Lindsey Graham has said he hopes the activist, who is sailing to Gaza to protest the Israeli naval blockade, can swim.
Joining the flotilla that aims to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip may end badly for Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, US Senator Lindsey Graham has warned in a post on X.
On Sunday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FCC) announced that one of its yachts, crewed by 12 people, including Thunberg, had left Sicily for Gaza with a “symbolic” cargo of humanitarian aid.
“Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” wrote Graham, a staunch supporter of Israel and an ally of US President Donald Trump, apparently implying that Thunberg’s boat, the Madleen, could be sunk.
The previous Freedom Flotilla mission was aborted in early May after one of the boats, named Conscience, was hit by two drones in international waters near Malta. The FCC blamed Israel for the attack. Israel did not comment.
Thunberg said before her departure that “no matter how dangerous this mission is, it is nowhere near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the lives being genocized [sic],” in the Gaza Strip.
Hope Greta and her friends can swim!https://t.co/Noab4QyJtV
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 1, 2025
Israel has denied accusations of perpetrating genocide, and has blamed the brutal suffering of the Palestinian population on the unwillingness of Hamas to lay down arms. West Jerusalem has justified the naval blockade of Gaza, in place since 2007, by the need to prevent arms deliveries to the Palestinian fighters.
According to the UN, one in five people in the Gaza Strip is now facing starvation, following a renewed Israeli offensive that began in March.
What would Sweden do is a Swedish Citizen was murdered by the IDF on the High Seas in International Waters?
Another USS Liberty scenario, blended with a Rachel Corrie incident?
Israel can go fuck itself, and the politicians who have been bribed, blackmailed or coerced into supporting the war criminal ‘State of Israel can do the same!!!
Already happened before. Swedish royal Folke Bernadotte was murdered by the IDF’s predecessors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte#:~:text=Colonel%20Andr%C3%A9%20Serot.-,Planning%20and%20background,proposals%2C%20which%20it%20considered%20disastrous.
Israel are experts at murder. They’ve done it before and will do it again and again.