One of the leaders aboard Greta Thunberg's freedom flotilla—which has set sail on another voyage to Gaza on Sunday—has been accused of sexual misconduct after the leader allegedly slept with three volunteers on the ship.
"A senior leader within the flotilla — a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization — engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals," the pro-Palestinian organization Heart of Falastin said in a post to social media.
“To 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.”
The Anti Esquerda Club, which has described itself as being left of the left, named the alleged perpetrator as activist Thiago Avila.
"Thiago Ávila, the Brazilian representative on that so-called 'flotilla,' is being accused of having slept with more than 3 members of the vessel. His fans' justification is that he needed to 'relieve the tension' (or better yet, the horniness) and that his marriage is 'open,'" the group said in a social media post.
"On a ship carrying humanitarian aid and flying the flags of the noblest causes of our time, a Brazilian shows up with a raging hard-on, and the only thing he manages to do is f*ck and get arrested. But forgive me, his marriage is open. And it's this ex-lefty who's gonna make the revolution," the group added.
Avila, 39, sailed to Gaza in June with other left-wing activists on the pro-Gaza "journey." When they arrived, the activists were eventually detained by Israel and then deported. Then, in September, Avila joined a larger flotilla convoy with 500 activists.
Avila left his wife as well as his two-year-old daughter at home in Brazil to embark on the various escapades. He has denied the allegations. “These allegations are obviously not true,” he said in comments to the New York Post. “The 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."
"A senior leader within the flotilla — a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization — engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals," the pro-Palestinian organization Heart of Falastin said in a post to social media.
“To 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.”
The Anti Esquerda Club, which has described itself as being left of the left, named the alleged perpetrator as activist Thiago Avila.
"Thiago Ávila, the Brazilian representative on that so-called 'flotilla,' is being accused of having slept with more than 3 members of the vessel. His fans' justification is that he needed to 'relieve the tension' (or better yet, the horniness) and that his marriage is 'open,'" the group said in a social media post.
"On a ship carrying humanitarian aid and flying the flags of the noblest causes of our time, a Brazilian shows up with a raging hard-on, and the only thing he manages to do is f*ck and get arrested. But forgive me, his marriage is open. And it's this ex-lefty who's gonna make the revolution," the group added.
Avila, 39, sailed to Gaza in June with other left-wing activists on the pro-Gaza "journey." When they arrived, the activists were eventually detained by Israel and then deported. Then, in September, Avila joined a larger flotilla convoy with 500 activists.
Avila left his wife as well as his two-year-old daughter at home in Brazil to embark on the various escapades. He has denied the allegations. “These allegations are obviously not true,” he said in comments to the New York Post. “The 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."
