Again? Greta Sails to Gaza in Defiant Challenge

She built her name demanding action on climate change. Now Greta Thunberg has steered her platform into one the most explosive conflict on earth.

And once again, this time from Barcelona, Spain’s second-largest and staunchly anti-Israel city, the 22-year-old will set out with dozens of boats under the banner of ‘breaking Israel’s siege on Gaza,’.

It is her second attempt. The first, in June, ended when Israeli naval forces boarded her vessel without incident, escorting it to port as officials mocked the operation as little more than a “selfie yacht.” Undeterred, Thunberg now insists this flotilla will succeed, calling governments that support Israel “traitors not only to Palestinians but to humanity.”

Abandoning climate advocacy for political theater, she is now lending her celebrity to groups with a long record of staging anti-Israel spectacles that rarely deliver aid and almost always draw headlines. And so, even european activists are showing signs of discomfort with how quickly her global brand has shifted from environmental urgency to Middle East confrontation.

For Israel, the move is familiar.

Officials have long treated such flotillas as propaganda missions, intercepting them at sea before they reach Gaza.

For Thunberg, it is another moment in the spotlight, but one that risks defining her less as a climate activist and more as a provocateur.