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

submitted 1 week ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Fuck all these warmonger assholes.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

It is their right to play. They like to play with discourse using ridiculous reasons to discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in bad faith as it is their goal to intimidate and disconcert.

...Or something along those lines.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It's pretty funny that everyone's response to this is apathy and meming. We're so cooked

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] M137@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] pixelkitty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Pretty on-brand for a bunch of fucking fascists

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