Swedish climate and human rights activist Greta Thunberg departed Israel on a flight to France after being detained by Israeli forces aboard an aid ship bound for Gaza.
This. While those deaths were notable and tragic, they weren’t “celebrity deaths”, which pains me to even say, but it is true.
Greta is essentially an international celebrity at this point, not just some noteworthy activist. Her death would be much more noticeable throughout the modern zeitgeist than a random activist who happened to be American.
Probably because they dont want to turn her into a martyr…
Alternatively its because killing a white western girl with a recognisable name is more difficult to justify over here and they are VERY aware of this
Didn’t stop them with this one. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5106819/us-israel-american-woman-shooting-west-bank
She wasn’t internationally famous.
This. While those deaths were notable and tragic, they weren’t “celebrity deaths”, which pains me to even say, but it is true.
Greta is essentially an international celebrity at this point, not just some noteworthy activist. Her death would be much more noticeable throughout the modern zeitgeist than a random activist who happened to be American.
Or this one in 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
Another reason would probably be she’s too old for IDF scumbags, murdering any child above 12 yo doesn’t do it for them.
I figured it was a North Korea / Blazing Saddles move.
There are plenty of right-wingers in the west (including several politicians) who would love to see her
unalived.killed.Killed. The word you’re looking for is “killed”.
This isn’t tiktok, we can use big boy language here.
Sorry. I didn’t wanna risk getting banned. But then this isn’t Reddit, either so I’m probably safe. I’ll fix it.