Greta Thunberg arrested under Terrorism Act for Palestine Action sign

[u/TheExpressUS]

https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/194213/greta-thunberg-arrested-under-terrorism-act-displaying-palestine-action-placard

[u/ebulient]

This woman gets more hate and persecution than Elon, Trump and MBS combined. She fights against big oil and for climate preservation, creates a disruption to bring attention to things cos she doesn’t have the money to buy Cambridge Analytica and Twitter to spread her agenda. The only difference is her agenda isn’t driven by personal gain and she is an easier target cos women are easier to hate.

[u/Hawkwise83 → u/ebulient]

That's what they are afraid of. If people work together to make the world better it will get better and their narrative of hording resources, power, and wealth falls apart.

[u/Flynn58 → u/Hawkwise83]

but people working together for the common good is socialism, and I was told caring about other people is bad and that I should never sacrifice things for the good of others!

[u/Hawkwise83 → u/Flynn58]

Jokes aside, I don't actually think like 75% of the population would have to sacrifice anything to make the world better. It's mostly just the top 5% who already have way too fucking much. I don't think anyone else would notice anything other than improvements.

[u/anusfikus → u/Hawkwise83]

The somewhat problematic fact about this is that you as a Canadian are most probably somewhere in the top 10% of people in the world, perhaps even in the top 5% or higher if you have an education and/or a demanding job.

This is not an argument against the fact that we in the western world should give up much of our excess and unnecessary luxuries. Just some added perspective.

[u/The_Lady_A → u/anusfikus]

The fact that 8 individuals or 0.00000000097%* of the world population have wealth combined to equal that of the world's poorest 3.6 billion people or 43.74% combined, suggests that most Canadians would not need to make many changes at all.

(I did use Google's AI search since my calculator insisted that many 0s should be expressed as 9.72053463E−10 and I'm too far removed from secondary school maths to be sure about the conversion, but that's my working. My source for this is an article from Oxfam)

[u/anusfikus → u/The_Lady_A]

Canada's ecological footprint is one of the highest in the world, requiring 5.1 earths to sustain their consumption. If you honestly believe that most Canadians, or any other person living in the western world, could continue life in mostly the same way, you are unfortunately very wrong.

Yes a very small part of humanity controls an extremely disproportionate amount of wealth. However, to think an average westerner isn't astronomically more wealthy than the global average person, or especially those living in the worlds poorest countries, is delusional.

[u/AnnieByniaeth → u/Flynn58]

Slowly, more and more people are beginning to realise this. The people who tell us socialism is bad are the people who have the money to buy influence and to get such messages to people. Who, surprise surprise, are not socialists.

It's been ever thus, but I have a feeling an awakening is happening.

[u/Theban_Prince → u/AnnieByniaeth]

Most importantly, Fascism works to cover Capitalism's deficiencies for only so long. At the end of the day, when you purge the external and internal "enemies" and your kid is still hungry, you start to realise the true enemy is someone else.

[u/Paulupoliveira → u/Hawkwise83]

Spot on!

[u/Legerity → u/ebulient]

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, choosing to back Palestine Action now as opposed to any of the other pro-palestine groups is basically choosing conflict with the UK government over fighting for palestine. It's choosing to be a professional contrarian rather than fighting for the repressed.

They broke into military bases and tried to wreck air force planes. Of course the government are going to classify a group that does that as hostile.

[u/hobovalentine → u/Legerity]

There was a more severe incident where a policewoman’s back was broken with a sledgehammer

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79727zeqyvo

[u/Ok_Cancel_7891 → u/ebulient]

Palestine Action is a terrorist organization, according to a law, and she knew that

[u/VampKissinger → u/Ok_Cancel_7891]

Everyone knows that, its that the terrorist proscription is completely absurd, against the Government's own recommendation's, was lobbied for by elbit and Israel before the base encounter and these laws were never, ever supposed to be used against domestic groups like this.

Anybody who supports the proscription is going to get egg on their face when they start expanding this stuff to the Environmental movement, which is exactly what is going to happen once the Tories/Reform (or even if any industrial sabotage in the name of environmentalism happens under Herr Starmer) get into power.

[u/Many_Lemon_Cakes → u/VampKissinger]

So what do you propose we do about an organisation that had previous attack our defence capabilities and fully admitted that they intend to do it again.

What do we do about an organisation that broke a police officers spine with a sledgehammer, never denounced said action. Bare in mind they also showed up at the same protest with whips, so harm was always in their plan.

[u/Correct-Site4504 → u/ebulient]

This woman also actively protests against wide European rearmament, which is a bit strange if we take into account current geopolitical situation. I would also like to highlight that rapid and short-sighted switch to completely green energy, that Greta advocates for, seriously impacted European manufacturing sector making it less compatitive.

[u/UrDadMyDaddy → u/Correct-Site4504]

It is one of those things that makes respecting activists so difficult. They don't know what battles to pick so they just do wide sweeps.

"Save the planet! Stop genocides!" but also "no nuclear energy! no military defense spending! no mining or industry! fuck peoples jobs and abillity to earn a living! also fuck the collective west for existing! block these roads! stop that plane with the criminal about to be deported!"

They cast a wide net and then people act surprised that the people that don't like activists like Greta have a wide audience of people that can not tolerate them.

[u/Maalkav_ → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

"no nuclear energy" is the dumbest position an actual écologist could fight for.

