Climate Change, Intifada, the Disturbances in France—and Greta Thunberg

Around 2018, a Swedish fifteen-year-old named Greta Thunberg, reportedly diagnosed with various psychiatric and developmental disorders, appeared on the international scene as a sort of child saint of environmental activism. She issued emotive statements and insisted that, “We cannot talk about anything else” but climate change—while journalists wrote of her “unassailable moral authority.” Then, at some point, she began talking about something very different: the evils of Israel. Jonah Goldberg examines her latest unacknowledged political shift, and what it reveals about much of the global left: