More voices rose against environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Germany on Monday after she called for an “immediate truce” and waved a black and white bonnet during a climate rally in Amsterdam the day before.

Activist Greta Thunberg called for an “immediate truce” in the Middle East on Sunday during an environmental march that drew some 70,000 people in the Dutch city of Amsterdam to demand more attention from the authorities on climate change, with ten days to go. Before early elections in the Netherlands, France-Presse reports, citing Agerpres.

“As a climate justice movement, we must listen to the voices of those who are oppressed and those who fight for freedom and justice,” she told the crowd.

Greta Thunberg was interrupted by a man who tried to snatch the microphone from her, saying that she had come to an environmental demonstration – organized by a coalition that brought together, among others, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, Oxfam and Greenpeace – and “it’s not his political point vision”.

“The end of Greta Thunberg as a climate activist”

In Germany, where Israel’s security is seen as a “raison d’être” because of the country’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust, the episode sparked a backlash, with some criticizing her for taking a perceived pro-Palestinian stance in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

It marks “the end of Greta Thunberg as a climate activist,” said Volker Becker, president of DIG, a German-Israeli friendship group. “Hatred of Israel is its main reason,” he added.

The Israeli embassy in Germany said it was “disappointed (by the fact that Greta Thunberg is using the climate scene for personal purposes).

The German branch of the movement started by Greta is “disappointed”

Following Israel’s bombing of Gaza following bloody attacks on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Fridays for Future condemned the “genocide” in Gaza and criticized “Western support and disinformation machines”.

The president of the organization’s German branch, Louise Neubauer, distanced herself from the claims, saying recently that she was “disappointed that Greta Thunberg has nothing concrete to say about the Jewish victims of the October 7 massacre.”

Greta Thunberg has been “extremely rational and perceptive” in the past, but now the movement will have to examine “who else we have a basis for cooperation with, based on shared values,” Louise Neubauer also said.

“It is obvious that (…) world realities regarding Israel and Palestine diverge. But this does not justify anti-Semitism or disinformation,” she warned.

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