Released flotilla activist says Israeli authorities "dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair... beat her" and "made her suffer"
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/10/04/greta-thunberg-israel/
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8 Comments
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 309d
That is a terrible thing to experience. I hope Greta will be ok after this.
officermike@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d
She's 22. Young? Sure. Little kid? No.
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 53 pts · 310d
That's your takeaway from this article?
You're not incorrect, but I don't feel like this is an appropriate place to be criticizing someone's statements about brutality.
Hubi@feddit.org · 16 pts · 310d
Criticizing the source is justified IMO. If they frame something easily verifieable like Thunberg's age like this, it severely limits their credibility right out of the gate. I don't doubt the actual contents of the statement, but embellishing the story like this hurts only their own cause and freely hands an angle of attack to their enemies.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 310d
That statement was made by Ersin Celik, Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant, not The Canary. All they did was quote the source in full.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 309d
Ersin Celik was born in 1982 making him about 43 (depending on month born).
I can fully understand why he would view a small 22 year old as a little kid. She's half his age.
You can be fully aware someone is a grown adult and at the same time pity them as just a kid, especially one being tortured by a genocidal state.
absentbird@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
He's old enough to be her dad. Of course she seems like a child from his perspective, if he has a child they're likely about her age.
Butler@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 310d
It's a quote. It's what someone said to reporters. It's not framing