Notorious climate activist Greta Thunberg sat out the latest flotilla to Gaza earlier this spring, but her professed care for the “suffering and oppression of people” may mean her next voyage is to another hotspot: the Strait of Hormuz.
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Thunberg hasn’t said why she skipped the virtue-signaling Gaza pilgrimage. It would have been her third voyage to protest Israel for having the audacity to defend itself from terrorists.
It’s possible she was too busy gearing up for, as President Trump recently put it, “a little excursion in Iran.” Perhaps she is ditching the Gaza Freedom Flotilla for the Iran Freedom Flotilla to support the oppressed Iranian people — particularly its mistreated women — against their dictatorial leaders.
After all, Thunberg’s concerns about the environment would make Iran a logical target for her protests. In the past two months, the Iranian regime has risked countless environmental disasters and caused at least one by bombing four gas facilities, nine oil refineries, and multiple oil tankers.
Greta prefers to let others do the talking. That was the case when Iran’s terrorist affiliate, the Houthis, used an Iranian missile to sink the Rubymar in 2024, causing one of history’s worst environmental disasters. Greta, withdrawn as usual, declined to comment.
Like most shy people, she spends her free time excoriating and yelling at world leaders at the United Nations, seizing government buildings, and doing hundreds of interviews. When it comes to the Iranian regime, she reverts to her introverted ways.
Maybe Greta Thunberg has, in recent months, developed a case of seasickness. That could explain why she didn’t set sail in January to protest Iranian leaders’ mass killing of their people. She may soon embark on a voyage to oppose Iran’s plan to eradicate Jews — I mean, Zionists — and usher in the end times. But, then again, she has more pressing matters to attend to, like pouring food dye into Venice’s canals.
Of course, in reality, Greta is not concerned with the world’s worst of the worst. She prefers to condemn those without a track record of killing people.
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When Greta sanctimoniously questioned Western heads of state with her “how dare you” line and declared, “we will not let you get away with this” for their crime of disagreeing with her, Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons to destroy America and Israel. When Greta shamed world leaders for supposedly throwing away her future, the Iranian regime was plotting to destroy the Western world.
Greta, who had a cloistered upbringing thanks to her Swedish leftist millionaire parents, is oblivious to the world’s biggest threats: a nuclear Iran and Tehran’s backers in China. Her selective activism includes obfuscating the Iranian regime’s brutality towards women. Whether she intends to or not, Greta is siding with evil regimes and terrorist groups over America and its allies.
Deep down, Greta probably knows all this. Who in their right mind would use a flotilla to invade the maritime territory of Israel if it really was a genocidal regime? Greta’s environmentalism morphed into anti-Zionism for one simple reason: it’s the new fad. By wading into Middle East geopolitics, attention-seeking activists like Greta ventured into a topic they comprehend even less than the climate.
When is Greta venturing out to confront the real cause of the Middle East conflict? Iran funds Hezb’allah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Will Greta reprimand Iran’s mullahs, like she has berated other world leaders?
Sailing to Gaza is out. Greta should sail off to the Strait of Hormuz and face the center of world terrorism next.
Sydney Rodman is a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Center for Energy and Conservation, and founder and CEO of Green Revival LLC.
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