEFORE it happened.&#8221;
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Greta Thunberg records video saying she’s been kidnapped by Israel- then sails directly into a war zone to ensure she’ll be intercepted. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Even Jussie didn’t have the nerve to announce his hate crime BEFORE it happened. <a href="https://t.co/L6IctcmPhW">pic.twitter.com/L6IctcmPhW</a>
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1931898283171180884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Freedom Flotilla’ And Greta Thunberg Prepare To Depart Italy For Gaza

Greta Thunberg Mocked Over ‘Hostage’ Video: ‘Even Jussie Didn’t Have The Nerve’

Greta Thunberg Mocked Over 'Hostage' Video: 'Even Jussie Didn't Have The Nerve'

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Greta Thunberg and fellow passengers who were detained by the Israel Defense Forces when trying to sail a boat to Gaza will be shown the graphic footage of Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre.
Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said he instructed the IDF to show the footage to Thunberg and the other 11 left-wing activists upon their arrival at the Port of Ashdod.
“It is appropriate that the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas supporters see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself,” <a href="https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1931928974889795600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katz said</a>.
While much of the 40+ minute footage has been circulated online, the compilation does not blur the faces of dead or alive adults, and includes some videos that have not been released publicly. In total, the video shows over 120 bodies, including children, videos of beheadings, houses and people set on fire, unarmed people shot at point-blank range, and more.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-couldnt-breathe-watch-arabs-react-after-screening-footage-of-hamas-slaughtering-civilians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I COULDN’T BREATHE’: WATCH ARABS REACT AFTER SCREENING FOOTAGE OF HAMAS SLAUGHTERING CIVILIANS</a>
The Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit and the Snapir harbor border security unit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-flotilla-circled-by-israeli-forces-en-route-to-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Intercepts+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Freedom+Flotilla%3A+%E2%80%98The+Show+Is+Over%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intercepted the</a> “Freedom Flotilla&#8221; Sunday night and offered the group aboard the “Madleen” one final warning to turn back. When they refused, the IDF forces boarded the vessel around 3:00 a.m., and provided the group sandwiches and water before towing the vessel to Ashdod.
<div id="attachment_931267" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-931267" class="size-large wp-image-931267" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Gs9_WWsXAAAAKwH-1024x576.jpeg" alt="Greta Thunberg" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Gs9_WWsXAAAAKwH-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Gs9_WWsXAAAAKwH-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Gs9_WWsXAAAAKwH-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Gs9_WWsXAAAAKwH.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />The DF forces provided Thunberg and her fellow passengers sandwiches and water before towing the vessel to Ashdod. (Photo: Israel Foreign Ministry)</div>
The Israel Foreign Ministry shared a photo of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-says-prepared-deal-with-greta-thunbergs-flotilla-en-route-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Says+It%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Prepared%E2%80%99+To+Deal+With+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Flotilla+En+Route+To+Gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thunberg</a> smiling when being handed the sandwich and water, with the caption “Greta Thunberg is currently on her way to Israel, safe and in good spirits.”
Following Thunberg’s arrest, a <a href="https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1931883778244292843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prerecorded video message</a> of her was released, where she said she was “kidnapped” by the IDF.
“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters,” she said. “I urge all of my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
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In a press briefing Monday, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Thunberg gave “a new definition to the word chutzpah.”
“In more than 20 months, Greta has not found one single moment to call for the release of our hostages, not one single moment, and she has the chutzpah to say that she has been kidnapped,” Mencer said. “Greta will be returned back to her home country very very shortly with the firm message that isn’t a music festival, it&#8217;s a warzone.”
The group, which has been mocked as the “selfie flotilla,” or sailing on a “selfie yacht” is using the voyage as a publicity stunt in its attempt to break the Israeli blockade and bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
The ministry pointed out that the 59-foot boat included less than a single truckload of aid, while more than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza over the last two weeks. The Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered more than 8 million meals to Gazans since its operation began less than a month ago, according to the organization.
Mencer called Thunberg’s stunt “Instagram activism,” adding, “And to poor Greta, we say who is really funding Gaza, who is really feeding Gaza and who is funding their own ego?”
“This was a PR stunt sailing under the flag of moral vanity,” Mencer said. “We won’t allow a dangerous precedent to dock at our shores. We won’t allow a dangerous precedent to dock at our shores. Letting this selfie yacht dock in Gaza would open the floodgates for Iran-backed terror, for extremists worldwide and for every pseudo activist chasing headlines.”
The Israeli government plans to transfer the “tiny” amount of aid aboard the boat to Gaza through “real humanitarian channels,” according to the ministry.
The flotilla passengers are primarily left-wing activists, including Thiago Ávila of Brazil <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-brazilian-flotilla-buddy-attended-funeral-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Brazilian+Flotilla+Buddy+Attended+Funeral+Of+Hezbollah+Leader+Hassan+Nasrallah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who has a long record</a> of anti-Israel radicalism—including attending the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, calling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-recovers-bodies-of-two-american-hostages-in-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the hostages</a> in Gaza “prisoners,” meeting with terrorists, and stating that he “despises” both the United States and Israel.
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In February, Ávila widely shared his attendance at Nasrallah’s funeral, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGY-cEKM2KB/?igsh=MXY0d2J1c2xybHVkNg==" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> interviews where he said Nasrallah “shines” as a figure who was “thinking about liberation of the entire world.” In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGYug3_tqVV/?igsh=MWt3MDJ4bDMwZDk2dw==" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another video</a>, he called Nasrallah a “martyr” who inspires people “all over the world.”
In the days after Hamas’ massacre, rape, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians, <a href="https://archive.is/HHzyf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ávila criticized</a> UN Secretary General António Guterres for calling for the immediate release of the hostages, calling them instead “prisoners” and advocating for them to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
French member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan, was also detained.
An earlier version of this article mistakenly claimed that Liam Cunningham was aboard the Madleen. It has been confirmed that he was not onboard the vessel after it departed.

