Greta Thunberg, along with 400+ activists, has reportedly been abducted and detained by Israel for committing the crime of attempting to bring baby formula to Gaza.

A report from The Guardian said Greta was being “kept in a cell infested with bedbugs” and denied adequate food and water. The Swedish embassy met with Greta and confirmed these reports.

Another member of the Flotilla said that he saw her being forced to hold the Israeli flag for photos.

“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” said Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla.

Journalist and detainee, Lorenzo D’Agostino, reported that he had seen Greta ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy.’

As repugnant as these reports are, none of them should come as a surprise.

Israel murdered prominent Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. It has killed hundreds of doctors, nurses and more journalists than in any conflict since World War II. Its snipers have targeted and shot children in the head and neck and shot different body parts of civilians for fun. It has used rape as a weapon against detainees. It has all but leveled Gaza, destroying nearly every school, apartment block, bakery, church, mosque, university, farm, water and sewage treatment facility and historic site. And it has in all likelihood murdered hundreds of thousands of people.

But the animus toward this one young woman has been off the scale. In fact, many Western politicians and media figures have openly voiced their disdain for her and even made veiled threats or wished ill-treatment upon her, from Piers Morgan to Lindsay Graham. Indeed, they are all complicit in their collaboration with the genocidal state.

But even as its wealthy supporters try desperately to change the narrative by buying up every news and social media site it can and censoring content, or throwing money at whatever lowlife influencer will do their biding, or by hiring shameless, no talent propagandists like Bari Weiss, Israel has lost the PR battle. Its main adversary has always been itself. It turns out, you cannot livestream the annihilation of a people and then expect most decent human beings to still support you, welcome you in their countries, or visit your resorts that are built over mass graves.

Greta Thunberg has been laughed at and disparaged by the political and media elite. But this is one of her greatest achievements. Their mockery, in a time where we are witness to their unspeakable evil, sycophancy, avarice and apathy is a badge of honour. Her integrity and courage has helped us all see them for the pile of pustulous parasitic worms they are.

Kenn Orfanos, October 2025