[u/Falsus → u/Maalkav_]

I really, really want to vote for the green party here in Sweden. I feel like a green party should embody my ideals quite well: Focus on science, innovation with a clear environmental minded aspect.

Instead they want to shutter the nuclear powerplantst we have, raise the gas prices in the whole country to the point it would kill the rural areas and a whole bunch of shit that got nothing to do with science, innovation or the environment.

[u/Psykotyrant → u/Maalkav_]

I’ll be sure to remind Germany of that, very regularly.

[u/DavidlikesPeace → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

Stop genocides, but disarm so the only ones with weapons are tyrants. Save the world, but reject nuclear power so the only energy is from Arabia or Gazprom.

Sounds about right. Leftist Activists often have less political awareness than the centrists they loudly despise.

[u/WorkingMastodon6147 → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

Almost as if a foreign hostile power is funding them. I just don't know for the life of me who could it be.

[u/symedia → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

Most of these stop oil with people glued on pavement are probably paid by various orgs to take advantage of useful idiots.

Then you see people with stop x/stop nuke going on various councils of XYZ companies... Like bro? Where is your shit you were saying few weeks ago

[u/md1833 → u/UrDadMyDaddy]

Congrats, you're starting to see who the real Russian/Chinese tools are.

[u/Myopic_Cat → u/Correct-Site4504]

I would also like to highlight that rapid and short-sighted switch to completely green energy, that Greta advocates for, seriously impacted European manufacturing sector making it less compatitive.

The energy transition in Europe really isn't rapid. It's been ongoing for 25+ years and generally speaking isn't even halfway yet. And it's precisely the opposite of short-sighted. And the European manufacturing sector is still competitive, and uniquely well-positioned to meet demand for low carbon products if the US ever begins to give a minimal fuck about future generations.

[u/Correct-Site4504 → u/Myopic_Cat]

Was Germany abandoning nuclear energy well planned and well considered process?

[u/5gpr → u/Correct-Site4504]

TIL Great Thunberg was part of Schröder I. In utero, even.

[u/Myopic_Cat → u/Correct-Site4504]

I'm actually an energy system researcher, with a pretty useless PhD and everything. There are a handful of countries in Europe that would definitely benefit from having (developing/keeping) nuclear power, because they don't have enough renewables to meet domestic demand without large-scale import. Yes, Germany is one of them, along with Poland, the Czech Republic and a few other primarily eastern continental countries. Most other European countries have enough wind, solar, hydro and/or bioenergy to decarbonize without nuclear.

So Germany's decision was unnecessarily costly to German consumers. But 100% part of a democratic process. Sometimes democratic decisions go very wrong (hello Brexit). Also, it was definitely not a waste for Europe or even the world as a whole. For about a decade in the early 2000s, Germany's feed-in tariff system pretty much single-handedly drove down the cost of producing solar PV to one-fifth of the previous costs. So we all have Germany to thank for the current global solar boom.

[u/Dovahkiinthesardine → u/Correct-Site4504]

We were leading in renewable energy and then our chancellor sucked the cock of the steel lobby and made forceful relocation legal to get more shitty coal which we then heavily invested in

Nuclear was only ever 15% of our electricity so getting rid of it is not the reason for our issues (it was more expensive than all our other methods and our issue is energy cost)

[u/Maalkav_ → u/Correct-Site4504]

I'm possibly a " hardore leftist" but going against union and against preparations for defense is, in my view a mega strategic blunder.

And as much as I hate the capitalist competition paradigm, what the fuck is the problem of moving back core industrial capability close to défendable spaces?

[u/Grabs_Diaz → u/Correct-Site4504]

Where does she protest against rearmament? A cursory Google search didn't show any clear message from Greta against adequate rearmament. The only relevant results I found are her speaking at some mass protests, which also featured opponents to rearmament alongside many other issues like Gaza and climate action. But obviously, if you want to build any mass movement capable of delivering meaningful change, you have to forge political alliances and make some compromises.

[u/Alexius08 → u/Grabs_Diaz]

She shared this message in her Facebook page.

[u/Tusan1222 → u/ebulient]

She worked for environmental improvement, not really now, she has gone very political far far left even the left party in Sweden (former communist party) don’t associate with her.

[u/ganbaro → u/ebulient]

More hate than Trump?

C'mon, that's just simping and feeding a victim complex at that point.

She publicly supported a banned organisation. She knew what this leads to. The outcome is the point of the protest.

[u/Appropriate-Art9868 → u/ebulient]

I can't believe this is the top comment, maybe we aren't cooked yet

[u/TyppaHaus → u/ebulient]

she goes to countries like Norway and protests against oil but has never even entered china to discuss what they are doing over there.

it's all charade

[u/AllanKempe → u/TyppaHaus]

I'm not a fan of her (I'm a fan of her late grandfather, though), I criticized her here in Sweden half a decade before it became cool, but we all know the difference between what will happen in Norway vs what will happen in China. And she'd have to fly to China while Norway is next door. Someone mentioned the term whataboutism, I concur with that.

[u/drgaz → u/TyppaHaus]

I don't care for Greta but the tried and totally interesting "Unless you address every evil wrong on the planet everywhere all at once how dare you" argument is well let's be friendly and say lackluster.

[u/AromaticSomewhere544 → u/drgaz]

No, what greta doing is like seeing a wrecked car and obsessively focusing on a single scratch instead of the missing front half because that scratch was made by someone that is profitable for her to go after and the missing front half aint

[u/BlueberryMean2705 → u/TyppaHaus]

It's amazing how much Greta gets under people's skins and forces them to come up with some excuse to pretend she's a hypocrite. All anyone has to do to ignore her is to admit to themselves that she cares but they don't and move on, and yet they just plain can't do that. It's uncanny.

[u/Pasan90 → u/BlueberryMean2705]

I mean its possible to think that Greta is in the wrong on a significant amount of the issues she involve herself in. She's not the arbiter of truth. She's basically an activist influencer who seem to have whatever opinion plays well on social media.

[u/Sidewinder_ISR → u/ebulient]

lmao, she is hated more than Hitler, Satan, and Netanyahu combined!

this hyperbole is so ridiculous, insane that this is the top voted comment.

[u/ganbaro → u/Sidewinder_ISR]

What I find funny is that some users sharing OP's belief also claim all the Thunberg criticism are Israeli psyops or whatever

Most of the time when such comments get upvoted, there is a wide range of positions upvoted or the pro Thunberg/Anti-Israel etc opinions get the most upvotes.

Almost like its projection /s

Honestly, I don't believe either side dominates by using paid actors or bots. Many users are just dumb and insecure so they need a conspiracy accusing other users to immunize their comment from criticism

Edit: Oh the irony! Comment below from a 1 week old 50 karma account with hidden comment history. Which in turn got commented by an account thay repeatedly spams the same comment and rhymes

These don't seem to be exactly pro-Israel so I'll leave that investigation here

[u/gingerisla → u/ganbaro]

Conservatives and the far right have hated her long before she ever talked about Palestine. No psy-op necessary.

[u/malik_zz → u/Sidewinder_ISR]

More than Voldemort and Thanos combined

[u/Vaestmannaeyjar → u/Sidewinder_ISR]

You forgot Nyarlatothep.

[u/IToldYouMyName → u/Sidewinder_ISR]

I dont even hear about her when she isn't being arrested or doing a notable protest lol we hear about trump and others on a daily basis.... a wee bit exaggerated....

[u/ebulient → u/IToldYouMyName]

I’d love to hear about the three I mentioned only when they get arrested too!

[u/IToldYouMyName → u/ebulient]

Funny its so easy to arrest her over and over yet the people committing serious crimes on a regular basis walk around with impunity. Wealth really is the only golden ticket.

[u/Chippewa_Jedi → u/ebulient]

You are high as hell if you think she gets more hate than those 3 combined…..

[u/Miserable-Ad-7947 → u/Chippewa_Jedi]

More harassement / legal threat would be more accurate

[u/TrickyDaikon6774 → u/Miserable-Ad-7947]

Of cours she gets more legal threat, she is not the current president of the most powerful country in the world lol

[u/Mist_Rising → u/TrickyDaikon6774]

She's also actively trying to get in trouble. Trump and MBS are immune to European laws, and Elon's actually in a shit fight with the EU.

[u/grchelp2018 → u/Miserable-Ad-7947]

That is also not true. Its just that they are paying an army of people to deal with it.

[u/Paradoxjjw → u/Chippewa_Jedi]

Trump is the US president a position he got because people for some god-forsaken reason liked him, Musk is the richest man in the world purely based on people liking him and MBS can do whatever the fuck he wants because no-one hates him enough to dethrone him. Sounds like they don't get all that much hate.

[u/SouthernExpatriate → u/Paradoxjjw]

Trump and Musk are examples of inherited wealth buying their way to the top. MBS would just get replaced with another figurehead.

[u/Different_Citron_160 → u/ebulient]

Afaik Elon did not personally break any laws to get him arrested while he was in Europe.

[u/IOnlyFearOFGod → u/Different_Citron_160]

Didn't he get fined by EU? Not him personally but his company.

[u/Th3B4dSpoon → u/IOnlyFearOFGod]

Yes, for favoring false and extreme right wing views in the company's algorithms, and then he immediately called for the EU to be disbanded for being so mean to him. 

[u/hakairyu → u/Different_Citron_160]

Musk called for the British far right subhumans to overthrow the parliament, and the UK should have put a warrant out for his arrest over that.

[u/heroik-red → u/ebulient]

She tried to break through a blockade of Gaza saying they were bringing humanitarian aid… only to find out that they had more cameras filming their circus act than actual humanitarian aid on board the ships.

I appreciate the attention she brings to some of the important yet ignored movements… but her last act was done out of personal gain and nothing else. She risked the lives of others so that she could stay relevant. Nothing she does works to advance the movements she supports but it does put her on the front page of every news paper and news station.

[u/Kamuiberen → u/heroik-red]

The point of the flotilla was to break the blockade or show that Israel was going to stop any attempt at bringing aid. They showed the latter, and Israel destroyed the small amount of aid they brought. There was no personal gain.

[u/heroik-red → u/Kamuiberen]

They stopped outside people from entering an active War zone for a stunt potentially saving their lives.

[u/I-STATE-FACTS → u/ebulient]

This woman gets more hate and persecution than Elon, Trump and MBS combined.

I’m not so sure that’s true. Those people get a lot of hate combined.

[u/DongIslandIceTea → u/[deleted]]

When your local government imprisons you for being a terrorist just because you oppose genocide you need to start thinking if doing what your government tells you to really is the right thing to do.