October 7 Greta Thunberg

Israel To Show Greta Thunberg Graphic Footage Of Hamas’ October 7 Massacre

The Israeli Defense Forces intercepted and boarded the “Freedom Flotilla,” which Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists planned to sail to Gaza. 
Upon boarding the vessel named “Maldeen” around 3:00 a.m., IDF troops gave the 12 left-wing activists aboard sandwiches and water.
“All the passengers of the ‘selfie yacht’ are safe and unharmed,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted to X. “They were provided with sandwiches and water. The show is over.”
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All the passengers of the ‘selfie yacht’ are safe and unharmed. They were provided with sandwiches and water. The show is over. <a href="https://t.co/tLZZYcspJO">pic.twitter.com/tLZZYcspJO</a>
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1931885257604645074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
In a statement, the ministry said the boat was being taken to Israel and the passengers will be returned to their home countries.
In a <a href="https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1931883778244292843">prerecorded video message</a>, Thunberg said she was &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; by the IDF.
&#8220;If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I urge all of my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.&#8221;
The group, which has been mocked as the “selfie flotilla,” is using the voyage as a publicity stunt in its attempt to break the Israeli blockade and bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza. The passengers are primarily left-wing activists, including Thiago Ávila of Brazil <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunbergs-brazilian-flotilla-buddy-attended-funeral-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Brazilian+Flotilla+Buddy+Attended+Funeral+Of+Hezbollah+Leader+Hassan+Nasrallah">who has a long record</a> of anti-Israel radicalism—including attending the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-says-prepared-deal-with-greta-thunbergs-flotilla-en-route-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Says+It%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Prepared%E2%80%99+To+Deal+With+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Flotilla+En+Route+To+Gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IDF SAYS IT’S ‘PREPARED’ TO DEAL WITH GRETA THUNBERG’S FLOTILLA EN ROUTE TO GAZA</a>
The ministry pointed out that the 59-foot boat included less than a single truckload of aid, while more than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza over the last two weeks. The Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered more than 8 million meals to Gazans since its operation began less than a month ago, according to the organization.
“There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip — they do not involve Instagram selfies,” the ministry said. “The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels.”
According to United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, the flotilla was surrounded by 5 IDF speed boats prior to being intercepted.
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“I am with the flotilla online,” <a href="https://x.com/franceskalbs/status/1931838973502214364?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA">she posted</a> to X. “The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on. I hear them speaking with Israeli soldiers as I type&#8230; saying they are carrying humanitarian aid and go in peace. For the time being they are just circled. I am with them, recording everything.”
Albanese later added that the boat is continuing to sail, while the speedboats are “watching.”
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I just spoke again with the Flotilla, incl its Comm Room in Catania
All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.
It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, &quot;we are together&quot;. <a href="https://t.co/ya43ZyN7yF">https://t.co/ya43ZyN7yF</a>
&mdash; Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1931848494630772976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Alert. Our bot [sic] is being surrounded,” Ávila <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKqCft2xVp6/?igsh=dGVpMmNsOWg0amNy">posted to Instagram</a>. 
French member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan, was also detained.
On Sunday morning, Israel’s Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, <a href="https://x.com/israel_katz/status/1931679051657175188?s=46&amp;t=ghpHusspWPjTMisXwpsMaA">announced</a> that he instructed the IDF to prevent the “hate flotilla from reaching the shores of Gaza &#8211; and to take whatever measures are necessary to that end.”
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Katz called Thunberg “antisemitic Greta,” adding that she and her friends should turn back because they will “not reach Gaza.”
“Israel will act against any attempt to break the blockade or assist terrorist organizations – at sea, in the air, and on land,” Katz said. 
The IDF previously told The Daily Wire that it is “prepared for a wide range of scenarios which it will act upon in accordance with the directives of the political echelon.”
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The group has been tasked with implementing President Trump’s<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-humanitarian-aid-delivered-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Sends+Aid+To+Gaza.+Israel+Will+Not+Distribute+It."> aid initiative</a>, designed to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches Gazan civilians while preventing Hamas from seizing supplies — a problem that has persisted since the war began following the group’s October 7, 2023, massacre.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a statement, reiterating that &#8220;the maritime zone off the coast of Gaza is closed to unauthorized vessels under a legal naval blockade.&#8221;
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With recent reports of a “celebrities yacht” heading to Gaza, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to clarify the following:
The maritime zone off the coast of Gaza is closed to unauthorized vessels under a legal naval blockade, consistent with international law. 
The yacht…
&mdash; Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1931851553800949987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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An earlier version of this article mistakenly claimed that Liam Cunningham was aboard the Madleen. It has been confirmed that he was not onboard the vessel after it departed.

