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Thunberg was one of a group of 20 protesters who demonstrated inside a university administration building. Five people were arrested in addition to Thunberg, according to Danish media.

Greta Thunberg has made me sad that I helped to start the youth climate movement because of this crap and since they stopped listening to us scientists and trained communicators so have failed to accomplish much of anything.

The group condemns the Niels Bohr Institute because Bohr had Jewish ancestry, I guess?

@Ifrauding
It's not worth trying to figure out. I've not seen enough information to actually conclude their intentions beyond the broadest context.

The article I got the photo from alleged that their actions were related to Bohr's Jewish heritage, but I do not know if that is true.

I am of the opinion that Hamas is at fault for what is happening in Gaza and I also agree with what Einstein warned long ago that the Likud Party has fascist roots.

@jerry @GreenFire She's a white Aryan Swede with no migration background. This is not about integration; this is about traditional European anti-Semitism.

@Alon @jerry
I'm not willing to assert that I know the motivations. I do know that the actions are not helpful though which makes me wonder if she's starting to get paid from some nefarious actors perhaps.

@GreenFire @jerry I online-know enough people with these views that I suspect she's a true believer. Her going to a tiny protest with a red triangle group in Germany when she could with her star power turn out 10 times as many people with regular Palestine flags suggests to me she's just anti-Semitic.

@Alon
@GreenFire @jerry
Danish and Swedish media don't mention any anti-Semitic motives for this particular demonstration, though.

@GreenFire Thanks.
Although the article doesn't say that the group is condemning the Niels Bohr Institute because Bohr was of Jewish descent. That would be a really crazy reason.

@leobm
As I understand it, Greta Thunberg was protesting the Niels Bohr Institute because they are collaborating with an Israeli university to measure paleoclimate or something I guess.

I just think that her actions have been harming the climate action movement for a while and wish she had of stuck to global warming.

@GreenFire I completely agree with you. Although she has every right to demonstrate against Israel if she thinks it's a good idea. But if she attacks the institute only because it was named after a Jewish scientist, then that would really be anti-Semitic. Yes, it's a bit of a shame that she got a bit carried away, she could have achieved more for the climate movement. But it is maybe unfair to accuse her of that, without her the climate movement would not have received so much attention.

@leobm
Greta Thunberg is entirely capable of defending herself from allegations of antisemitism if she so chooses. Her free speech is way, way louder than most people's.

She got that loudspeaker from people like me who helped take her from 100 followers when I started tweeting her and getting celebrities to support her #ClimateStrike movement to the millions she now has so I'm not hesitant to express my opinion on how I view her actions.

@anrothelf @GreenFire @leobm all of this and not one mention of more than 30,000 people dead in mostly civilian circumstances treated as mere collateral damage. I’m a strong advocate for protecting the climate, but I appreciate the activism to try to stop the killing. Is it not entirely reasonable that someone with the foresight to care for the global climate to also care and take action for the immediate danger to thousands of people?

@aardvark @anrothelf @leobm
Yes, I've been calling for Hamas to stop the killing for a long time too.

@anrothelf @GreenFire @aardvark @leobm
Wow, so Israel would not be blowing up starving toddlers if the Palestinians had elections?

Fascinating.

That is completely divorced from reality, but it's amusing that you are willing to humiliate yourself by using that argument in public like that.

@tofugolem@mastodon.social @GreenFire@mstdn.social @aardvark@ioc.exchange @leobm@norden.social Done with your bad faith trolling. Enjoy my block list!

@aardvark
Have you seen a statement from Greta Thunberg explaining why she blocked the climate research at the Neils Bohr institute? I made an assumption. That does not require a citation.

@sqwabb
I haven't smeared anyone or have you seen her publish an explanation of why she chose to block the Niels Bohr Institute's research of paleoclimate or are you saying that it is a smear for me to say that I think Tucker Carlson is a racist?

@GreenFire Don't be such a weasel. You stated that the group organizing the protest Thunberg was involved with - and I quote you:

"...condemns the Niels Bohr Institute because Bohr had Jewish ancestry."

You provided NO evidence. You just made the unsubstatiated claim. That's a pure smear job. Should be ashamed of yourself!

@cy
How many anti-Israel protestors have been arrested this semester?