Henry Bogdanowicz

  Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences | Bachelor Arts and Culture

Greta Thunberg and Palestine Solidarity: Intersectional Climate Justice Meets the Colonial Limits of Acceptable Activism in German Media

Henry's elevator pitch
Greta Thunberg, who is best known for her climate activism within Fridays for Future, has recently received significant negative media attention for supporting the liberation of Palestine. In my thesis, I analysed how her activism with FFF and her pro-Palestinian activism are portrayed differently in the German media. The examined themes show that her climate activism within FFF was institutionally supported and idealized, with Greta herself being framed as youthfully innocent and exceptional. Her Palestine solidarity, on the other hand, was decontextualized, deemed antisemitic, disruptive and threatening, uncovering the colonial Orientalist and Eurocentric limits of acceptable activism in German media.