They\u2019re going to need a bigger boat!<\/p>\n
Greta Thunberg\u2019s freedom flotilla<\/a>, which set sail from Barcelona Sunday for another anti-Israel voyage to Gaza, has been rocked by scandal after one of its woke leaders was accused of \u201csexual misconduct\u201d with at least three volunteers.<\/p>\n \u201cA senior leader within the flotilla \u2014 a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization \u2014 engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals,\u201d claimed Palestinian group Heart of Falastin in a social media post earlier this week.<\/p>\n Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, seen here with Greta Thunberg on one of the trips, was the target of the accusations. Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cTo do it on the boat, while heading to a nation undergoing genocide, with volunteers who are under your authority . . . is a clear violation of ethics and power.\u201d<\/p>\n One Brazilian group named the alleged horndog as activist Thiago Avila,\u00a0in an X post unearthed by media watchdog Honest Reporting and shared with The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cOn a ship carrying humanitarian aid, a Brazilian shows up with his d\u2013k swinging and the only thing he manages to do is f\u2013k and get arrested,\u201d Anti Esquerda Esquerda Club, a group that describes itself as criticizing the left from the left,\u00a0wrote on X<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday, pointing the finger at Avila \u2014 and referring to the\u00a0Israeli Navy intercepting the flotilla<\/a>\u00a0and taking activists into custody.<\/p>\n Avila, 39, sailed to Gaza in June aboard the 12-person Madleen, where he was pictured in many chummy poses with fellow activist Thunberg \u2014 arms around each other\u2019s shoulders and looking gleefully at one another \u2014 before they were eventually detained by Israeli forces and deported.<\/p>\n Avila first sailed to Gaza in June aboard the Madleen, where he was pictured in many chummy poses with Thunberg. gazafreedomflotilla \/Instagram<\/p>\n He joined the larger 500-activist Global Sumud Flotilla convoy in September, during which infighting among senior leadership led Thunberg to step down from the steering committee and off the main boat. The activist was then seen dragging her suitcase along a Tunisian dock to transfer to a different ship.<\/p>\n That tumultuous trip also saw her vessel\u2019s radio hacked to\u00a0pump songs from the Swedish pop group ABBA<\/a>\u00a0on full blast in a clear troll at Thunberg.<\/p>\n At the time, Thunberg\u2019s decision to step down stemmed from frustration that leadership was spending too much time bickering about\u00a0\u201cinternal affairs\u201d and was not focusing enough on Gaza, according to Italian newspaper\u00a0Il Manifesto<\/a>, which had a correspondent on board.<\/p>\n The flotilla sailed off again for its latest voyage to Gaza on April 12 from Barcelona, with Avila and hundreds of others. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n Thunberg did not respond to questions from The Post about the alleged sexual misconduct, and whether it played a role in her own departure.<\/p>\n Avila, who left his wife and two-year-old daughter at home in Brazil to embark on what is now his fourth sailing trip since June \u2014 having gone twice to Gaza and once to Cuba \u2014 denied the accusations.<\/p>\n \u201cThese allegations are obviously not true,\u201d he told The Post on WhatsApp Thursday while sailing off the coast of Spain.<\/p>\n Avila, seen here before departing from Barcelona last week, said the allegations were part of a smear campaign. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cThe ethics committee talked to all three people mentioned and they confirmed that this is just a smear campaign, that we are comrades and nothing ever happened,\u201d he added, before embarking on a bizarre rant about the Epstein files.<\/p>\n One of the three women, also taking part in the current flotilla, took to Instagram to address the allegations in a video filmed on the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a lie,\u201d said Brazilian activist Lisi Proenca, before chalking the whole thing up to cultural differences.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a lie,\u201d said Brazilian activist Lisi Proenca, before chalking the whole thing up to cultural differences. Instagram\/lisiproenca<\/p>\n \u201cFor some people inside the organization, it is really weird how we Brazilians hug a lot.\u00a0We are very touchy.\u00a0We sleep close together and we share rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMe and Thiago have been comrades and friends for almost a decade\u2026Here in the flotilla it\u2019s natural for us to share rooms, to be always together.\u201d<\/p>\n The allegations have added fuel to critics\u2019 fire that the flotilla is nothing more than performative activism, with socialists in it for a good time.<\/p>\n Some 70 boats are taking part in this spring\u2019s trip to Gaza, making it the largest flotilla to date. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n