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Israel's Backers Are Now Advocating The Assassination Of Greta Thunberg (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”

Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Pretty on-brand for a bunch of fucking fascists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Antisemitism or not, that is just evil

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I gotta say I've gotten scared a few times these past couple of days with so many posts about Greta reaching the front page. Hearing about the boat that she decided to not be on getting attacked, her going there with another boat and them threatening her. And then opening Lemmy and seeing several different posts with her face as the thumbnail just thinking "please, no, don't be bad news" and then being relieved she's not dead, been taken hostage, or anything else bad. We need her.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

She was on a boat that got bombed, survived, and went back out. She has balls of steel, but I fear that she's setting herself up to be a martyr. There has to be some reasonable way for her to headline and lead resistance that doesn't end in her likely overlooked death. The people who her passing would activate are already mostly active.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But don't disagree with killing her, or you'll be accused of being anti-Semitic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Uh, yeah, because that would make you basically hitler. Saying we should protect blonde haired blue eyed youths? How far off the 14 words is that really, dude?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I was asked why I got radicalised. This would've been another event to radicalise me if I wasn't already

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

First murder attempt https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M3R9_AoYjr8?app=desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

“All the world's a stage”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Dude if I were in her position, I'd be shitting bricks. Big ups to her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

This is insane, please protect her. Hopefully she returns to her home for her own safety.

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