The Global Sumud Flotilla Exposed Western Hypocrisy

Judith Scheytt joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. In her first interview since her release, she told Jacobin about how the mission succeeded in shaming Western governments for their complicity in genocide.

At eighteen years of age, Judith Scheytt was the youngest activist aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. After it was raided by Israeli forces on the night of October 1–2, she was taken to a high-security prison and held for several days before being deported along with other Sumud Flotilla activists.

Now back in Germany, in her first interview since her release she told Jacobin’s Hanno Hauenstein about intimidation in Israeli captivity, German double standards, and why she says that, despite everything, “th