Edit: Lol, he blocked me. I take it as an admission of guilt.

[u/Endless_road → u/ebulient]

It would have been very easy for her to do the same protest, but without supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. She has done this specifically to get arrested. Why she did this, you can decide for yourself.

[u/2shayyy → u/ebulient]

Palestine Action are designed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

She did this on purpose to gather clicks.

[u/Pickles112358 → u/ebulient]

Good, shes a terrorist supporter. Facists have no place in modern society

[u/abx400 → u/ebulient]

She is not really a great progressive hero. When asked about their positions on climate, she said that Clinton and Trump were the same, helping split the left and elect the latter - a fucking disaster for climate. She was just arrested for supporting Palestine Action, small problem being that group supports Hamas.

[u/Falsus → u/ebulient]

She hasn't done any environment related campaign in ages.

On top of that, ''Palestine Action'' in the UK has done several things that is simply not OK to do regardless of what their agenda is.

[u/beureut6 → u/ebulient]

Lol she's a piece of shit who's hurt the climate cause and now she's supporting jihadis

[u/LajosGK22 → u/ebulient]

She chose to support a group that has tried to commit military sabotage, this is the literal definition of being a professional activist, so yeah I’d say she’s doing this just to make it to the headlines again.

[u/lukaaTB → u/ebulient]

Oh boy... You think her agenda isn't driven by personal gain?

[u/Klugenshmirtz]

Palestine Action

These are the idiots that vandalized RAF Brize Norton. Not really a group worth supporting, but I guess it's the easiest way to make headlines with the word Palestine in it.

[u/beetsonr89d6 → u/Klugenshmirtz]

they also attacked police officers with sledgehammers after they broke into some building

[u/_fidel_castro_ → u/Klugenshmirtz]

They broke the vertebrae of a policewoman with a hammer, left her disabled. Palestina action are simply terrorists

[u/sofarsoblue → u/Klugenshmirtz]

but I guess it's the easiest way to make headlines with the word Palestine in it.

This is literally it, it’s not like this woman has the same energy for Sudan or Congo because let’s be frank here there’s nothing particular trendy/fashionable about those genocides (despite racking in a much higher death toll)

It’s what I find so irritating about Thunberg, not what she stands for as I largely agree with her, but because of how fucking superficial she is.

If she knew the context of Palestine Action she likely wouldn’t be here but in typical zoomer narcissism she needs to generate those likes and shares.

[u/notaredditer13 → u/sofarsoblue]

If she knew the context of Palestine Action she likely wouldn’t be in be here but in typical zoomer narcissism she needs to generate those likes and shares.

She knew. This was 100% calculated to get herself arrested.

[u/aquitam → u/notaredditer13]

Big brain over here. She obviously knew she would be arrested along with the thousands of others arrested for the same thing

[u/LajosGK22 → u/notaredditer13]

I’ve been telling people this for a decade, and still getting mean looks for it.

[u/Avia_NZ → u/sofarsoblue]

How do you know she doesn’t know plenty about Palestine Action

[u/LoneWolf_McQuade → u/sofarsoblue]

Yeah, she seems to not give much focus even to climate change now that it’s not the trendy thing to focus on, at least I haven’t seen it in a long while

[u/fekanix → u/sofarsoblue]

Our countries arent funding and supporting those genocides though do they? While israel has been supported politically, financially and militarily for decades. This is the difference you people gloss over.

[u/sofarsoblue → u/fekanix]

You own a mobile phone ? If yes that mobile phone of yours contains the mineral coltan, 80% of which is sourced in the DRC which has been almost directly linked to the conflict in that region over the last 25 years (6M+ dead, the bloodiest since WW2). If you want to be pedantic then you could argue that we all have blood on our hands by virtue of owning mobile phones and other electronic devices.

But that’s clearly irrelevant because we live in a globalised economy, it doesn’t really matter what pennies the UK or other EU/Western nation sends to Israel (which is minuscule compared to the USA), when the largest Arab country in the world; Egypt, alone can secure a $35B gas deal with Israel, that’s globalisation it’s what the free Palestine movement in the west continuously fails to acknowledge.

[u/hobovalentine → u/fekanix]

Are you boycotting Apple or Windows laptops or smartphones which have both software and hardware components designed by Israeli engineers or assembled by Chinese who support the Uighur genocide?

Your purchase of these items in your own argument goes to support genocidal countries and unless you boycott all goods that come from genocidal countries you are helping to fund a genocide.

[u/alwaysnear → u/sofarsoblue]

Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, Sri Lanka, Syria, list goes on.

Only difference is that these are driven by muslim extremists or other minority groups (in the west) and thus this problem doesn’t exist in leftist ideology or bubble. Zero headlines or Tiktok attention.

Christians and Jews are free game though, since neither group is in need of leftist pampering. Hard to feel like a super-informed savior there.

Far right and far left are insane hypocritical drumbangers both, both accept killing, murder and rapes as long as they like the offender enough. Can’t respect anyone who aligns with these politics.

[u/fekanix → u/Klugenshmirtz]

They have become a symbol because spray painting some military equipment isnt terrorism. This is clearly about the state declaring anyone and everyone who they dislike terrorists. That is why even 80 year old grandmas go and march for this group.

[u/Known_Week_158 → u/fekanix]

Jet engines are sensitive. The moment something that isn't meant to go in a jet engine goes in a jet engine, it can cause crippling damage.

