Once-beloved climate teen Greta Thunberg seems like aging child star in Gaza activism turn, critics

Some supporters are distancing themselves from the Swedish activist, and others are lamenting the loss of a poster child for the climate cause.

Supporters of Israel are calling her an antisemite. Stop Antisemitism on Monday voted Thunberg the “Antisemite of the Week.”

Jeff Reynolds, climate researcher at Restoration of America, told Just the News that the climate celebrity is changing strategies as her popularity wanes.

“I think that as she struggles to find relevance, as she advances in her adulthood, she’s going to meet with – and I’m not rooting for this – but I think it’s not going to be pretty when she realizes she no longer has any influence,” Reynolds said.

Thunberg entered the celebrity spotlight in 2019 by shaming leaders at the United Nations – “How dare you?” – for not doing enough to stop consumers from using fossil fuels while, she claimed, “people are dying” as a result of global warming.

Even though deaths from climate-related natural disasters are at historic lows, a fawning press portrayed her as the climate messiah of a new environmental religion. Time voted her the 2019 Person of the Year, with the online article headed with a video of the teen gazing determinedly into the distance.

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks on Israel, which killed nearly 1,200 people including almost 800 civilians, Thunberg began expressing her support for Gaza, a territory adjacent to Israel that in home to Palestinians and the militant group Hamas that governs them.

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