Greta Thunberg Flotilla

IDF Intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Freedom Flotilla: ‘The Show Is Over’

Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla Reports Being Circled By Israeli Forces En Route To Gaza

Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist sailing to Gaza alongside Greta Thunberg on the “Freedom Flotilla,” has a long record of anti-Israel radicalism—including attending the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Ávila is currently on board the Madleen, a 59-foot boat carrying Thunberg and other activists that is approaching Israeli waters in an attempt to sail to Gaza. The group, which has been mocked as the “selfie flotilla,” is using the voyage as a publicity stunt. Ávila has been seen in numerous videos filmed on the boat <a href="https://x.com/sahatenglish/status/1930244104782299326">singing</a> and spreading anti-Israel rhetoric.
The vessel is set to arrive on June 7 or 8, though it is unlikely that the Israel Defense Forces will allow the boat anywhere near Gaza. French member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan, is also onboard.
<div id="attachment_930607" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-930607" class="size-large wp-image-930607" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2218116784-864x576.jpg" alt="GRETA THUNBERG and Thiago Ávila" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2218116784-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2218116784-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2218116784-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-2218116784.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Greta Thunberg with part of the crew of the ship Madleen, shortly before departure for Gaza, during the press conference in San Giovanni Li Cuti on June 01, 2025 in Catania, Italy. (Photo by Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images)</div>
Regarding the blockade, the IDF told The Daily Wire that it is “prepared for a wide range of scenarios which it will act upon in accordance with the directives of the political echelon.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-says-prepared-deal-with-greta-thunbergs-flotilla-en-route-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=IDF+Says+It%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Prepared%E2%80%99+To+Deal+With+Greta+Thunberg%E2%80%99s+Flotilla+En+Route+To+Gaza">IDF SAYS IT’S ‘PREPARED’ TO DEAL WITH GRETA THUNBERG’S FLOTILLA EN ROUTE TO GAZA</a>
This voyage is not Ávila’s first: he was also aboard a larger vessel that was attacked and disabled before arriving in Malta to pick up Thunberg last month. It was later reportedly towed to Libya. The group accuses the IDF of the attack, though the IDF has not taken responsibility.
Ávila, who has half a million followers on Instagram, has a long history of radical activism. He has called the hostages in Gaza “prisoners,” met with terrorists, idolized Nasrallah at his funeral, and said that he “despises” both the United States and Israel.
<div id="attachment_930631" style="width: 334px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-930631" class="size-large wp-image-930631" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4-324x576.jpeg" alt="Thiago Ávila" width="324" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4-324x576.jpeg 324w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4-169x300.jpeg 169w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4-768x1366.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzcXwAArKx4.jpeg 946w" sizes="(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px" />Ávila posted a photo of himself meeting with Leila Khaled—a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who hijacked a civilian airliner in 1969. (Photo: Screenshot/X)</div>
Ávila has highlighted his interactions with terrorists, including posting a photo of himself meeting with Leila Khaled—a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who hijacked a civilian airliner in 1969. Jerusalem Post reporter <a href="https://x.com/StarrJpost/status/1893864011248124250/photo/1">Michael Starr shared</a> a screenshot from Ávila’s Instagram story of the meeting where he said she is one of the people he “most admire[s] in the entire world.”
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In February, Ávila <a href="https://archive.is/p8Trd">responded to a post</a> about his meeting with Khaled, saying he does not support terrorists—but added, “I actually despise Israel and the United States,” implying he views them as such.
In February, Ávila widely shared his attendance at Nasrallah’s funeral, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGY-cEKM2KB/?igsh=MXY0d2J1c2xybHVkNg==">posting</a> interviews where he said Nasrallah “shines” as a figure who was “thinking about liberation of the entire world.” In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGYug3_tqVV/?igsh=MWt3MDJ4bDMwZDk2dw==">another video</a>, he called Nasrallah a &#8220;martyr&#8221; who inspires people “all over the world.”
<div id="attachment_930623" style="width: 331px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-930623" class="size-large wp-image-930623" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM-321x576.jpg" alt="Thiago Ávila" width="321" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM-321x576.jpg 321w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM-167x300.jpg 167w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM-768x1377.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM-857x1536.jpg 857w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-06-at-3.30.54%E2%80%AFPM.jpg 1054w" sizes="(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px" />Thiago Ávila posted a video of himself at the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (Photo: screenshot/Instagram)</div>
“Not many people can say that they defeated the greatest evil forces of their generation not only once, but many times like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,” Ávila said in the interview, adding that Lebanon “will never be defeated by the Zionists.”
In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGdirQjRePp/?igsh=ZjR0MGtscWt1MWFl">a third video</a>, Ávila showed himself wearing a keffiyeh among the masses at the funeral, including approaching Nasrallah’s coffin.
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Starr’s post also included a screenshot of Ávila, revealing that he first met Nasrallah when he was 19 years old, adding that he was “so inspired” by watching the terrorist leader speak.
<div id="attachment_930635" style="width: 341px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-930635" class="size-large wp-image-930635" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR-331x576.jpeg" alt="Thiago Ávila" width="331" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR-331x576.jpeg 331w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR-173x300.jpeg 173w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR-768x1335.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR-884x1536.jpeg 884w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GkhbRzdWoAAcGSR.jpeg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px" />Ávila, revealed that he first met Nasrallah when he was 19 years old, adding that he was “so inspired” by watching the terrorist leader speak.</div>
“Wherever there is injustice and colonization, there will be people willing to fight for liberation,” Ávila wrote. “And today, the Lebanese resistance shows that it’s very much alive, reorganizing and inspired to follow the footsteps of its leader. I was very honored and very humbled to be here on this historical moment and to meet such inspiring people.”
In the days after Hamas’ massacre, rape, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians, <a href="https://archive.is/HHzyf">Ávila criticized</a> UN Secretary General António Guterres for calling for the immediate release of the hostages, calling them instead “prisoners” and advocating for them to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
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In a second tweet, Ávila <a href="https://archive.is/DX8ns">accused Israel</a> of committing a “crime against humanity” in its response to Hamas just four days after the massacre.
Ávila did not respond to a request for comment.
An earlier version of this article mistakenly claimed that Liam Cunningham was aboard the Madleen. It has been confirmed that he was not onboard the vessel after it departed.