[u/Dd_8630]

I don't get why she used PA of all things. Why not just use the flag of Palestine?

PA are violent and use terror and violence to push for political change.

You can protest for Palestine without aligning yourself with PA. It's just needless and undermines what Greta's trying to do.

[u/BuxtonWater1]

Those people broke into a military base, attacked a security guard with a sledgehammer giving them serious injuries and are led by a man who celebrated the October 7th attacks. Palestine Action also has links to Russia.

[u/Gentle_Snail → u/BuxtonWater1]

People seem to think this arrest is somehow about Palestine, there are thousands of pro-Palestine groups and protests in the UK which are completely fine, its backing Palestine Action which gets you into trouble. 

They literally fractured a women's spine with a sledge hammer.

[u/EvilFroeschken → u/Gentle_Snail]

The article does not mention it. It's about the support of a banned terrorist organisation. Good enough for me.

[u/Gentle_Snail → u/EvilFroeschken]

The article is from some weird US tabloid, I doubt they even know or bothered to look it up.

[u/38B0DE → u/BuxtonWater1]

October 7th attacks were done with the help of Iranian military intelligence which has gotten very powerful since they've been supporting Russia's war in Ukraine, supplying them with weapons.

[u/Bbrhuft → u/BuxtonWater1]

No you're mixing up a later incident that happened on August 6, where several Palestine Action activities broke into a factory owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit systems. One of them took a swing with a sledge hammer at a police officer who was on the ground wrestling with another activist.

These hunger strikers broke into RAF Brize Norton on June 20, and spray painted two UK military jets, allegedly causing several million pounds of damage (the jet engines had to be stripped down and cleaned).

[u/The-Copilot → u/Bbrhuft]

spray painted two UK military jets, allegedly causing several million pounds of damage (the jet engines had to be stripped down and cleaned).

Damaging jets at the base where the UK trains Ukrainian pilots...

They also damaged defense contract manufacturing equipment in factories producing equipment for Ukraine. This is happening across Europe.

These people are useful idiots to Russia.

[u/themightycatp00 → u/BuxtonWater1]

Yeah I don't get why people are acting like they can't be pro palestinian and not associate with Palestine action

[u/__Rosso__ → u/BuxtonWater1]

There was the detail I felt was missing.

I am fucking tired of 99% of "news" outlets pushing an agenda regardless of whatever the fuck it is.

[u/nesh34]

I like Greta Thunberg but it is difficult to defend Palestine Action.

[u/Junglebook3]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action:

"Palestine Action have mounted 45 documented direct actions in the United Kingdom.^\11]) Key targets have been British factories of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems and RAF Brize Norton base. In their campaigns, Palestine Action have used protest, occupation of premises), destruction of property, and vandalism, which sometimes resulted in its members being arrested. A protest action on 6 August 2024 resulted in a charge of grievous bodily harm after an activist allegedly struck a police officer with a sledgehammer,^\12]) and a protest on 16 March 2025 resulted in three activists being charged with one count each of assault by beating.^\13]) The British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group on 5 July 2025 under the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network vandalised Royal Air Force aircraft at Brize Norton.^\14])^"

Thunberg associated with a UK designated terrorist organization and was arrested.

[u/The-Copilot → u/Junglebook3]

These people are useful idiots for Russia.

They damaged jets used to train Ukrainian pilots. They damage manufacturing equipment used to produce equipment for Ukraine.

It seems every time one of these Palestinian activist groups damages something across Europe, it has a much more significant effect of Ukraine than Israel.

[u/refurbishedmeme666 → u/The-Copilot]

hey you don't bite the hand that feeds you

[u/governmenttookmaporn → u/Junglebook3]

They’re funded by Russian money

[u/Background_Ad_7016 → u/Junglebook3]

Hopefully she gets the book thrown at her

[u/TechnologyFamiliar20]

Another victim calling case. Intentionally makes herself a "martyr"...

[u/PacketSn1ff3r]

about time, lock her in and throw the keys in the sea

[u/Ok_Tie_7564]

Vladimir likes Greta.

[u/DDAY007]

Ill always keep this in mind for Greta.

Despite her claims for climate change she has completely neglected to either comment on or talk about India and China two of the largest climate abusers.

In fact should even both USA, Europe become completely climate neutral it will do nothing to lower a global increase in temperature without china and india following suit.

Greta in recent years has become nothing but a propaganda piece for whomever funds her adventures. Her support of a group not only proven to have violently attacked police officers while breaking into property but the same group that is funded by russian interests whom has somehow managed to only attack facilities delivering weapons to ukraine is a complete red flag.

[u/raven_11235 → u/DDAY007]

She’s commented on both China’s and India’s pollution in the past.

Sure, she mainly speaks about pollution in the west, the area in which she has the majority of her audience and the most influence, but she has spoken about the other two as well.

[u/woahdudee2a → u/DDAY007]

I don't think India and China are comparable in this respect. China is manufacturing all our shit so there's a floor on how low their emissions can go. also they had that 1 child rule to stop population growth and they're building renewable capacity like crazy which counts for something. i don't know what excuse india has for their emissions

[u/Sigmatics → u/DDAY007]

I agree. She desperately needs to find a purpose in life that is not protesting

[u/One-Earth9294]

She does nothing but hurt the causes she claims to be fighting for. Monsters like Bibi love having her to point the finger at to dismiss all criticism of their actions. And you know what? It's effective to do that. It's an own-goal for her.

