Greta Thunberg has sparked mass outrage after shouting “fuck Israel and fuck Germany” while laughing at a “solidarity between Palestine and the climate movement” rally.
The climate activist reportedly spoke at a rally held on Friday in the city of Mannheim and organized by the Zaytouna group.
It took place in the city’s main market square, where Thunberg, 21, was heard laughing as she shouted profanities, which the crowd cheered and applauded.
A city spokesperson said more than 700 people attended and added that the demonstration was peaceful.
But critics said the young activist’s words were far from harmless.
“Mannheim does not need a platform for such dehumanizing positions and our country does not need the presence of people like Greta Thunberg,” said conservative regional parliamentary party leader Manuel Hagel. Jerusalem Post.
Hagel added that Thunberg was “very consciously approaching anti-Semitism.”
Thunberg has a long history of civil disobedience.
Thunberg, 21, sparked mass outrage after shouting ‘fuck Israel and fuck Germany’
Thunberg has previously been criticized for her pro-Palestine stance by Jewish groups.
Greta Thunberg and German activist Hassan Ã-zbay (left) speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Mannheim, Germany
Thunberg, who was a central figure in the global movement calling for action on climate change, has been outspoken in her support for Palestine since the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
People who attended the event turned on their phone lights to show solidarity
A man waves a Palestinian flag in solidarity with Palestine
Thunberg, 21, was heard laughing as she shouted profanities, which the crowd cheered and applauded.
Earlier this year, she was taken away by police while firing a water cannon at demonstrators protesting against fossil fuels in the Netherlands.
The Swedish climate activist protested alongside members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) as they blocked a busy junction leading to a motorway in The Hague.
Footage shows Thunberg and others being doused with water after police deployed a cannon before removing the group of about 50 protesters.
Other XR activists also blocked another road, near the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Economic Affairs building, as well as a lane of the local highway.
She was also detained by police a month earlier after speaking at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Helsinki in June.
Thunberg, who spoke at the mass rally while wearing a keffiyeh, a garment associated with the Palestinian resistance, was taken to a police bus, according to local media, after speaking.
According to Helsinki Police Chief Commissioner Heikki Porola at the time, while the protest was peaceful, arrests were made after protesters refused to leave the area.
Thunberg has previously been criticized for her pro-Palestine stance by Jewish groups.
The German branch of the climate movement Fridays for Future has also distanced itself from it.
Greta Thunberg was taken away by police while firing a water cannon at demonstrators protesting against fossil fuels in the Netherlands earlier this year.
She was also detained by police at an Extinction Rebellion event in Finland, Helsinki.
Thunberg participates in a march for climate and justice in Amsterdam on November 12, 2023
Thunberg accused “people in power of not listening” to the “voices of the oppressed” in the Gaza Strip during her speech to tens of thousands of people.
He spoke at an event held at the climate protest in Amsterdam in November last year, where he urged a “ceasefire now” while wearing a Palestinian scarf in black and white.
He had accused “people in power of not listening” to the “voices of those who are being oppressed” in the Gaza Strip during his speech to tens of thousands of climate protesters.
Her outburst marked “the end of Greta Thunberg as a climate activist,” said Volker Becker, president of the German-Israeli Society DIG, adding that “from now on: hating Israel is the main job” of the Swedish activist.
At the time, Luisa Neubauer, head of the German chapter of the Fridays for Future movement, said Thunberg was “extraordinarily thoughtful and forward-looking” in the past, but that now the German subsidiary will have to examine “with whom we still have a basis to work based on common values.”
‘It is obvious that for many global organizations, global realities diverge when it comes to Israel and Palestine. But that does not justify misinformation,” he added.