Thiago Ávila

Greta Thunberg’s Brazilian Flotilla Buddy Attended Funeral Of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah

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Hezbollah

The Israel Defense Forces says it is “prepared” to respond to the so-called “Freedom Flotilla&#8221; en route to Gaza with radical leftist Greta Thunberg. 
“For this case as well, we are prepared,” Brigadier General Effie Defrin, an Israeli army spokesman, told The Times of London. “We have gained experience in recent years, and we will act accordingly.”
The 22-year-old Thunberg and 11 other left-wing activists are currently in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea on a 59-foot boat that is en route to Gaza with what they say is critical humanitarian aid.
&#8220;Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. And no matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the livestreamed genocide,&#8221; <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/greta-thunberg-sets-sail-with-gaza-flotilla-that-aims-to-break-israeli-naval-blockade/">Thunberg said</a> before setting sail.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-torches-bidens-gaza-pier-as-trumps-aid-mission-feeds-a-million-gazans?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=White+House+Torches+Biden%E2%80%99s+Gaza+Pier+As+Trump%E2%80%99s+Aid+Mission+Serves+A+Million+Meals">WHITE HOUSE TORCHES BIDEN’S GAZA PIER AS TRUMP’S AID MISSION SERVES A MILLION MEALS</a>
The <a href="https://maritime-executive.com/article/ngo-launches-second-attempt-to-sail-to-gaza-without-its-damaged-ship">United Kingdom-registered</a> vessel, the Madleen, departed from Catania, Sicily on June 1, and will attempt to challenge an Israeli sea blockade.
The vessel plans to arrive on June 7, though it is unlikely that the IDF will allow the boat anywhere near Gaza.
French member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan, is also on board.
This is the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s second attempt to sail to Gaza. Its last, larger vessel was attacked and disabled before arriving in Malta to pick up Thunberg last month. It was later reportedly towed to Libya. The group accuses the IDF of the attack, though the IDF has not taken responsibility.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-u-s-backed-gaza-aid-centers-see-chaos-thank-you-america-cheers-and-500k-meals-on-day-one?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=WATCH%3A+U.S.-Backed+Gaza+Aid+Centers+See+Chaos%2C+%E2%80%98Thank+You+America%E2%80%99+Cheers%2C+And+500K+Meals+On+Day+One">WATCH: U.S.-BACKED GAZA AID CENTERS SEE CHAOS, ‘THANK YOU AMERICA’ CHANTS, AND 500,000 MEALS ON DAY ONE</a>
Unlike its last mission, the flotilla has been publicly broadcasting its location to drum up publicity, even posting videos claiming that a drone had visited it.
“There’s a drone on top of our ship,” <a href="https://x.com/turkiyetodaycom/status/1930003984833806398">Thiago Avila</a>, another passenger said in a video. “If this is an attack, we need your support.”
Avila was in attendance at the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-843498">The Jerusalem Post </a><a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-843498">reported</a>.
The flotilla <a href="https://x.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1930017451041009863">later said</a> the drone was part of the Hellenic Coast Guard.
The activist passengers hail from several countries including Germany, Spain, France, Brazil, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Sweden. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gazans-flood-the-streets-to-protest-hamas-as-idf-operations-intensify?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Gazans+Flood+The+Streets+To+Protest+Hamas+As+IDF+Operations+Intensify">GAZANS FLOOD THE STREETS TO PROTEST HAMAS AS IDF OPERATIONS INTENSIFY</a>
Thunberg, known for her long history of dramatic publicity stunts, was mocked by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-GA) who posted “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” on X.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-condemns-sen-grahams-implicit-green-light-for-israeli-attack-on-greta-thunberg-gaza-aid-flotilla/?emci=6f0c2a5a-e53f-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&amp;emdi=b56bbfdf-e73f-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&amp;ceid=346760">called</a> Graham’s post as “inhumane and reckless” and said it “could be interpreted by Israel as a green light for more violence against unarmed civilians.”
The small vessel’s attempt to deliver food, diapers, medical supplies, and other aid comes as the Trump administration-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered more than 7 million meals to Gazans, according to the organization.
The group has been tasked with implementing President Trump&#8217;s<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-humanitarian-aid-delivered-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Sends+Aid+To+Gaza.+Israel+Will+Not+Distribute+It."> aid initiative</a>, designed to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches Gazan civilians while preventing Hamas from seizing supplies — a problem that has persisted since the war began following the group’s October 7, 2023, massacre.
An earlier version of this article mistakenly claimed that Liam Cunningham was aboard the Madleen. It has been confirmed that he was not onboard the vessel after it departed.