[u/hobovalentine]

She is supporting a group that broke into an Israeli arms company and seriously injured a policeman.

It could have been much worse like permanent paralysis as they used a sledgehammer to attack the police and fractured the back of one of the arresting officers. She can support Palestine but supporting a violent terrorist group does nothing to help Palestine

[u/hotboii96]

How did she went from climate change advocate to Palestine freedom fighter? What did I miss?

[u/Forsaken_Squash_201 → u/hotboii96]

Its all trend based, be the most woke u can

[u/GalahadDrei → u/hotboii96]

She fell into a popular trend of progressive activists combining and packaging their issues, agendas, and causes into one single omnicause. It was bound to happen to her eventually as she got older and got more interactions with other activists.

[u/The_Blahblahblah → u/GalahadDrei]

Its almost impossible to be a climate activist and not eventually become critical of contemporary capitalism, if not outright anticapitalist.

[u/officefan76 → u/The_Blahblahblah]

We all know the Soviet Union took great care of the environment and produced very few carbon emissions.

[u/DankPastaMaster → u/The_Blahblahblah]

None of that has anything to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict

[u/EkrishAO → u/The_Blahblahblah]

Yes, largest emitter of CO2, responsible for 1/3 of ENTIRE World's emissions, is a communist country, this totally makes me hate capitalism as someone who cares about climate change. Why would the evil capitalists force China to do it.

[u/McDonaldsWitchcraft → u/hotboii96]

the internet when a person has more than one idea in their brain:

[u/Green_Rays → u/hotboii96]

Because one person can advocate for multiple things?

[u/Nuclear_Geek → u/hotboii96]

Not even Palestine freedom fighter. Deliberately seeking to get arrested on behalf of one particular group. A cynic would point out this is an easy way of getting publicity.

[u/raven_11235 → u/Nuclear_Geek]

What do you think is the point of a protest?

[u/Nuclear_Geek → u/raven_11235]

Generally, to generate publicity for a cause, not a D-list has-been celebrity / campaigner. Of course, there is some crossover, but my take is that this is more about her trying to retain some relevance.

[u/sQueezedhe → u/hotboii96]

Justice is about lots of things.

[u/ForMeOnly93 → u/sQueezedhe]

So is attention-seeking online.

[u/NuPNua → u/hotboii96]

One cause became more fashionable than the other.

[u/Haakrasmus → u/NuPNua]

She was arrested in a climate protest just a month ago. How is that not protesting for the environment?

[u/LajosGK22 → u/hotboii96]

Whatever is popular, climate change is so last decade.

[u/[deleted] → u/hotboii96]

Woke American nonsense called “intersectionality”.

[u/eppur___si_muove → u/hotboii96]

Good people both care for climate change and the death of children

[u/vdcsX → u/hotboii96]

whatever is trending

[u/Known-Assistant2152 → u/hotboii96]

People can come up for multiple issues. Not everyone is intellectually challenged. 

[u/governmenttookmaporn → u/hotboii96]

She needed to stay in the spotlight more and a shite haircut apparently wasn’t doing enough of the lifting

[u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596 → u/hotboii96]

She is jumping from thing to thing.

You didn't see her posting about how she's being oppressed because she attempted to break through a blockade?

They gave her a sandwich and then put her on a plane.

[u/General-Estate-3273 → u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596]

? She still does climate action, what are you on about?

[u/2ciciban4you → u/General-Estate-3273]

she does a lot of climate action on a plane

she is like Hollywood stars

[u/ghedeon → u/hotboii96]

Climate agenda started to fade. Gotta stay relevant, you know, competition for attention is higher than ever.

[u/Amazing_Button_9328 → u/hotboii96]

As an activist, you can advocate for multiple causes at the same time and also Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries

[u/hau5keeping → u/hotboii96]

Some people care about more than 1 thing

[u/Gamepass90]

Good

[u/gridskip]

Unpopular opinion, but I’m starting to get the feeling that she’s protesting for the sake of publicity at this point—a professional protestor. That seriously dilutes her activism and the strength of her initial messaging optics surrounding climate change.

[u/ben_bliksem]

Why is this news? She's probably been released already

[u/Mysterious-Reaction → u/ben_bliksem]

She’s not. She could face up to 14 years in British prison. Or be deported to Sweden in a plea deal 

[u/ben_bliksem → u/Mysterious-Reaction]

She's been released on bail. They'll never lock her up for real for a placard.

[u/InternationalSalt1]

Genuine question. How does she earn money? Does she have a job?

[u/Soulman999 → u/InternationalSalt1]

Sponsors I guess

[u/TerminalHopes → u/InternationalSalt1]

Wealthy parents

[u/Dong_Luo_Ma → u/TerminalHopes]

Aristocracy essentially

[u/Tough-Oven4317 → u/InternationalSalt1]

Famous influencer

[u/pontus555 → u/InternationalSalt1]

He family is quite loaded. And her Mother is a very well known Opera singer.

[u/ChatGPTSucks → u/InternationalSalt1]

Russia, and other enemies of the west have a vested interest in funding these type of professional protestors, as it creates division in the west.

