{"id":2383625,"date":"2024-12-26T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/animosity-against-jews-shows-greta-thunbergs-extremism\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T11:59:39","slug":"animosity-against-jews-shows-greta-thunbergs-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/animosity-against-jews-shows-greta-thunbergs-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Animosity Against Jews Shows Greta Thunberg\u2019s Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanimosity-against-jews-shows-greta-thunbergs-extremism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Greta Thunberg, formerly a prominent figure in\u2063 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youth-protest-group-inspired-by-greta-thunberg-disbands-accuses-itself-of-racism\/\" title=\"Youth Protest Group Inspired By Greta Thunberg Disbands, Accuses Itself Of Racism\">climate change movement<\/a>, has come under scrutiny for \u200dher vocal opposition to Israel\u2064 in the wake of the October 2023\u200c hamas attacks on Israeli civilians.\u200b The now 21-year-old Thunberg has\u200c publicly called for the &#8220;crushing&#8221;\u2062 of Zionism and accused Israel of genocide. Her controversial remarks intensified during a recent rally\u200d in\u200c Mannheim, Germany, where she \u2064used profanity against Israel and criticized the German government&#8217;s support for it. <\/p>\n<p>Thunberg&#8217;s anti-israel stance has been consistent;\u2064 she participated in\u200d protests advocating\u2063 for the severance\u2064 of ties between institutions and Israel,\u2064 labeling it a &#8220;genocidal, apartheid state.&#8221; She has\u200c faced backlash for her comments, with\u2063 organizations like StopAntiSemitism designating\u200b her\u2062 as &#8220;Anti-Semite of\u2062 the Week&#8221; for \u200bher alleged promotion of anti-Jewish \u2063sentiment. Despite her claims of condemning Hamas&#8217;s attacks, her actions have sparked accusations \u200bof antisemitism, a \u2064distinction that is reportedly nuanced but \u2064increasingly \u200bblurred in\u200c her \u200brhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash\u2064 emphasizes\u2062 a growing concern regarding the intersection of climate activism \u2062and anti-Israel sentiments, especially within prominent organizational frameworks like the UN.\u2064 As the dialog continues, Thunberg&#8217;s alignment with such sentiments raises questions \u2062about her\u2063 priorities and the \u200bbroader implications for social\u2063 causes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Greta Thunberg, once the darling of the climate change movement, has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/pbr6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed herself<\/a> as virulently anti-Israel, which should make her a pariah in any legitimate social or political cause. Since the October 2023 Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians, including children and infants, Thunberg, now 21 years old, has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1728485021978427894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for<\/a> &ldquo;crushing Zionism&rdquo; and repeatedly accused Israel of &ldquo;genocide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Her latest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/09\/world-news\/greta-thunberg-bursts-into-laughter-as-she-declares-f-k-israel-at-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">episode<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mi59G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">malevolence<\/a> was on display earlier this month in Mannheim, Germany, when she publicly cursed out the nations of Israel and Germany. She targeted the German government with public <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v5xfe2q-greta-thunberg-sparks-controversy-over-alleged-anti-israel-remarks-at-germa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profanity<\/a> over its <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redstreamnet\/status\/1843336861739307035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support<\/a> for the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg&rsquo;s anti-Israel expression was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1728485021978427894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not a one-off<\/a> for her. Immediately following the massacre of Israelis by Hamas last year, Greta stood against Israel, the victim. Last September, she was arrested during a protest at Copenhagen University organized by Students Against the Occupation that demanded the school cut off all ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In May at Stockholm University, she urged the same by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/15\/us-news\/greta-thunberg-named-antisemite-of-the-week-by-jewish-advocacy-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a>, &ldquo;We demand that the Stockholm University administration cut all ties, agreements and collaborations with the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel.&rdquo; She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KW83El-Vaa4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protested<\/a> Eurovision for allowing an Israeli singer to participate in a singing contest.<\/p>\n<p>Greta has not escaped blowback for this behavior. Last September, the group StopAntiSemitism named her the &ldquo;Anti-Semite&rdquo; of the week and <a href=\"https:\/\/stopantisemitism.org\/as-week\/greta-thunberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>, &ldquo;she has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred.&rdquo; After this month&rsquo;s episode, the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/09\/world-news\/greta-thunberg-bursts-into-laughter-as-she-declares-f-k-israel-at-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that &ldquo;someone should remind Greta that Israel is a global leader in solving climate challenges,&rdquo; as though that would somehow get her to rethink her priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1715794129144197535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> she is against the &ldquo;horrific attacks by hamas&rdquo; (sic) and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1715355502337499332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied<\/a> knowledge about an antisemitic symbol she included in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/tools-and-strategies\/what-anti-israel-anti-semitic-anti-zionist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to the Anti-Defamation League, there are nuanced differences among being anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic. At a minimum, Greta has been flirting with the latter.<\/p>\n<p>That comports with many others in the climate change movement, spearheaded by the United Nations &mdash; a bastion of animus against Israel and Jewish people. One of many examples was last year&rsquo;s COP28 climate summit in Dubai, where I listened to a group of panelists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2023\/12\/07\/cop28-panel-blames-israel-and-the-u-s-for-palestinian-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excoriate Israel<\/a> with zero mention of the Hamas massacre of Israelis just weeks prior.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg has been operating in an adult world starting as a young teenager. In 2018, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presented<\/a> at the UN climate summit in Poland. The following year, she famously sailed across the Atlantic Ocean without fossil fuels (except for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2019\/07\/31\/climate-kid-greta-protesting-oil-on-yacht-made-of-hydrocarbons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">materials and construction<\/a> of the boat), to go before the UN General Assembly in New York, where she gave her petulant &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/teen-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-delivers-scathing-speech-u-n-n1057621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How dare you<\/a>&rdquo; speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bratty, obnoxious behavior from teens is nothing unique to Thunberg, and all of us can look back at cringe-worthy moments of our youth. Greta was given a pass because she was a celebrity youngster whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-climate-agenda-wont-replace-jobs-it-seeks-to-kill-separate-ap-wapo-fact-checks-suggest\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Won\u2019t Replace Jobs It Seeks To Kill, Separate AP, WaPo Fact-Checks Suggest\">climate change agenda<\/a> is embraced by the UN, most of the global media, and governments the world over.<\/p>\n<p>Her global climate fame earned her TIME magazine&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2019\/12\/11\/gretas-person-of-the-year-but-her-climate-kids-are-emotional-and-vacuous-at-cop-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Person of the Year<\/a>&rdquo; in 2019, which placed her in the pantheon of numerous historic figures, for good or ill, including American presidents, other heads of state, heroes, and mass-murderers. The magazine just named President-elect Donald Trump its <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7201547\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 recipient<\/a>, a second time for him.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy media outlets such as TIME are no longer the standout, influential publications they were in the 20th century. Instead, TIME is a salient example of media that has jettisoned genuine journalism to become a just another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2019\/12\/23\/exploiting-greta-and-the-teens-for-climate-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">organ<\/a> for left-of-center politics. Thunberg&rsquo;s Person-of-the-Year honor was more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">magazine promoting climate change policies<\/a> than her as a newsmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, I wrote an empathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2020\/12\/01\/movie-review-i-am-greta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a> of the Hulu documentary &ldquo;I Am Greta,&rdquo; about her challenging life and rapid rise to international fame. I felt sorry for young Greta, who is on the autism spectrum and continually morose. I believe she was being exploited by the climate change industry to further its anti-freedom, anti-economic growth agenda that empowers politicians and bureaucrats, enriches corporate chieftains and NGO grifters, and manipulates and frightens credulous students of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Now that she&rsquo;s a grown-up, Thunberg has translated her climate stardom to highlight something she cares about more than the planet these days: attacking Israel for responding to the violent, unprovoked aggression by Hamas 14 months ago against unarmed Israeli civilians. At this point, Thunberg is a full hour past her proverbial 15 minutes of fame. I hope she gets genuine help and finds fulfillment. But she doesn&rsquo;t deserve worldwide attention.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit entity that promotes free-market, technological solutions to environment and energy challenges.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Thunberg, once a climate change icon, is now openly anti-Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1150,"featured_media":2383627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/48882848248_df551aac3d_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7053,47399,5235,47398,39273],"class_list":["post-2383625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-climateactivism","tag-extremism","tag-gretathunberg","tag-socialissues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/48882848248_df551aac3d_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383629,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383625\/revisions\/2383629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}