The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg denied she was antisemitic as she prepared to set sail on Sunday on a flotilla looking to break Israel’s naval blockade and bring humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In June, she was part of a failed attempt to reach the Strip after her yacht was intercepted by the Israeli navy.
Interviewed by Sky News before the new flotilla’s departure from Spain, she said, "It is not antisemitic to say that we should not be bombing people, that one should not be living in occupation, that everyone should have the right to live in freedom and dignity, no matter who you are.”
When Thunberg and her fellow activists were detained before being deportation from Israel, the country’s defence minister, Israel Katz, ordered that they should be shown footage of the October 7 Hamas massacre.
