gathering of pro-Palestinian students dispersed due to the arrival of Greta Thunberg

German justice dispersed a pro-Palestinian student camp in Dortmund on Tuesday evening due to the announced arrival of Greta Thunberg, fueling controversy in Germany against the Swedish climate activist for her hostile positions towards Israel. “Recent events linked to the person of Thunberg have led to the assessment that she is a participant ready to resort to violence”justified the police of this town in western Germany. The muse of the Fridays for Future movement participated Monday in a demonstration in Berlin in favor of the Palestinian cause organized a year after the Hamas massacre against Israelis, which left 1,206 deaths, mainly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures which includes hostages taken dead or killed in captivity. According to Berlin police, participants threw bottles at the police and chanted anti-Israeli slogans.

“I was invited by the student camp for Palestine in Dortmund to participate in a round table. Shortly after they posted a photo announcing the event, the police came to tell them that they had to leave, and that I would be arrested if I went.”reacted Greta Thunberg in a video message on her X account. The 21-year-old young woman, wearing a black and white keffiyeh on her shoulders, accused Germany of “silencing and threatening activists who speak out against the genocide and occupation of Palestine”. A spokesperson for the Conservative parliamentary group demanded on Wednesday that she be banned from entering German territory. “There is no place in Germany for those who hate Jews like Greta Thunberg”said Alexander Throm in the popular newspaper Bild.

After the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, Israel launched massive bombings against Gaza, an enclave ruled by the Islamist movement, causing the deaths of 42,010 people, including civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, and a catastrophe humanitarian. Fridays for Future has taken up the cause of the Palestinians and repeatedly denounced a “genocide” in Gaza. The German section of the organization had dissociated itself from the movement, regretting the absence of a concrete declaration from Greta Thunberg on the Jewish victims of the October 7 massacre. In Germany, Israel’s security has been elevated to the status of “reason of state” given the country’s historical responsibility in the Shoah.