Recently, Greta Thunberg was arrested at a protest outside the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This was not Thunberg’s first run-in with the law; the first time she was detained was during a protest against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. Ironically, Germany would hardly need to expand the use of coal were it not for the country’s rejection of nuclear power, something Greta herself belatedly admitted.
Yet her latest arrest was very different: Greta was arrested not for protesting environmental destruction but for blocking the entry to a university that had refused to cut ties with Israel. The cooperation between the University of Copenhagen and an Israeli university was, in part, to develop green tech. Yet, according to the world’s most famous environmentalist, even this noble goal apparently does not justify collaborating with “Zionists.”
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