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IDF Says It’s ‘Prepared’ To Deal With Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla En Route To Gaza

You recall Greta Thunberg when she was a not-particularly-cute child, and we weren&#8217;t allowed to make jokes about her not being particularly cute because she was a child.
Well, now she&#8217;s 22 years old, so I can say whatever the hell I want about her: She is an obnoxious brat. She was always obnoxious.
Thunberg first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight; she said she stopped talking, stopped eating, and lost 22 lbs. over it at age 11.
Instead of going to school and getting the treatment she probably deserved, her father got her treatment, took her out of school, and put her on camera repeatedly. He said, “She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest and be happy.”
She has spent the last ten years gallivanting around the globe and protesting. She started with climate change, where she famously lectured all the adults for not doing enough, in her humble opinion, to stop the world from getting warmer.
Just kidding, she wasn’t humble, she was obnoxious.
But it was that very obnoxiousness that endeared her to the Left-wing media machine, which finds small children saying idiotically reductive things to be wise and useful.
In 2018, she yelled at the adults like a brat, “My message is that we’ll be watching you.  &#8230; You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. &#8230; We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
Now that she’s 22, she still dresses like a little girl and cosplays as a teenager, but now she’s graduated to the new Leftist radical cause of the day: standing for terrorists in the Gaza Strip. 
This Swedish truant who still hasn’t graduated college is now heading for Gaza in a boat – a boat reminiscent of the terrorist flotilla from 2010 in which friends of Hamas sent a set of ships to Gaza laden with goods that would immediately have gone to support the terrorist group. They were offered passage at Ashdod, an Israeli port, and turned it down, fearing that Israel would confiscate the goods, even though Israel had offered to coordinate any aid with the UN. Many of the participants in that flotilla attacked Israeli troops attempting to stop it, and some even grabbed weapons of the Israelis; ten Israeli soldiers were wounded. Seven of the nine people on the ships killed in response by Israeli troops had openly issued wishes to die as martyrs.
Anyway, back to our moronic story – Greta’s pleasure cruise. Our Pippi Longstocking wannabe heroine has now loaded onto the Madleen ship, launched by the so-called Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Thunberg herself has taken the lead, calling to “dismantle Zionism” – which, for the record, means the forcible killing of millions of Jews, who currently live in an actual, not fictional state, called Israel.
A few months ago she declared, “What are we going to do? We will crush Zionism.”
Thunberg has been joined by propagandists from the Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera, as well as an actor from &#8220;Game of Thrones.&#8221; They say they’re trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, even though Israel has actually taken over the distribution of humanitarian aid directly, thus breaking Hamas’ stranglehold over the Palestinian population, who are now free to actually receive aid without having to worry about having it stolen directly by Hamas.
One of the big problems with the UN is they worked for Hamas. And so all the aid that was going in was being hijacked by Hamas. Hamas was then taking it and using it themselves, or they would sell it back to the Palestinians at inflated rates to pay for their terror tunnels. What&#8217;s happening right now is that Palestinians are actually beginning to get aid, and it&#8217;s breaking the Hamas stranglehold over the Palestinian population. It&#8217;s actually creating the possibility of a true Palestinian uprising against Hamas.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2210?elementPosition=6&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
So what Thunberg is doing is actually part of a gigantic propaganda effort launched by the exact same forces that lied earlier this week by claiming that Israel had shot dozens of people at an aid distribution center, a complete and total lie parroted by the Left-wing media.
Thunberg has suddenly decided that climate change is soooo tiring and boring and that Hamas is super-hot right now.It’s all part of her broader crusade to get herself arrested so she can attain the same levels of attention she used to when she was a child actress.
Now, this sort of stuff — taking a boat to Gaza — is super silly and kind of funny — and stupid. I’m hoping that this whole thing turns into one of the world’s most entertaining reality specials, with the engine of the boat breaking so that we get the world’s most ridiculous version of &#8220;Gilligan’s Island.&#8221;
The problem is that Greta, despite the hair, doesn’t really carry it forward the way Marianne did, and the whole crew of the USS Minnow has been replaced by smelly environmentalists who really, really hate Jews. And just like the USS Minnow, they may be stuck wherever they land for years at a time, because none of these people are going to make a radio out of a coconut.
The real question here is the same as always: Why is it that we can almost certainly identify – always! – climate change activists as fans of Hamas, one of the least environmentally-friendly groups on the planet? 
The answer is simple: the Omnicause. These people are simply interested in “fighting the system,” by which they mean capitalism and the West, which was always Greta’s thing. She’s been saying a version of this crap since 2019, when she released a book and somehow, incredibly, became even more obnoxious, saying, “What we refer to as ‘normal’ is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
These people hate the West. And so I wish them a pleasant three-hour tour. And if they land on the shores of some uncharted desert isle, I hope that they land without their keffiyehs, so that they can see how the Hamas locals treat them without their terror solidarity insignias – how Westerners are treated when they end up among the actual barbarians they believe they support.
This is part of a broader movement that actually is quite dangerous, because when the West begins to parrot the absolute lies of terror groups, that has consequences. When you continue to say the word “genocide,” when a genocide never has applied in this area, you are fomenting the same language that leads to a raising of the temperature.
And when you raise the temperature this much, people are going to get violent.

