By Philip Fabian and Luisa Volkhausen
What the FFF has been saying recently seems to have little to do with climate protection – but to what extent is the movement still radicalizing?
During her Friday demonstration in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Greta Thunberg (20) and her colleagues hold up numerous posters. Only one referred to the climate, all the others to “Palestine” – and that in the most radical sense.
AND: Fridays for Future international has also spread anti-Semitism and Hamas-speak AGAIN on Instagram.
Terror expert: Take the danger seriously
Terrorism expert Bettina Röhl sees Greta Thunberg as an “heiress to the 1968 movement” and warns in BILD: “She adopted some of the left-wing anti-Semitism of the time.”
Röhl makes it clear: “The Palestinians in Gaza are tools of Iran, and the West’s children à la ‘Fridays for Future’ are their welcome idiots.”
Dangerous: During the 1968 movement, some flew to Palestinian military facilities in Jordan to be trained in the fight against terrorism. “Many later became terrorists or Palestinian agents in the West,” said Röhl. She suspects that some of them even helped plan the Olympic attack in Munich (1972).
“The middle-class children of the time didn’t think that either,” says Röhl. However, she does not want to say that FFF is on the path to terrorism.
But: “The organization de facto shows solidarity with the Hamas terrorists – obviously with an extremely primitive basic knowledge. At the same time, activists have a penchant for extreme attitudes. I think that’s a dangerous combination that needs to be taken seriously.”
Terror expert Neumann: Rift within the climate protection movement
Are climate activists now breaking with FFF because of anti-Semitism?
Yes, says terror expert Peter Neumann. He sees a very clear rift within the climate protection movement. “Between supporters who are primarily committed to fighting climate change and those for whom climate protection is just part of a broader, far-left and typically anti-capitalist agenda,” said Neumann.
And he explains: “The second group sees Israel as the bridgehead of a racist, Western-colonialist project and approves of the fight against the country as ‘anti-imperialism’. Greta Thunberg, who initially belonged to the ‘real’ climate protectors, has radicalized towards this second group in recent years.”
For Fridays for Future – especially in Germany – this is “a huge challenge that could lead to a split in the movement,” said the expert.
The “Fridays for Future” branch in Germany recently distanced itself from the international account’s contributions. The German FFF frontwoman Luisa Neubauer (27) criticized Thunberg for the first time on Monday – because she remained silent about the Hamas terrorist bloodbath in Israel.
In an interview with “Zeit Online,” Neubauer said: “The fact that Greta Thunberg hasn’t said anything concrete about the Jewish victims of the massacre on October 7th disappoints me.”
Josef Schuster (69), President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, demands more from Fridays for Future Germany and Luisa Neubauer (27). He said to BILD: “I expect a real decoupling from Luisa Neubauer and Fridays for Future Germany, a change of name of the organization and the breaking off of all contacts with Fridays for Future International.”