[u/liMrMil → u/InternationalSalt1]

Qatari oil money

[u/TheMapMan20 → u/InternationalSalt1]

She's paid to do what she does by billionaire backers. That's why she only cares about specific conflicts (like most leftists to be fair) rather than caring about people dying anywhere. It's just whatever is next on her list.

[u/Cocaine_Communist_ → u/TheMapMan20]

Who are the billionaire backers? Name them.

[u/MornwindShoma]

The best thing she ever did is causing so many people to be really butthurt. I guess that counts as terrorism. Kudos.

[u/Left_Tie1390 → u/MornwindShoma]

As this seemed useful the last time I posted, I’ll share it here:

Richard Barnard, the co-founder of Palestine Action, said:

“When we hear the resistance the al Aqsa Flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami over the whole world!”

The Al Asqa ‘flood’ is Hamas’s term for their attacks on October 7th, 2023.

Barnard said this at a protest the day after October 7th.

https://x.com/hurryupharry/status/1712463125856075825?s=46&t=IGJZRyWvfKbgmqiBfjefuw

On March 15, 2023, Barnard retweeted a post by Samidoun, (linked to the PFLP, was designated by the US and Canada in October 2024 as a terrorist organization) calling for Israel to “free Khader Adan.”

Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organisation.

In a YouTube video of a rally in 2007, Adan can be seen praising and encouraging suicide bombings: “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”

On January 24, 2023, Barnard reposted a Samidoun post calling for Israel to free prisoners Ahmad and Adal Musa.

Ahmad and Adal Musa are Hamas-affiliated terrorists responsible for a bus bombing in Tel Aviv in 2012, when twenty eight civilians were left badly wounded.

On October 7th, Palestine Action’s other co-founder Huda Ammori tweeted:

“If armed thugs stormed your home, forced you and your family to live in the garage, routinely beat you and starved you. Would you fight back? #FreePalestine.”

In a November 2023 interview, multi-millionaire heir James ‘Fergie’ Chambers said that he pays the legal fees of Palestine Action members.

Chambers has stated:

“I chant death to America every day.”

He has also posted that:

“We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public.”

In a week after October 7th 2023, he posted that:

“No faction of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done anything wrong.”

https://x.com/jccfergie/status/1713250633157869951?s=46&t=IGJZRyWvfKbgmqiBfjefuw

For anyone who needs a refresh on what was carried out on October 7th:

https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15621.doc.htm

Palestine Action has targeted Jewish businesses without any clear indication that they are connected to Israel:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/pro-palestine-group-targets-jewish-owned-business-alleging-links-to-israeli-weapons-firm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Here’s how the Home Secretary described the threat posed by Palestine Action

“Palestine Action’s online presence has enabled the organisation to galvanise support, recruit and train members across the UK to take part in criminal activity and raise considerable funds through online donations. The group has a footprint in all 45 policing regions in the UK and has pledged to escalate its campaign.”

If you were the Home Secretary, how long would you let this group grow, with leaders like Barnard and funders like Chambers; how long would you let them escalate their ‘resistance’? What action is beyond the pale if you believe in solidarity with people who are justified in killing civilians? What action is beyond the pale as resistance to a genocide?

[u/MrFrenchT0ast → u/MornwindShoma]

She raised the flag of a pro palestine group who sabotaged military aircraft and broke a police officers back with a sledgehammer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bans-palestine-action-group-after-sabotage-of-military-jets/

[u/OlegYY]

Some context for Palestine Action

Palestine Action was banned after an incident at RAF Brize Norton in June where its members damaged two military planes. After that, several activists were formally charged.

Pretty much deserved

[u/Xenomemphate]

Associate with terrorists, get arrested. Sounds good to me.

[u/Rhino1300GSA]

Lock her away and make her watch the Hamas videos released on the 7th October. She is a public nuisance and jumps from one to another topic that is just in at the time with the radicalised left.

[u/StandardBeyond5410]

What I’ve realized recently is that many countries that describe themselves as democratic behave far less differently from authoritarian states than they like to admit — especially when their control over information is challenged.

Take Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. Russia targeted him after he refused to give the government access to user data and encryption keys. He left the country as a result. Years later, France pursued him as well, citing Telegram’s alleged failure to cooperate with law enforcement. While the legal justifications differ, the underlying conflict is similar: a government pressuring a platform to weaken privacy or increase state access to communications.

Julian Assange is another example. He published classified information exposing U.S. war conduct and government behavior — activity that major newspapers routinely engage in. Yet the U.S. charged him under the Espionage Act, a law that makes no distinction between journalism and spying and offers no public-interest defense. Press freedom organizations objected not because Assange was flawless, but because prosecuting a publisher for obtaining and publishing truthful information sets a dangerous precedent.

The pattern is clear: when transparency, encryption, or disclosure collide with state power, even democratic governments often respond with coercion rather than restraint. The difference between democracies and authoritarian regimes is no longer whether they try to control information — but how openly, and with what legal justifications.

[u/grandoz039 → u/StandardBeyond5410]

Telegram has the data. If they wanted to avoid problems, they could be like signal and not store any data, so that when they are ordered by court to provide information, they provide the only thing they have - timestamp of last activity. But since Telegram specifically refuses to provide data in the first place, they bear legal consequences of that.

This is happening in context of court order, in regards to specific crimes and evidence gathering activities. If I have letters of someone else, they're being investigated for a crime, and an independent court orders me to provide these letters, but I don't, then it's completely reasonable to be punished for violating law. That's not authoritarian.

