Greta Thunberg, the 22-year-old who gained fame as the world’s favorite mentally unstable climate advocate, has joined 11 activists in a mission to break “Israel’s siege” of Gaza. On Sunday afternoon in Sicily, Thunberg, adorned in a keffiyeh, boarded Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s sailing boat Madleen and departed for Gaza in a bid to raise “international awareness” of the humanitarian crisis, for which Israel is apparently solely to blame.

“We are doing this because, no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said as she burst into tears. (At this point, Thunberg really should be sponsored by Kleenex.) “Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. And no matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the live-streamed genocide.”

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I’m not buying it. Thunberg is a participant, willing or unwilling, in the latest pseudo-religious cult that provides members with the same frenzied levels of purist adulation as the climate change cult.

First, from a purely strategic standpoint, what is a small boat of a dozen professional agitators going to achieve by trying, and inevitably failing, to reach an active war zone? This smells far more of a Western narcissism, in which we must celebrate ourselves for sheltered performances of charity, than an actual attempt to effect change.

But let’s take a step back from the so-called mission itself and consider the people Thunberg is actively supporting: Hamas. You know, the brutal terrorist group that carried out the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, murdering, torturing, raping, mutilating, burning, and kidnapping well over 1,000 Jews because they were Jews.

Assuming Thunberg doesn’t care about Hamas’s Israeli victims, a fair assumption given she displayed a “stand with Gaza” sign just days after Oct. 7, then perhaps she should care about Hamas’s Palestinian victims.

Hamas is to blame for the fact that many Palestinian civilians in Gaza don’t have food, water, utilities, healthcare, education, or even bomb shelters. During the multiple waves of significant aid efforts since October 2023, it even actively engaged in barbaric and murderous thievery to extort its own people and further profit from their suffering by intercepting aid deliveries and selling the scraps that remained to Gaza’s desperate population.

And, of course, let’s not forget that the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza could end today if Hamas simply released the hostages it has held captive for almost 20 months. But Thunberg has yet to pose with an Israeli flag and demand the freedom of Israelis. How odd.

But what about the very climate Thunberg cares so deeply about? Who can forget her “how dare you” speech at the United Nations, in which she lambasted the world for having “stolen my dreams and my childhood”? Well, today it is Thunberg stealing dreams and childhoods with her empty words.

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She doesn’t care that Hamas tore out Gaza’s water system to use for rockets. She doesn’t care that Hamas routinely sets fire to urban, suburban, and rural areas as a weapon of war. She doesn’t even care that Hamas uses gasoline to power its vast underground tunnel system that keeps it, and not Palestinian civilians, safe from attack.

If Greta Thunberg is going to shift from climate advocacy to Palestinian terrorism, perhaps she could at least ask Hamas to start recycling, kidnap Jews with electric vehicles, and power its genocidal efforts with solar.

Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist. Follow him on X (@ighaworth) or Substack.