The Apocalyptic Style in Woke Thinking

G reta Thunberg was detained last month in Germany , during a sit-in at a munitions factory that sells weapons to Israel.

She was wearing a Yalla Intifada T-shirt.

Perhaps you thought Thunberg was a climate activist.

She used to be.

Thunberg gained fame by warning that greenhouse-gas emissions posed a threat to human life so urgent and existential that the world must put aside trifling concerns to solve it immediately.

“I want you to panic.

I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.

And then I want you to act.

I want you to act as you would in a crisis.

I want you to act as if the house was on fire.

Because it is,” she told the World Economic Forum in 2019.

But someone else will have to put out the fire, because these days, Thunberg is possibly the planet’s most famous anti-Israel protester.

Much of the climate movement—particularly its most radical elements—has pivoted to Palestine.

The Climate Justice Alliance, Extinction Rebellion, and Climate Defiance, among other green organizations, participate regularly in Free Palestine demonstrations.