This is literally the goal of civil disobedience. Ideally Israel would have boarded the ships, searched them, found no military aid, and let them make landfall and distribute the aid to Gazans. Israeli actions are just making it clear to the world that the plan is to starve all the Gazans to death

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted