Pro-Israel Figures Threaten to Kill Greta Thunberg Over Gaza Aid Mission - Quds News Network
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is facing a wave of violent threats by pro-genocide individuals after joining a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

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Pro-Israel Figures Threaten to Kill Greta Thunberg Over Gaza Aid Mission - Quds News Network (2025-06-02)

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>> … Greta Thunberg is facing a wave of violent threats by pro-genocide individuals after joining a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Pro-Israel figures have called for her death or harm as she sails to challenge Israel’s siege on the devastated territory.

>> Republican Senator Lindsey Graham posted on X: “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”…

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    • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
      301·
      4 days ago

      You could check the Wikipedia entry for her, there’s a few accomplishments in there. in any case, I’d say attempting to bring food to starving people under death threats and attempts for doing so makes any of her attempts at doing something, whether the goal is accomplished, far better than whatever you’ve got going on.

      • Colors@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        4 days ago

        I appreciate the help, but this person’s intent was never to actually learn about her.

        I don’t know for sure what the point was. Just more pessimist hand waiving I guess. Maybe underachievement guilt, maybe jealousy, maybe just plain old fashioned misogyny.

        Hyperbole was enough for this transaction.

        Edit: I also wanted to add that I did not insult my friend above. We just don’t agree. I thought some fun over exaggeration would point out the unproductive nature of that line of thinking.

        • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          4 days ago

          I’m just poking the bear, they’re clearly either a Russian/neocon bot, or just an idiot. But I’m seeing if they’ll actually say something besides “asking questions”. I’m curious how far the goal posts are going to be moved without any actual acknowledgement since apparently 30 honors and awards, 17 speeches to governments, 7 publications, and more that I’m not really willing to trudge through to specifically call out, don’t count as accomplishments in their mind.

        • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          The point of activism is to get more people to talk about issues and to bring about change. There’s billions of us. A single person will never be credited with changing the public opinion on anything, that’s not how things work. It’s unfair to ask what she has accomplished because she’s not in a line of work where results are immediate and obvious. And she’s only 22. Millions of people are talking about climate change and other issues thanks to her. Can you name a more (positive)influential person?

          Yes, she’s successful. How many activists can you name over the top of your head? I’m sure the list is short. And most of them don’t get as many headlines written nor do they gather the same amount of people.

          Do you want someone to go around the world and ask each person who inspired them to be better humans? Do you want to ask politicians why they pass each bill and which protest forced them to finally take action? Or how do you propose we quantify her success if not by number of followers and articles written?

            • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              3 days ago

              Ever heard of strength in numbers? You can’t organize shit without people. And these “celebrities” bring people. But sure, you go ahead and organize your friends and she’ll do what she thinks is best too. As long as Gaza gets help, doesn’t really matter who did the most.

                • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  5·
                  3 days ago

                  There isn’t one? Are you joking? What is This then? 1.2 million donated by the foundation as of 2022. Money from awards, prizes and donations. That’s nothing, right?

                  What about This one? Which claims “started in 2018, when 15-year old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate.” They gathered millions of people for strikes and they name her as inspiration. But that’s nothing as well, right?

                  Man, if only everyone in the world was as useless as Greta…

        • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 days ago

          Ok, how about we turn this around since you have very high standards for what you consider an accomplishment. What have you succeeded at?

            • Colors@lemmy.worldEnglish
              9·
              4 days ago

              Alright, olive branch. I understand that it’s never good to put people on a pedestal, but this is a weird thing to pull from current events. What we have is a person, regardless of “credentials” joining a flotilla with the goal of bringing food through a blockade.

              Fame or motive aside, it’s a good thing to want to help people, full stop. We shouldn’t crab brain things like this and pull people back into the bucket.

              We also shouldn’t idolized them, understood.

              BUT

              You also shouldn’t be so fixated on whether people celebrate this person. Let’s just be happy that there are some folks on the front lines fighting injustice, and mad at people that want to stomp that out. It’s really easy.

              Those that can help should help, and those that can’t, or won’t, should just move out of the way. Doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.