Aviram Bellaishe
Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, June 9, 2025
“Even the aid itself – the supposedly humanitarian part of the flotilla – is not free from propaganda.”
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attempted to sail to Gaza as part of an aid flotilla defined as humanitarian, but in practice constituted a distinctly ideological act – a political provocation disguised as compassion.
The boat she sailed on carried no meaningful humanitarian aid, only symbolism – another attempt in the international consciousness space to establish the narrative that Gaza is the sole victim, Israel is the eternal oppressor, and any resistance, even if murderous, is moral if directed against “occupation.”
Thunberg, 22, is that same Earth activist who understands from her experience the need to use narrative to remain in global consciousness, whether it’s “saving the planet” or “liberating Palestine” – especially when it aligns with other groups whose hidden motive stems from hatred and antisemitism, or as some would say, like her, stems from fear of Islam in Europe itself.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out one of the most shocking massacres in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: 1,200 murdered, including babies, women, Israeli Arabs, foreign workers, and Christians. Hamas didn’t just harm Jews. It slaughtered the very idea of tolerance. But in the Progressive Left consciousness, as it has formed in recent decades, there is no room for complexity: the oppressor will forever remain the oppressor, even when slaughtered by the “oppressed.” Progressive movements worldwide – from LGBTQ activists to climate movements – have been absorbed into this ethos. Colonial resistance has become a supreme value, even when its face is a mask for dark theocracy or in Hamas’s name, and even considering the involvement of Gazan civilians and the celebrations of joy heard upon news of the massacre. …SOURCE