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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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She’s 22. Young? Sure. Little kid? No.
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.
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.
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.