13 Facts About Greta Berlin

Greta K Berlin was born on April 6,1941 and is an American Anti-Zionist activist.

Greta Berlin has been a spokesperson for the Free Gaza Movement, which she co-founded in 2006.

Greta Berlin graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, one of the first two girls to do so.

Greta Berlin founded GKB Associates in 1977, a training and media coaching firm for scientists and engineers wanting to make presentations to conferences around the world, and worked for some of the top engineering firms in the US, the Middle and Far East and Europe, before retiring in 2011.

Greta Berlin believed that "Israel was driving the Palestinians off their land for the second time in 19 years" and vowed to increase American awareness of the issue.

Greta Berlin told an interviewer that the Internal Revenue Service began auditing her husband's company and that the FBI began questioning them.

In 2003, after the death of Rachel Corrie who had been working with the International Solidarity Movement, Greta Berlin joined ISM and went to the Palestinian Territories, working in Bil'in, Jenin, Ramallah, including in the ISM media office.

Greta Berlin was one of the primary spokespersons for Freedom Flotilla 1, a coalition of initiatives put together by Free Gaza to sail a flotilla of boats into Gaza after the Dignity and the Spirit of Humanity had been stopped by Israeli naval vessels.

Greta Berlin is the co-author and co-editor of the 2012 book, Freedom Sailors, The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza movement and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves.

In 2012, Greta Berlin was accused of antisemitism following a tweet, originating from her Facebook account, and published under the Twitter account of the Free Gaza Movement.

Greta Berlin apologized once the post became known to a wider audience.

Greta Berlin said she merely intended to post the video and comment in a private Facebook group where she had been participating in a discussion of similar propaganda.

Larry Derfner published a statement by sixteen people stating that "ours is a small and secret Facebook group, 37 members strong" and that one of the topics the group had been discussing was "the role of the Zionist movement during the Holocaust" when Greta Berlin posted her remarks.