A man disrupted climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speech during Sunday’s demonstration in Amsterdam.
A demonstration to combat climate change took place in the capital of the Netherlands on Sunday. Participants demanded that governments take immediate action to halt global warming. The event was attended by former European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans and climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Interrupted speech
During Thunberg’s speech, a man stormed onto the stage and tried to grab the activist’s microphone. He stated that ‘he came here for a climate demonstration, not for political views.’ Just before that, Thunberg invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to the stage, which was probably interpreted by the attacker as a political manifesto. Before the incident, the slogan was “Palestine will be free”.
The man’s intrusion onto the stage was not the only disruption to the activist’s speech. Earlier in the meeting, organizers interrupted Thunberg’s speech after she used the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to Reuters news agency.
Many Jewish groups say the slogan used at demonstrations around the world is a call to destroy Israel. Pro-Palestinian activists claim that most of those who founded them are calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza, not the elimination of Israel itself.
After the man was removed from the stage, Thunberg joined the crowd and chanted “no climate justice in the occupied territories.”
Last month, a Swedish climate activist came under fire after sharing pro-Palestinian posts on social media, with some accusing her of failing to show support for the Israeli victims of Hamas attacks.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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