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How dare you?!’ humiliated Andrew Tate snaps back at Greta Thunberg after teenage eco-warrior says the Big Brother contestant-turned-influencer has 'small d*** energy' and should 'get a life' in savage putdown” (Daily Mail).

That was the headline in the Daily Mail in December of 2022. 

Thunberg and Tate’s conflict was entertaining for some. The then 20-year-old Thunberg is a Swedish environmentalist who enthralled the UN at the age of 16 about climate change. She has inspired millions to cut down their carbon emissions. Thunberg is as progressive as it gets. By contrast, Andrew Tate was the third most Googled man in the world in 2023. He is a proud convert to Islam and has forged a masculinist movement that is as toxic as the carbon emissions that Thunberg protests. As the ADL concluded in a recent report, Tate preaches that women are inferior to men and are only good for helping men build their status. 

What could these two influencers possibly have in common? 

Today, over a year since their original spat, Thunberg and Tate have found common ground. She chants crush zionism and accuses Israel of genocide, while Tate is certain that Hamas is not a terror organization and also accuses Israel of genocide.

These two peoples’ narratives terrify me. And not because of their stance on climate change and not because I am terrified of a rethinking of traditional masculinity. I am writing because I am scared for us, the Jews, for antisemitism seems to have gone mainstream. I am scared that the girl who is hailed by former President Barack Obama as one of the world’s greatest activists, denies Israel the right to defend itself. I am scared that Tate’s content, which 50 percent of the US population has viewed, accuses Brooklyn’s Jewish community of child sex trafficking. I am scared that hating Israel and the Jews is the only thing that everyone can seem to agree on today – even rivals like Thunberg and Tate.

 To me, to us, to the Jews, it feels like walls are caving in. We used to feel antisemitism only on the extremes of the left and right, but now we feel it edging closer and closer to a new middle. We feel it no matter how little to the left or right we glance. We no longer must scan far off to recognize antisemitism. Now it's just a glance away.

Image Source: https://uzalendonews.co.ke/tate-gets-slammed-by-activist-greta-thunberg/

Climate Change

by Leo Markman

February 2, 2024