2023-11-13 14:18:33
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has once once more used a climate demonstration to take sides with the Palestinians.
Wearing a traditional black and white Palestinian scarf around her neck, she told a livestreamed rally in Amsterdam on Sunday that the climate movement had a duty to “listen to the voices of those who are oppressed and who fight for peace and justice.”
Many participants reacted outraged
Thunberg then passed the microphone to a woman, also wearing a Palestinian scarf, who claimed that Israel was committing “genocide in my country.” Israel specifically attacks hospitals and civilians, the woman said. Many participants reacted outraged to the accusations. A man jumped onto the stage in front of cameras and shouted into the microphone: “I came here for a climate demonstration, not to hear political views.”
Thunberg, the initiator of the Fridays for Future movement, then called on participants to remain calm and then chanted several times: “No climate justice on occupied land.” (“There is no climate justice on occupied land.”) She was obviously alluding to the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. After a similar action last month, Thunberg had already been criticized for not specifically mentioning the Israeli victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre that left around 1,200 dead. According to the organizers, around 85,000 people took part in the climate demonstration; It was the largest such demonstration in the Netherlands to date.
FFF Austria had already distanced itself from the statements
Fridays For Future Austria had already spoken out clearly once morest anti-Semitism over two weeks ago following anti-Israel statements on the movement’s international Instagram account. “We as FFF Austria stand united once morest anti-Semitism and therefore distance ourselves clearly from the posts on this account. The account is not managed centrally and the content shared is published by individual activists and is not subject to any regulated voting process,” it said in a release . The content would therefore speak neither for the global FFF movement nor for FFF Austria. Individuals or individual accounts might not speak for the entire movement.
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