When I watched the clip where Greta Thunberg calls for help from Sweden because she had been “kidnapped” by Israel, I felt overwhelmed with rage.

I’m sick that she was cosplaying as a hostage. As we’ve all seen in the news images, she was fed and watered and gently escorted off her boat so that she wouldn’t make a dangerous spectacle that would end in more death. She should be thanking the IDF for saving her life, rather than continuing to pretend that she’s doing anything other than virtue signaling for attention.

The literal chutzpah, to sail into a war zone just to make a point, knowing that it can never end the way you want it to, only to be treated with civility and rejecting it with disdain. The audacity to claim that you have been kidnapped by the IDF, while we have Israeli hostages still sitting in the darkness, starving, and wasting away and you are fighting for the side that refuses to let them go…

All this belies a level of delusion, of narcissism, of white savior performance art that is so offensive, disgusting, and sick that it’s hard to believe this is what the world has come to. I read the comments on her video, and there are millions of people in the world who are championing her, congratulating her, supporting this madness, and I can’t make it make sense.

We are fighting for our lives here.