Local weather activist Greta Thunberg was named “Antisemite of the Week” by a Jewish group following her arrest at a current anti-Israel rally.
Thunberg “has joined the ranks of keffiyeh-clad protesters, openly voicing her disdain for the Jewish state,” the watchdog group StopAntisemitism mentioned Friday, days after Thunberg was amongst these hauled off by Danish police throughout an illustration at Copenhagen College.
“She has sadly remodeled her activism right into a platform for vile Jew-hatred,” the group added.
The 21-year-old was arrested on Sept. 4 whereas protesting with the group College students Towards the Occupation, which referred to as on the college to stop all connections with Israel, together with placing an finish to a number of cross-university scholar applications.
Among the many applications between Copenhagen College and Israel is even a scholar alternate program devoted to Thunberg’s flagship trigger — preventing local weather change, based on StopAntisemitism.
“Sadly, Greta’s hatred of the world’s solely Jewish nation eclipses her love of the setting. Regardless of Israel being a world chief in tackling local weather disasters and speeding to assist in crises worldwide, Greta sides with their homicidal terrorist enemies,” founder Liora Rez mentioned in a press release.
“Her actions communicate louder than her phrases. She claims to care about the way forward for humanity however Greta’s hypocrisy is on full show as she’s been lively in championing Hamas leaders who overtly name for genocide.”
Thunberg’s arrest at Copenhagen College was simply her newest look at an anti-Israel demonstration, a trigger she’s taken up in full drive since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault.
“We demand that the Stockholm College administration lower all ties, agreements and collaborations with the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel,” she wrote after attending an illustration at Stockholm College in Could, the place she was additionally carried away by police.
She joined pro-Palestinians simply days after Oct. 7, posting a photograph of herself holding an indication studying “Stand with Gaza” — alongside a toy octopus, which some learn as an allusion to the Nazis’ antisemitic propaganda visualizing Judaism’s supposed community of management over the world.
Thunberg — who’s autistic — later eliminated the picture and claimed she was “utterly unaware” of the historic use of antisemitic octopus imagery and clarified she meant for it to characterize her feelings.
“The toy within the image is a software usually utilized by autistic folks as a option to talk emotions,” she mentioned.
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