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Greta Thunberg’s latest act of “performative compassion” really is beyond the pale, says Jonathan Sacerdoti in The Spectator. The Swedish “climate whinger turned omni-cause moral voice” set out with 11 other activists to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Naturally, they failed: Israeli forces peacefully intercepted their yacht, the Madleen, and provided the group with water and sandwiches (“individually wrapped in plastic, sorry Greta”). So what, exactly, did all this achieve?
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