To wonder if Greta will acknowledge her blunder?

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Regarding Greta using a photo of emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David on a poster/content slide regarding the suffering of Palestinian prisoners.

She & the affiliated have since edited/rectified but seems to be without any acknowledgement or comment from anyone from her or her team… yet.
AIBU to think that’s quite a major gaffe that warrants acknowledgment from her end?

Age isn’t relevant. I meant maturity

Technically he's starving in the man made famine in Gaza. So it's not wrong.

She won’t , she lives in LALA land , a spiked brat , with very rich parents and nil responsibilities.
I don’t think people even realise she is paid hundreds of thousands for these gigs

Anything to try to abdicate responsibility for her. Remember Gary Lineker didn't actually author the tweet that he apologised unreservedly for retweeting? It went out under her name on her account to her many followers. She has to take responsibility for it.

You know Greta was hanging out with an actual holocaust denier on the flotilla? Care to defend that too?

Not wrong to call him a Palestinian prisoner instead of an Israeli hostage? Are you sure?

It’s not genocide

I think people dislike her because not because they don't think she is in earnest, but because they see her as a kind ofperson who is a fool and so ends up making her causes look foolish. She doesn't really understand the politics, any more than she understood the problems of climate change.

And yet she goes on, freaking out, and admonishing others for not doing so, and in many cases wasting people's time and energy or even putting people in danger.

How is it not? It’s genocide in every single sense of the word. It might not suit your political, religious or just personal persuasions but it’s absolutely genocide, I’m afraid.

Has she shared details of her kidnap and torture yet, or is she still being sketchy about it?

Yeah I don’t think Hamas are starving, thats just for the civilians. I really hope this all ends soon, the suffering is real.

Does it matter if the person suffering is an Israeli or Palestinian? We have lost our humanity when we can dismiss suffering so easily. People may have different ideas of who’s responsible for this shitshow and what should happen next but seeing an emaciated person who’s been starved and forced to dig their own grave should hurt regardless of what their ethnicity or nationality is.

If it doesn’t hit the same for you regardless of where they happened to be born then you have ideology not morality.

I wonder who is bankrolling the "aid" flotilla 🤔🤔

Did Greta’s handler pull the wrong string?

I’m sure she has an unseen handler or strategist who tells her what to say, and when to say it. It’s funny that she went quiet during lockdown, when climate change had been displaced from the panique du jour, and she didn’t even pop up to say “you see, it’s not so bad after all, not being able to travel”.

Such nasty misogynistic language about a young woman from grown ass women, where is all your hatred for the hundreds of spoiled children of celebrities who do nothing but party and drink? She could do that instead, as she has no responsibilities. Instead, she tries to raise awareness about causes that obviously matter to her and your reaction is to call her "an odious creature" "a silly little girl" and other nasty things.
Some of you should take a look in the mirror at yourselves and ask what the hell you are actually contributing to the world apart from spitting poison on an anonymous forum.

I respectfully disagree. As a long time environmental campaigner, I have come across this argument that all current political issues that various activists are engaged with are connected to the environment and must either be campaigned about alongside, accepted ideologically if environmentalism is to be accepted or solved before we're even allowed to campaign on the environment.

It has so often hindered pragmatic environmental campaigns and turned off support.

I have met supposed environmental campaigners who would happily have their ideological omnicause validated at the expense of the actual environment. I consider the UK Green Party to be a prime example of this.

I actually worry that she’s being taken advantage of more than anything. There was a schism over LGBTQ support wasn’t there? I’m not sure if she’s entirely honest with herself she is aligned with some of the views expressed by the Gazan representatives, not sure she’s fully competent. She spent her childhood campaigning instead of learning. It’s not great is it. She’s small and looks childlike and thats why this works, but imo she’s still very much a child, she’s not had a normal childhood but she’s being used as a figurehead. It never even occurred to her that some arabs may not want to be associated with LGBTQ support due to religious and cultural biases.

Her demeanor doesnt exactly endear her to people. Might improve if she stopped acting like a pocket sized dictator 🤣

The UK government concluded in September that it didn’t meet the criteria for genocide. Article 11 of the genocide convention doesn’t include cultural genocide. Palestinians aren’t an ethnic or religious group. They could be considered a national group, but Gaza isn’t Palestine. Furthermore the intent has to be to completely destroy the group as a whole. Not all Palestinians live in Gaza, under the control of Hamas.

Or you could objectively criticise someone’s behaviour without having to resort to cries of ‘misogyny’.

Except that all the Palestinian terrorists (murderers and rapists) released from Israeli prisons in the two exchanges that have taken place during the conflict looked to be in rude health, actually.

In fact, some of them seemed so healthy and full of beans that they celebrated by firing Kalashnikovs into the air. Funny, that.

I just saw Greta’s post in The Times. The image featuring that man with the Star of David supposedly carved into his face is absolutely laughable. There’s no way that’s real.

It reminds me of the teenager who was released from an Israeli prison last year (yes, teenagers can be terrorists too, Hamas starts them young). There’s video footage showing him leaving Israeli custody completely unharmed. Yet shortly after, he appeared in Pan-Arab media with both arms “broken,” and Israel was blamed. Spoiler: the casts were fake. You couldn’t make it up!

https://www.firstpost.com/world/watch-hamas-shenanigans-smashed-teen-terrorist-freed-by-israel-wears-false-cast-on-hands-caught-lying-on-camera-13445422.html/amp

Absolutely agree!

@FiatLuxAdAstrado you have any proof of that? As in photographic like the one she posted?

I feel like she is going to have a very interesting life. It’s been action packed already. She’ll have a good biography, I reckon.

It’s not a genocide@Bundleflower. Just a war don’t like (presumably because the side you hate is winning).

Still, I’d like to see all your concerned posts shining light on the genocide in Sudan, the genocide being committed against Nigeria’s Christians, and the 275 odd Druze women who have been taken hostage by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Do you think you could provide a link?

Wow. The level of projection in your post is insane. I worry for the world with people like you in it.

I don’t ‘hate’ either side. It’s a really bizarre view that seems to be thrown around that if you dare express concern for Palestine that you somehow ‘hate’ Israel. And nobody is ‘winning’ - don’t be such an idiot. Do you own a tv? Do you see the sheer amount of death on both ‘sides’?

It’s genocide. Just because the ‘side’ you support is ‘winning’ by killing more people, it doesn’t mean a win for anybody.

Shame on you. Your language speaks volumes.

Edited to add: just because you clearly ‘hate’ the other ‘side’ it doesn’t mean it isn’t genocide.

Why should she? Honest mistake