Greta Goes To Gaza

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Greta Thunberg. Remember her? “How dare you go? How dare you!”
She&#8217;s a cretinous little dweeb with the brains of a kumquat. She always was, but we weren&#8217;t allowed to say it because she wasn&#8217;t a teen; she was a child. You can&#8217;t attack a child.
Well, she&#8217;s now been 18 for three years, so we can, indeed, say it.
She was trotted out for years as some sort of moral exemplar because she was under 18, and she mouthed nasty little platitudes about how her elders had ruined the world: “We will hold you accountable.” “How dare you!”
She was treated as a political Joan of Arc. The whole world trembled at her supposed moral superiority, as she called for the impoverishment of nearly all of humanity in the name of the Earth becoming incrementally warmer but slightly less quickly, supposedly.
In reality, Thunberg was always a child-sized Trojan Horse for anti-Western radicalism, socialism, and deindustrialization.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1962-the-greta-thunberg-idiots-revolt-member-exclusive">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
Now the mask is off, and it&#8217;s instructive. On Thursday, Thunberg showed up in a protest in Malmo, Sweden. What was being protested? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-singer-ordered-to-stay-in-her-hotel-as-thousands-of-pro-palestine-protesters-swarm-streets-outside" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A singer</a> for the Eurovision contest from Israel.
That singer&#8217;s name is Eden Golan, a 20-year-old young woman — younger than Greta Thunberg — who was just singing a song in a dumb contest they hold in Europe every year that&#8217;s similar to “American Idol.” Her song was called “Hurricane,” which is largely about the reaction of Israelis to the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7. 
And she was booed inside the hall. 
Golan’s presence drew thousands of people to protest, including Thunberg, who showed up wearing a keffiyeh, a symbol of solidarity with terrorism.
Thunberg showed up and explained how she was standing against destruction of the environment — and also the Jews, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250321318/in-sweden-tens-of-thousands-demonstrate-against-israel-participating-in-eurovisi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “Once again, young people are leading the way, showing the world how we should react to this.”
12,000 people showed up to yell about the Jews because a Jewish singer performed at an event in Sweden. It’s no surprise it happened in Malmo, which is about 25% Muslim.
In fact, if you flash back to 2022, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-says-integration-immigrants-has-failed-fueled-gang-crime-2022-04-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported:</a> 
<blockquote>Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime. Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured. The violence erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Quran at a rally and sought to hold more in several immigrant-dominated neighborhoods.</blockquote>
Radical Muslims are quite prevalent in Sweden, which is why Jews are not in Malmo. Malmo has basically become a no-go zone for Jews for a reason. One of the chants from the crowd was “Sinwar, we will not let you die,” a reference to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, who planned the massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7 and is currently hiding in terror tunnels, allegedly surrounded by 15 hostages in the hope that they will protect him from death.
These protesters want Sinwar to survive because they&#8217;re not just against the war in Gaza, they are in solidarity with Hamas.
That is who Thunberg was marching with.
The army of losers is very large in the West. It includes drag queens who go on BBC to explain they are canceling their Eurovision watch party in order to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas. 
These global losers are fans of Palestinian terrorism who cannot succeed in a meritocracy and emigrate en masse to Europe where they form entire population centers that do not participate in the Western system. They hate the system in which they are given welfare and education and in which they are largely unsuccessful; they are useless socialists who have performed zero service and public value their entire lives but are very angry at capitalism.
People like Greta Thunberg and people who feel marginalized because of their bizarre sexual fetishes and rage against a traditionalist machine are marching together in Malmo against — surprise!— the Jews.
But the Jews here are really just a stand-in for the West because these anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists believe that the Jews control the West. Their entire theory of the world is predicated on an evil belief that failure inherently means victimization, and that success inherently means exploitation.
And because the Jews are disproportionately successful, this means they are disproportionately exploitative. And the United States, according to an argument made by critical race theorists about white people, is where white people built the system for the benefit of whites, which is why whites are so darn successful.
The problem, of course, is that there are other groups that are very successful who are not white. Jews, historically not categorized as white, now have been included in that rubric.
If Jews are disproportionately successful, then they can certainly not be victims, this mob argues. Their argument is that Jews built the system for the benefit of the Jews, and so it&#8217;s perfectly appropriate to beat Jews in the streets or try to mob a Jewish singer on a continent where Jews were slaughtered by the millions a couple of generations ago.
After all, the system has to be destroyed.
This is an army of losers. Losers of the world, unite! That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching in Malmo. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching on America&#8217;s college campuses. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;re watching in large precincts of the Democratic National Committee.
It&#8217;s an army of losers, a coalition of losers.
The Jews are just a convenient excuse — and they are just the tip of the spear.
This is the ugliest manifestation of hatred for the West.

