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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.

According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.

In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 119 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Greta has been the one to face all sorts of public backlash and moronic criticism for how she looks. I hope that history remembers her work and commitment to saving human life, for the sake of saving human life.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 86 points 5 days ago (1 children)

History will remember her for being based as hell. Going this hard on Gaza really legitimizes her climate activism as caring about human life. And taking huge personal risks which are not just blocking a highway.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Strong sense of morality of autistic people stays winning

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If it beats out the desire for a clearly structured world or the „revenge of the nerd“ fantasies.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Autism is a land of contrasts

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 19 points 5 days ago

She has never once limited her commitment to human life - let her be remembered for her dedication to saving life.

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

the problem is that she is a white, blonde girl with a cool active (I mean lively) personality, it should have nothing to do with looks.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll be honest. She wasn't that when she started. She was just a kid that became an activist and basically sacrificed her childhood to become the new face of activism

[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hmm, honestly I'm not aware of her beginning, but I assume people were overlooking the "kid" part when judging her ?

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

She's a 22 year old right now. She was doing speeches back from as early as 2018. That put her in front of the stand as young as 15 yo. You saw her speaking and you saw child.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

People will never miss the chance to tear down a woman’s look and dismiss her work. Its a constant of nature.

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 131 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fuck the terrorist state of Israel.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 77 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There's no "two state solution" to this shit. The entire country needs to be abolished and the land given back to Palestine.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Best solution was proposed by Sheldon Cooper, moving Israel to the US

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago

Also, but the US are currently more usefull, in Germany it will affect too much nearby countries which have nothing to do with it, also the territory is too small.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Bing bong theorum

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I think it will be the other way around. The "Riviera" thing is going to happen. Israel will be in charge, together with the US.

There will never be peace though.

[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Even more likely: they displace or kill the entire population and the land and city is left empty for the next century. My case point is northern Cyprus although the scale and brutality of what we are currently witnessing is not comparable.

[–] whereyaaat 5 points 4 days ago

I've been saying this for years.

The proper solution to Israel is to relocate the occupiers to the US, since both countries are pretty much the same, have the same interests, and even engage in the same acts of war.

The problem with this is that Zionists, who are religious nationalists, feel that they are entitled to their "promised land."

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They make me wish there was such a thing as hell

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We can make on hell on earth happen for them with enough support. Inshallah.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

🤲

🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

But it won't be properly hell without zios there.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 63 points 5 days ago

Israel is lashing out emotionally now that they've lost public support. Pathetic, may the entity crumble to dust and Palestine be free.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 71 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Where's that one dipshit from a couple days ago saying everything Greta was doing was just PR performative bullshit? Yeah, this looks like a brilliant clout scheme she's concocting here, dumbass

[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Probably a bot, the Internet is infested at this point. Head over to reddit and half the comments sound the same...

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

There's certainly a new wave of pro-israeli comments I'm seeing lately.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can hope it's a bot but so many true believers popping up or have just been around.

Especially when anything is critical of the west or dems

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're upscaling the hasbara or whatever they call it now

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True but were some here even before that. Especially got a few news mods on lw. Never worked out if that one is a true believer though or not

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

I know, I've been watching. Not like a hawk but enough to keep my reality and expectations in check. I hope.

somewhere on my blocklist that's where

Greta has a backbone of pure steel.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 days ago

Death to the zionist entity and the states who support it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

And then one hears that anti semitism is on the rise like never before and one wonders why that is...

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they will delete her and we have another martyr. That’s all we need to really push them out our lands tbr.

[–] whereyaaat 7 points 4 days ago

Won't happen. If they killed her, they'd get away with it.

Israel is immune to accountability.