US EditionAll Aboard the “Selfie Yacht”: How the Media Fueled a PR Stunt Masquerading as Activism
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All Aboard the “Selfie Yacht”: How the Media Fueled a PR Stunt Masquerading as Activism
On June 1, Swedish climate change activist turned anti-Israel agitator Greta Thunberg and eleven fellow travelers attempted to sail their way to the Gaza Strip. Packed with less than a single truck’s worth of aid, this tiny boat should not have garnered the international media’s attention. But over the course of the crew’s nine-day vacation, Greta and her friends made headlines everywhere. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hone…
Neither Greta Thunberg's sea escapade to Gaza nor her detention by Israel has changed the fate of the Palestinians in any way. And what if the crew of the celebrity yacht, busy with their own activist magnificence, focuses more on saving their own position than on saving Gaza? The Swede's media fame has been fading since her Job-like predictions about the climatic end of the world have become commonplace, if not downright discredited.
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