Screenshot. Greta Thunberg in Sweden.

The Greta Thunberg Idiots’ Revolt

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Eurovision Israeli singer Eden Golan said she’s been “ordered to stay in her hotel room” in Sweden due to the “thousands of pro-Palestine protesters” outside, including activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greta-thunberg-detained-by-police-twice-at-same-climate-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greta Thunberg</a>.
In a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13400717/Israeli-Eurovision-singer-Eden-Golan-ordered-stay-hotel-room-security-team-thousands-pro-Palestine-protesters-including-keffiyeh-wearing-Greta-Thunberg-gather-Malmo-calling-excluded.html">Daily Mail report</a>, Golan said she was ordered not to leave her hotel room by “Israel&#8217;s national security agency Shin Bet” — except for during her performances — because outside the hotel in Malmo were thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. It comes ahead of the second semi-final of the 2024 competition, the outlet noted.
Among the anti-Israel protests was climate activist Thunberg, who was seen wearing a keffiyeh — the traditional scarf that has become a symbol for Palestinians — as the protesters called on Golan to be excluded from the annual singing competition, the outlet noted.
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Israeli Eurovision singer Eden Golan is ordered to stay in her hotel room by her security team as thousands of pro-Hamas “protesters” including keffiyeh-wearing Greta Thunberg gather in Sweden’s notorious no-go zone in Malmo, calling for her to be excluded <a href="https://t.co/gsqtgaaWKi">https://t.co/gsqtgaaWKi</a>
— A.C. Spollen (@ACSpollen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACSpollen/status/1788655787553820745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
In one clip, Thunberg told reporters, &#8220;Young people are leading the way and showing the world how we should react to this.”
However, when pressed why she was there with the protesters, she only would say it was &#8220;good&#8221; as the march took place, the outlet noted.
Some of the banners that could be seen at the protest included one that read, “Welcome to Genocide song contest” and another, “stop using Eurovision to whitewash Israeli crimes,” the report noted.
Lead singer of Five for Fighting, John Ondrasik, also shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/johnondrasik/status/1788670373325935098">post</a> on X about the protests and Golan not being able to leave her hotel room. Following the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 against Israel, Ondrasik wrote the song “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJXo2Gn-ww">OK</a>” and has called out artists who have been silent amid the anti-Semitism raging on college campuses.
“Eden Golan, our fellow artist, cannot leave her hotel room in fear for her life because she is Jewish,” Ondrasik&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/johnondrasik/status/1788670373325935098">post </a>read. “This is 2024. I call on every artist to join me in condemning publicly this despicable act of hate. This is a time for choosing. Your silence is complicit.”
Golan previously told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/israel-spotlight-eurovision-semi-final-pro-palestinian-protests-loom-2024-05-08/">Reuters</a> she hopes her performance can bring some unity. &#8220;It&#8217;s a super important moment for us, especially this year,&#8221; the Israeli singer said. &#8220;I feel honored to have the opportunity to be the voice of my country.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-has-gone-mad-five-for-fighting-lead-singer-john-ondrasik-on-why-he-wrote-ok-we-are-not-ok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘The World Has Gone Mad’: Five For Fighting Lead Singer John Ondrasik On Why He Wrote ‘OK (We Are Not OK)’</a>

Eden Golan

Israeli Singer ‘Ordered To Stay In Her Hotel’ As ‘Thousands of Pro-Palestine Protesters’ Swarm Streets Outside

Israeli Singer Eden Golan ‘Ordered To Stay In Her Hotel' As Thousands of Pro-Hamas Protesters Swarm Streets Outside

