After joining a so-called “Freedom Flotilla” intended to breach the naval blockade off the coast of Gaza, Thunberg and three other activists were deported by Israeli authorities this week. Their expulsion came after they refused to watch footage of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 Israelis and stands as the bloodiest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Defense Minister Israel Katz made it crystal clear: if you’re going to enter a war zone to lecture Israel on morality, you will first be confronted with the realities of what Israel is defending itself against.
Eight other activists who refused to sign deportation papers remain in detention, pending court hearings. But Thunberg? She took the easier route—sign, leave, and fly home on the very aircraft she’s spent years condemning. Irony, it seems, flies economy class.
The footage of Thunberg being escorted out of the country, scowling and tight-lipped, stands in stark contrast to the grandiose tone she used just days earlier. Prior to departure, she told reporters, “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 livestreamed genocide.”
🚨𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆:
Greta Thunberg seen onboard flight at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport after being DEPORTED from Israel. pic.twitter.com/VJZqFp485k
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 10, 2025
Those were her words. Genocide. A term carelessly tossed around to score applause on social media, while actual genocide survivors and the families of those murdered in southern Israel are still mourning.
Let’s be clear: this “Freedom Flotilla” was never about delivering aid—it was about delivering a message, and that message was open hostility to Israel’s right to defend itself. If this were about supplies, there are established humanitarian routes and channels.
But Thunberg and her entourage didn’t want quiet diplomacy—they wanted Instagrammable confrontation, complete with tearful speeches and dramatic headlines. And when it came time to actually confront the truth—footage of the blood-soaked atrocities committed by Hamas—they looked away.
Israel, to its credit, didn’t flinch. The blockade remains. The law was enforced. And now, Thunberg has been sent home to Sweden via France, no doubt to be welcomed by sympathetic media and activist circles who will praise her “courage” while ignoring the cowardice it took to walk away from the evidence she refused to acknowledge.
