Climate leader criticizes media treatment of Thunberg
Climate activist Luisa Neubauer takes part in a protest by the climate protection movement Fridays for Future. Annette Riedl/dpa

German climate activist Luisa Neubauer criticized the media's treatment of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg after Thunberg made statements on the war in Gaza. "I am not trying to justify that Greta did not mention Jewish suffering at all," she told the taz newspaper. "But Greta is also a projection screen for a media world that has long sought in her what no human being can be. And now this media world is astonished that Greta is not this someone she never wanted to be either." Thunberg has expressed her solidarity with Palestine since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, b...