Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government.

The report contains an analysis of 10 “prominent influencers in the global anti-semitic and anti-Zionist arena in 2025, who were selected based on both the severity of their actions/statements and the scope of their influence.” While outside organizations have created similar rankings of antisemitic influencers, this appears to be the first one published by the Israeli government.

As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”

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      6 days ago

      Unfortunately, in every sense of the word, Israelis are “semites”. Being a “semite” isn’t a value judgement and trying to dismiss the label of antisemitism because of Israel’s misuse of the word is not that smart.

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          5 days ago

          They speak a semitic language and their supposed biblical stemfather is Shem. Those are the two definitions of a semitic people. Whether a large part of Israeli Jews have European ancestry is irrelevant to what a semite is.

          Again, semite isn’t a value judgement.

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            a fake language thats so new some people are older than it. “supposed stemfather” i guess it was like promised to them 3000 years ago too whether the entire ancestry of Israelis is European is very relevant.

            they are not native nor have any connection to the land nor semites in any way shape or form unless you go back hundreds of thousands of years.

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              Mate. Semite is defined in two ways. One is the definition of 18th century scholars, who classified every arab and Jew as Semites because their biblical stemfather is Shem. And the modern definition of “speaking a semitic language”. And according to both, Israelis are semites.

              Whatever you define as a semite is not tied to anything right now.

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                  Hebrew is a reconstructed language and a semitic one. The majority of Israelis have European ancestry or have been lured in from there, but there are also middle eastern Jews among them. Which once again, has nothing to do with the definition of semites.

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                    3 days ago

                    west asia’s jews/muslims/christians are Semitic and native to the land. israel is an illegal country, israelis are occupying Palestine.