Greta Thunberg has sparked massive outrage after yelling ‘f*** Israel and f*** Germany‘ while cackling at a ‘Palestine and climate movement solidarity’ rally.
The climate activist was reportedly speaking at a rally held in the city of Mannheim on Friday that was organised by the Zaytouna group.
It was held in the city’s main market square, where Thunberg, 21, was heard laughing as she shouted the expletives, which the crowd cheered and clapped at.
A spokesperson for the city said that over 700 people attended, adding 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,’ Conservative regional parliamentary party leader Manuel Hagel told the Jerusalem Post.
Hagel added that Thunberg was moving ‘very consciously in close proximity to antisemitism.’
Thunberg has a long history of civil disobedience.
Greta Thunberg, 21, sparked massive outrage after yelling ‘f*** Israel and f*** Germany ‘
Thunberg has previously come under fire for her pro-Palestine stance by Jewish groups
Greta Thunberg and German activist Hassan Ã-zbay (L) speak at a solidarity with Palestine event in Mannheim, Germany
Thunberg, who was a central figure in the global movement calling for action on climate change, has been outspoke in her support for Palestine ever since the Israeli invasion of Gaza
People who attended the event in Germany turned on the lights on their phones to show solidarity
A man waves a Palestine flag at a solidarity with Palestine
Thunberg, 21, was heard laughing as she shouted the expletives, which the crowd cheered and clapped at
Earlier this year, she was taken away by police as they fired 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 onto a motorway in The Hague.
Footage shows Thunberg and others being sprayed with water after police deployed a cannon before removing the group of about 50 demonstrators.
More XR activists also blocked another road, near the building of the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, as well as a lane on the local motorway.
She was also taken into police custody a month earlier after she spoke as an Extinction Rebellion protest in Helsinki in June.
Thunberg, speaking at the massive rally while wearing a keffiyeh, a piece of clothing associated with Palestinian resistance, was taken to a police bus, according to local media, after she spoke.
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 come under fire for her pro-Palestine stance by Jewish groups.
The German branch of climate movement Fridays for Future has also distanced itself from her.
Greta Thunberg was taken away by police as they fired a water cannon at demonstrators protesting against fossil fuels in the Netherlands earlier this year
She was also taken into police custody at an Extinction Rebellion event in Finland, Helsinki
Ms Thunberg takes part in a march for climate and justice in Amsterdam in November 12 2023
Thunberg had accused ‘the people in power of not listening’ to the ‘voices of those who are being oppressed’ in the Gaza Strip during her speech in front of tens of thousands
She spoke out at an event held at climate protest in Amsterdam in November last year, where she urged ‘ceasefire now’ while wearing a Palestinian black and white scarf.
She had accused ‘the people in power of not listening’ to the ‘voices of those who are being oppressed’ in the Gaza Strip during her speech in front of tens of thousands of climate demonstrators.
Her outburst marked ‘the end of Greta Thunberg as a climate activist,’ said Volker Becker, the president of the German-Israel Society DIG, adding that ‘from now: Israel hater is the main job’ for the Swedish activist.
At the time, Luisa Neubauer, head of the German chapter of the Fridays for Future movement, said Ms Thunberg was ‘extraordinarily reflective and far-sighted’ in the past but that the German branch will now have to examine ‘with whom we still have a basis to work based on common values’.
‘It is obvious that for many global organisations, global realities diverge when it comes to Israel and Palestine. But that does not justify disinformation,’ she added.
