# Thunberg’s reaction to Berlin climate protest sparks debate over her movement’s direction

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/greta-thunberg-laughs-at-protesters-still-participating-in-fridays-for-future-the-climate-movement-she-started-before-focusing-on-gaza-theyre-still-doing-that/
- Published: 2026-11-12T14:28:55+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T14:47:58+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16286901/Greta-Thunberg-laughs-protesters-participating-Fridays-Future-climate-movement-started-focusing-Gaza-Theyre-doing-that.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Climate, Middle East, Science, World

## Key points

- Thunberg laughed on camera at news of a Fridays for Future protest.
- The movement she started in 2018 became an international campaign.
- Critics and supporters disagree over what her reaction meant.

## Summary

Greta Thunberg appeared to laugh after being told a Fridays for Future protest was taking place in Berlin, asking whether people were “still doing that”. The moment, shown in a documentary about the criminalisation of activism, has prompted criticism and debate over her apparent distance from the climate movement she founded.

Thunberg launched Fridays for Future in 2018, aged 15, by skipping school to call for climate action; the campaign grew into an international student movement. In recent years she has also focused on Palestinian causes, including protests and support for imprisoned activists. Some online critics say the clip undermines her climate advocacy, while supporters argue she was mocking the protest’s moderate tactics rather than climate activism itself.

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