German media regrets Greta tribute: “Holy cow”

Published 8 December 2024 at 14.03

Domestic. After Greta Thunberg, 21, criticized Israel, the German media is now openly declaring its distance from the Swede, who, however, does not seem to care.
– Fuck Germany and fuck Israel, she says in a speech in Mannheim, Germany.

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The newspaper Die Welt has had enough of Thunberg's criticism of Germany's arms support for Israel and on Friday published a text in which a well-respected middle-aged liberal with The Hitler lookalike accused the Swede of having gone from being “climate prophet to sacred cow” in the German public.

The liberal started in a speech that Greta Thunberg gave in Mannheim, Germany, where she criticized the unreserved German support for Israel and the German arms deliveries to the Israeli government.

– Fuck Germany, Greta said during the speech and was met with approval shouts from the audience before she added:

– And fuck Israel!

The statement has drawn sharp criticism from the right to the west in German media but in English-language social media the reactions are more mixed.

After the clip from Mannheim was published by an indignant American-Jewish user on X, many express their surprise that the Swede has apparently broken with the establishment that created her.

“She was praised by politicians worldwide and highlighted as a role model and source of inspiration. But when she chose to stand up for Gaza, all the doors were closed, and she was kicked out from country after country,” writes the signature Lina.

“Greta could have easily become a rich liberal voice in the Davos elite, but instead she stands firm and points out the hypocrisy of capitalism, imperialism and the West. RESPECT, GRETA!”, writes user Mitul Kanji.

“She is becoming a REAL revolutionary and the liberals who thought they could turn her into a brunch-eating, mimosa-sipping, action-paralyzed slacker of their own kind are now clutching their pearl necklaces convulsively,” writes one other.

However, not everyone is equally delighted. When a Jewish activist from Iran asks “what the hell happened” to Greta, Christian Democrat EU parliamentarian and former Bulletin profiler Alice Teodorescu Måwe answers X:

“Nothing happened. Everything is connected”.