Thunberg: Ah, We Were Hit By a Drone! Tunisia: A Drone? Thunberg: … We Got Better

If you got the joke in the headline, kudos to you, dear reader! If not, all will be revealed in the end.

As many already know, the world’s most famous performance artist/professional scold, Greta Thunberg, decided to make another jaunt in the Mediterranean to challenge the Israeli blockade on Gaza. The last time Thunberg tried this, she and her crew ran afoul of the IDF’s naval forces and ended up with a cold sandwich and a hot ticket back home from Tel Aviv. Thunberg claimed she’d been kidnapped nonetheless, even though Sweden might have been inclined to pay Israel to keep her. 

Having been “kidnapped” in June didn’t keep Thunberg from trying another drama-queen adventure on the Med, however. She and another crew set out from Tunisia to once again scold-face her way through a naval blockade, but this time she didn’t even come close to her destination. Instead, Thunberg and her team claimed to have been attacked by a drone off the Tunisian coast:

A flotilla carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg on an aid mission to Gaza has claimed one of their boats was hit by a “drone strike” off the coast of Tunisia on Tuesday morning.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)’s Family Boat, which is said to be transporting Greta and some 350 other activists, sustained damage to its main deck and below-deck storage when it was struck by what activists said was a suspected drone. They added nobody was hurt in the incident. …

“I was sleeping when I heard this explosion,” said journalist Yusuf Omar, who is among the dozens of activists heading towards Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade. “A big explosion happened right next to our diesel tank. The neighbouring boats spotted a drone coming in. They said it flew above basically where I was sleeping, and then it went to the front and detonated,” he said in a post on Instagram.

A drone attack? Why would anyone waste a drone on Thunberg and her collection of idiots? And why would they do so off the coast of Tunisia, which is at least 1500 miles by sea to Israel? Nevertheless, that’s the claim being made by the “flotilla,” which also allegedly pushed out this video of the aftermath of the “attack.” Note the handy use of the camera, which seems to have been the first priority of the videographer, even before a life jacket or determining whether to abandon the ship:

One of Greta’s flotilla ships stages fake drone attack with a flare

🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Y1xCrielyw

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 9, 2025

If you thought this started to look like Thunberg’s “kidnapping,” you’re not alone. The Tunisians report that there were no drones in the area, and that they suspect the fire began in a life jacket:

Tunisian authorities have denied claims that one of the Gaza-bound vessels carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists including Greta Thunberg was attacked by a drone. …

Tunisia’s National Guard spokesman told Mosaique FM radio that reports of a drone attack on the flotilla “have no basis in truth”, Reuters reported.

He added that an initial inspection indicated the explosion originated inside the vessel.

The actual ‘drone,’ Tunisian authorities say, may have been … a cigarette:

Another eyewitness told the outlet: “I saw a drone dropping a bomb on us. There was a fire on the front deck that we fought. It is out now. Everybody’s safe.”

But Tunisian officials have expressed frustration at the claim that the boat was targeted by a drone.

Houcem Eddine Jebabli, a spokesperson for the Tunisian national guard, told AFP that those reports “have no basis in truth.” He added that preliminary findings suggested the blaze started in a stack of life jackets, possibly triggered by a cigarette.

In other words, this is yet another staged performative stunt attempting to falsify evidence against Israel, in a war started with mass murder, rapes, and other atrocities by Hamas terrorists. Thunberg and her group of morons apparently have a lot of time on their hands, but not quite enough time to demand that Hamas release the hostages they kidnapped on October 7, 2023. And as usual, the global media lapped it up, as they always do with the strange and benighted Swede whom they have turned into a martyr for Gaia and now for terrorism. 

Truly, you can’t detest these frauds enough … except for the amusement that their stunts provide. Someone get Thunberg another cold sandwich and make her row to Malta, please. 

And now …  the reveal, at the 1:07 mark of this classic scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The real question at this point is whether Thunberg weighs as much as a duck, in which case she’s made of wood, and therefore … wouldn’t need a life jacket, even one without a cigarette burn. It’s a fair cop.

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