Boban Dukic

Boban Dukic is a Berlin-based journalist at the Berliner Zeitung who writes about politics, foreign reporting and travel.

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We have documented 1 statement by Boban Dukic, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.

Statements by Boban Dukic

Boban Dukic

Role at the time: Journalist at the Berliner Zeitung, in a commentary

November 12, 2026Condemned

Statement summary

Dukic writes that a student in Berlin holds up a homemade sign because Thunberg showed him eight years ago that he could, and that Thunberg now treats him as a punchline.

“Somewhere in Berlin, then, a schoolboy holds up his homemade cardboard sign because a Swedish woman showed him eight years ago that you are allowed to do that. And that very Swedish woman now thinks he is a punchline. (Translated from German. Original: Irgendwo in Berlin hält also ein Schüler sein selbst gemaltes Pappschild hoch, weil ihm eine Schwedin vor acht Jahren gezeigt hat, dass man das darf. Und genau diese Schwedin hält ihn heute für eine Pointe.)”

Open sourceBerliner Zeitung: Boban Dukic commentary on Greta Thunberg laughing at a climate demonstrationCommentary, opening paragraphs

Why we used this label

Dukic contrasts the students Thunberg inspired with her laughter at their protest and says she now treats them as a punchline, which criticizes her reaction, so we labeled it condemns.

Read statement Full case: Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

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Case

Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

Relationship to this case: Speaker

A documentary clip shows Greta Thunberg laughing when told of a Fridays for Future protest in Berlin. She later said the German climate movement had distanced itself from her over Palestine; commentators split over whether she mocked her own movement.

Climate Change PalestineUpdated November 14, 2026

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Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

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