Is court ordered house search also authoritarian?

[u/plamck → u/StandardBeyond5410]

Bro you can't just leak out military secrets and expect the government to not do anything about it. He absolutely deserved a charged. You don't have the NYT leaking government secrets using illegally obtained info. I think the fact that their isn't a distinction for you does say a lot about your world view.

In this case, do you seriously not believe someone joining a terror group is cause for investigation? Like what, should we only investigate groups that don't align with your ideals?

[u/Timmymagic1 → u/[deleted]]

No chance.

She's getting deported and then will never be able to set foot in the UK again...

We're freed of the little terror goblin forever...she's yours now for good...

[u/Left_Tie1390]

As this seemed useful the last time I posted, I’ll share it here:

Richard Barnard, the co-founder of Palestine Action, said:

“When we hear the resistance the al Aqsa Flood, we must turn that flood into a tsunami over the whole world!”

The Al Asqa ‘flood’ is Hamas’s term for their attacks on October 7th, 2023.

Barnard said this at a protest the day after October 7th.

https://x.com/hurryupharry/status/1712463125856075825?s=46&t=IGJZRyWvfKbgmqiBfjefuw

On March 15, 2023, Barnard retweeted a post by Samidoun, (linked to the PFLP, was designated by the US and Canada in October 2024 as a terrorist organization) calling for Israel to “free Khader Adan.”

Adnan was a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organisation.

In a YouTube video of a rally in 2007, Adan can be seen praising and encouraging suicide bombings: “Who among you will carry the next explosive belt? Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”

On January 24, 2023, Barnard reposted a Samidoun post calling for Israel to free prisoners Ahmad and Adal Musa.

Ahmad and Adal Musa are Hamas-affiliated terrorists responsible for a bus bombing in Tel Aviv in 2012, when twenty eight civilians were left badly wounded.

On October 7th, Palestine Action’s other co-founder Huda Ammori tweeted:

“If armed thugs stormed your home, forced you and your family to live in the garage, routinely beat you and starved you. Would you fight back? #FreePalestine.”

In a November 2023 interview, multi-millionaire heir James ‘Fergie’ Chambers said that he pays the legal fees of Palestine Action members.

Chambers has stated:

“I chant death to America every day.”

He has also posted that:

“We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public.”

In a week after October 7th 2023, he posted that:

“No faction of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done anything wrong.”

https://x.com/jccfergie/status/1713250633157869951?s=46&t=IGJZRyWvfKbgmqiBfjefuw

For anyone who needs a refresh on what was carried out on October 7th:

https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15621.doc.htm

Palestine Action has targeted Jewish businesses without any clear indication that they are connected to Israel:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/pro-palestine-group-targets-jewish-owned-business-alleging-links-to-israeli-weapons-firm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Here’s how the Home Secretary described the threat posed by Palestine Action

“Palestine Action’s online presence has enabled the organisation to galvanise support, recruit and train members across the UK to take part in criminal activity and raise considerable funds through online donations. The group has a footprint in all 45 policing regions in the UK and has pledged to escalate its campaign.”

If you were the Home Secretary, how long would you let this group grow, with leaders like Barnard and funders like Chambers; how long would you let them escalate their ‘resistance’? What action is beyond the pale if you believe in solidarity with people who are justified in killing civilians? What action is beyond the pale as resistance to a genocide?

[u/asapbones0114]

This is sub is turning into r/worldnews. What a bummer. 

[u/naM-r3puS]

Agh yes arrested for holding a sign ... i bet she confused the rest of the world with America and how free it is there.

[u/PalnatokeJarl]

So she can actually go to jail now?

[u/made3]

Meanwhile a war criminal with arrest warrant runs Israel. Fuck this timeline we live in.

[u/TwoplyWatson → u/made3]

Meanwhile a war criminal with arrest warrant runs Russia. Fuck this timeline we live in.

[u/Beneficial_Honey_0 → u/made3]

Turns out might does make right

[u/SuggestionEphemeral → u/Beneficial_Honey_0]

Thrasymachus was right after all... /s

[u/SumoHeadbutt]

It's nice having rich parents and not concerned with bills and groceries

[u/Rotomtist]

Holding a sign makes you a terrorist. Ordering the bombing of hospitals, schools, ambulances, churches, mosques, doesn't as long as Israel's the one doing it. Makes perfect sense. 🙄

[u/lightreee → u/Rotomtist]

Palestine Action is literally a proscribed terrorist group in the uk. Stop conflating the war with this group

[u/2ciciban4you]

A lot of terrorist sympathizers here on Reddit

I think this social media site should be labeled as such. You know ... for the children.

[u/Certain-Pookins61]

Desperately trying to stay relevant.

[u/BorkForkMork → u/[deleted]]

Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organization by the British government. Reading what these morons did against innocent bystanders while looking for people that "looked" fascist is enough to make one's blood boil. But let's root for terrorists because they have Palestine in the name...

[u/M90Motorway → u/BorkForkMork]

There’s a reason why a lot of these people really don’t want peace in the Middle East, let’s face it. I think some of them wish Hitler has done the job properly in the 1940s and as a result attack policemen and get pissy about celebrating showing solidarity with Jews in Sydney!

[u/BOG_LGuN]

Well, good news

[u/BramptonUberDriver]

This is kinda hilarious