Protests

Right now, it feels as though the world is in a state of constant revolution. The reason for this is because our political movements, particularly on the Left, have decided to worship the revolutionaries.
Example A: Greta Thunberg. 
Greta Thunberg, 21-years-old, is not an important person. There&#8217;s nothing about Greta Thunberg that suggests she knows anything about absolutely anything. She&#8217;s not an environmentalist expert and she is not an expert on foreign policy. Yet she has been held up as a model for our times, a person we all ought to follow, a sort of Joan of Arc when it comes to the moral conscience of the West.
Why? Because she&#8217;s a revolutionary and the West now worships revolutionaries. 
Over the weekend, she was arrested not once, but twice on the same day for blocking traffic at a climate protest to shout about a climate emergency. She explained, “We are in a planetary emergency.”
Thunberg is worshiped by the Left for this sort of nonsense.
But — she&#8217;s not the only one. There is a worship for the revolution when it comes to the Left. The revolutionaries must always be treated with extraordinary deference.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1942-did-joe-biden-just-save-hamas-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
When it was Black Lives Matter, rioters were burning down cities, doing $2 billion in damages — the single most damaging spate of riots in American history. The entire legacy media treated this not as though it was something deeply wrong and actually evil — it&#8217;s evil to burn down somebody else&#8217;s shop in the name of racial justice — but rather, as a group of people who are just a little bit too passionate. It was just that they were too committed to the cause.
You can see this now in the treatment of the pro-Hamas protesters who are showing up at Democratic events. The pro-Hamas protesters are, in fact, emissaries of an evil ideology. If you are standing for an actual genocidal terror group who wishes to impose Sharia law on its own citizens and to murder everyone else, you&#8217;re the bad guy.
But the Left has treated them with extraordinary deference. The New York Times published an entire piece titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza-protesters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Gaza Protesters Are Challenging Democratic Leaders</a>.”
The normal way a decent civilization would treat these people would be as moral outcasts. It would shun them. It would say, “You don&#8217;t know what the hell you&#8217;re talking about. You&#8217;re moral idiots, and you are standing for a group of people who are legitimately the worst people on planet Earth. You&#8217;re trying to preserve a terrorist group to continue running the Gaza Strip after subjecting that entire area to their own predations.”
But the New York Times reported: 
<blockquote>In Detroit, a congressman’s holiday party devolved into chaos and a broken nose after demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza appeared with bullhorns. In Fort Collins, Colo., the mayor abruptly ended a meeting during which protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza glued their hands to a wall.
And in places as disparate as a historic church in South Carolina and Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, President Biden has been heckled and drowned out by demonstrators objecting to his support for Israel. Protests over the Biden administration’s handling of the war are disrupting the activities of Democratic officials from city halls to Congress to the White House, complicating their ability to campaign — and, at times, govern — during a pivotal election year.</blockquote>
The New York Times is not saying these protesters are wrong or bad, which they are. They&#8217;re both wrong and bad. Instead, the Times are saying Biden should take more stock of these protesters.
Who are these protesters? They&#8217;re the kinds of people who chanted “Death to America” in Michigan.
These are the protesters who the legacy media and the Biden administration are suggesting ought to dictate foreign policy in Gaza. The Biden administration is catering to those protesters and their friends.
Why? Why are they catering to the radicals in their own party? It turns out the vast majority of Americans don&#8217;t like any of this. So why exactly are they catering to them?
To understand that, you have to understand the theory of continuous revolution.
Effectively speaking, the Democratic Party, which now represents the Left in the United States, has adopted Chairman Mao’s theory of continuous revolution. That theory is rooted originally in a Marxist revision of Hegelian dialectic.
To really simplify the broad perception of the philosopher Hegel, it’s the basic idea that history progresses through contradiction; you have a thesis and an antithesis (a response to the thesis), and then a synthesis of the two ideas.
That synthesis starts to fall apart and turns into a thesis, an antithesis, and then a synthesis again. So history progresses through contradiction. Hegel meant this descriptively. He would say one country would represent one idea and a second country would represent a second idea. They would go to war and then they would make peace, and out of that would come a new synthesis. For example, out of a 30-Years-War between Catholic countries and Protestant countries would come the Peace of Westphalia.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels extended that theory into the realm of economics. They suggested that capitalism carried the seeds of its own destruction because capitalism was exploitative of the poor — which is false.
Their theory was that capitalism would impoverish the poor, and then the poor would rise up against capitalism. Capitalism was the thesis, the labor movement was the antithesis, and the synthesis would be socialism and eventually communism. That was the basic idea Marx and Engels put forward.
There&#8217;s one problem: What happens when you&#8217;ve reached the synthesis the Left actually likes? The Hegelian theory would suggest there will be an antithesis that rises and goes to war with the thesis. But if you’re the Left and you’ve won, what do you do now? You&#8217;re stuck.
That was the problem Chairman Mao discovered. He had fostered a communist revolution in China, and then became the boss. He ran the entire country with an iron fist. But according to Hegelian dialectics, there should be a movement that could theoretically threaten him, and from that threat would emerge a new movement.
So what did he do? He posited the theory of continuous revolution. That theory was that the party itself could embody all forms of revolution. There would be new revolutions — thesis, antithesis, and synthesis — but all would happen within the communist party structure. So <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said</a>, “Opposition and struggle between ideas of different kinds constantly occur within the Party; this is a reflection within the Party of contradictions between classes and between the new and the old in society. If there were no contradictions in the Party and no ideological struggles to resolve them, the Party&#8217;s life would come to an end.”
In other words, the only way to retain absolute power was to encompass everything. The thesis and the antithesis? The party was bigger than both. All of this would happen inside the party, and this is why he encouraged younger members of the party to actually beat older members of the party to death. This is why he encouraged some good communists to kill other good communists during the Cultural Revolution.
What does this mean now? It means that if you are the Left and you wish to retain power, you have to pay continuous homage to the revolutionaries in your own party.
The thesis is Joe Biden. The antithesis is the pro-Hamas protesters, and the synthesis is a policy that effectively hands more power to Hamas.
The thesis is law and order. The antithesis is riots in the major cities. The synthesis is worship of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The thesis is normal environmentalists. The antithesis is Greta Thunberg sitting at a traffic stop and blocking traffic. And the synthesis is going to be a Green New Deal.
That&#8217;s the idea of the Democratic Party. The revolution will constantly be encompassed inside the party, inside the Left-wing movement.
All that is needed to make this happen is a little bit of celebrity cover for the revolution. You just need major politicians or major celebrities to repeat the nostrums of the revolutionaries every so often.
And then you will reach synthesis.

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