Greta Thunberg slammed for sharing image of Israeli hostage in post on Palestinian prisoners

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is facing backlash after a controversial Instagram post shared in collaboration with a pro-Palestinian activist featured an image of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, held by Hamas in Gaza.

The post, published Monday by Yasmin Aker — a participant in the “Sumud” flotilla to Gaza — was shared jointly with Thunberg through Instagram’s “Collaboration” feature, which posts the same content to both users' accounts. Thunberg, who has over 16 million followers, did not remove the post as of Tuesday.

The post described the "suffering of Palestinian prisoners" as “not a matter of opinion – it is a fact of cruelty and dehumanization,” adding, “Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders.” Among the images included was a photo of 24-year-old Israeli hostage Evyatar David, appearing severely malnourished in what is believed to be a Hamas tunnel. The image was taken from a propaganda video released by Hamas in late July.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjnurxxplg

[fujiyamasan]

2. Just part of the modern dumbing down

It doesn’t matter if something is accurate or even real anymore. Sources? Sources are for suckers!

You see it here more frequently as well. Fewer interesting articles, especially anything long form. More “quotes” by some celebrity supposedly saying something that reinforces people’s existing biases or feelings. It then gets a few hundreds recs.

[question everything]

4. You can open the link and find the images. Yes, it is very real

[fujiyamasan]

6. Are you referring to the images of emancipated Israeli hostage. ?

I’m not disputing that at all. And I think Greta doesn’t do herself any favors by not checking the accuracy. Even if her point may be valid regarding Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners. Though I don’t understand why she can’t make a statement actually condemning rape and hostage taking.

My argument is that memes or meme like posts have become frequent slop we have to wade through.

[JoseBalow]

15. We all pay the price

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3. Including a picture of a starving, perhaps dead Israeli hostage in a pro-Hamas post is offensive

and hurtful to his family. She clearly had no idea what she was posting. Just something to gain attention.

[TheProle]

13. Social media is the Great Filter

[Danmel]

5. Shameless performative antisemitism

Go back to Sweden Greta.
Your 15 minutes are over.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

8. And the ones who are doing the real work are not grandstanding for the cameras n/t

[JI7]

7. Fame attention seeking piece of shit

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9. Greta Thunberg Deletes Post Protesting Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners After Hamas Hostage Pic Mix-Up

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/greta-thunberg-deletes-post-protesting-143133956.html

Greta Thunberg was forced to delete an Instagram post protesting the “cruelty and dehumanization” dealt to Palestinian prisoners of Israel after the sister of a Hamas hostage pointed out she had mistakenly used a propaganda image of her “starved” brother, thinking he was a Palestinian.

The post, shared Monday by the Swedish activist and other campaigners, claimed to highlight “the suffering of Palestinian prisoners.” But one of the photos was a still of 24-year-old Israeli hostage Evyatar David pulled from footage released by Hamas in August that showed the prisoner, gaunt and shirtless, digging his own grave.

[fujiyamasan]

17. Pathetic that she simply deletes but can't make a statement condemning hostage taking

And keeping people in such conditions, regardless of who does it.

[Ping Tung]

10. Benjamin Netanyahu slammed for 64,000 civilian casualties in Gaza.

Just to keep it all in perspective. A mixed up photo or 64000 dead.
Greta deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu deserves being in the dock of the ICC for crimes against humanity.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/palestinian-death-toll-in-gaza-passes-64000-officials-say-after-ceasefire-talks-break-down

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their incompatible demands for ending the fighting sparked by the militant group’s 2023 attack.



Note: The photo above is of a dead Palestinian child.

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11. All Hamas had to do was returned the hostages. They are the ones responsible for the suffering

of Gazans. They are the ones who used aid to build the wide grid of tunnels under hospitals and schools and homes while determining that only they could hide there.

What, exactly, did Hamas gain? Israel took advantage of the war to decapitated Hezbollah and weaken Iran.

[Ping Tung]

12. All the murderer of the kid had to do was not pull the trigger or drop the bomb.

Blaming the victims is a piss poor excuse for killing people.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus

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14. All Hamas had to do was not attack the Israeli homes. You show a body in shrouds, the families of

the Israeli massacred on October 7 did not even have bodies. Only charred remains that took months to identify.

And many victims, raped and decapitated had their images on their own facebooks, posted by their murderers.

Easy to sit here, using computers to quote a philosopher. When you start a war there will be innocent people dying. Hamas knew that Israel would retaliate. What did they expect?

[Ping Tung]

18. What did they expect? What does the rest of the world expect? Not genocide in Gaza.

It's like vigilantes coming into a neighborhood searching for burglars and shooting everyone in sight and burning down their houses and then starving the survivors no matter how old, how innocent, they are.

Do you disagree with what the philosopher said about killing innocent people?

Try a scientist.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

[JoseBalow]

16. She's alienating a lot of people who used to admire her for her climate work