‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth Says Humanitarian & Peace Activist Greta Thunberg “Needs To Be Eaten By Cannibals”

Eli Roth, the director of the slasher flick “Thanksgiving” and the recent video game flop “Borderlands,” has been one of the more vocal Hollywood directors supporting the brutal hostilities against the Palestinian people as the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza rage on. That support has reached an extreme new level as the filmmaker may have taken to social media to call for violence against young environmental and peace activist Greta Thunberg.

A screenshot (via AShotMagazine) making the rounds online from Roth’s Instagram stories (the posts may have simply expired and we can’t independently verify, but multiple accounts have captures screengrabs), comments on Thunberg’s kidnapping in international waters by the IDF while attempting to peacefully deliver aid via boat to Gazans (Thunberg used that exact phrasing to describe the events denying it was a “PR stunt”). In response to her humanitarian actions, Roth wrote, “She needs to be eaten by cannibals.”

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In another Instagram stories post (both commenting on Instagram posts made by pro-Zionist writer Hen Mazzig attempting to belittle and smear Thunberg’s aid effort), Roth added, “If you posted Greta’s antisemitic propaganda, you are dead to me.”

This “cannibals” line feels like a specific nod to Roth’s cannibal movie “The Green Inferno” (Roth is openly obsessed with the cannibal horror sub-genre), but would still be a call for violence and essentially the hope for Thunberg’s death, which would say a lot more about where Roth’s head is at.

Roth and a group of other Jewish creatives from Hollywood “rejected” director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech after winning Best International Film for his critically acclaimed Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest.” Where the filmmaker (who is Jewish himself) called for peace, the end of dehumanization of the Palestinian people, the occupation, and condemned fellow Jews using the Holocaust (any critcism of the military actions of the government have automatically labelled “antisemitism” in an attempt to chill coverage and commentary) as an excuse to use the full force of a well-armed modern military against a civilian population.

There is an extra level of insult to injury here here as Spyglass Media, the studio behind the Eli Roth horror movie “Thanksgiving” (a sequel is in the works with the director returning) and the “Scream” franchise, fired actress Melissa Barrera over a harmless social media post simply supporting the innocent civilians being killed (a majority of them being children). Either way, when a young woman is risking her life trying to deliver aid to a humanitarian crisis, a veiled death threat is the opposite of a good look, bad karma, and feels a little more than out of pocket in response. Sometimes you should just say nothing.

Eli Roth wishes death upon Greta Thunberg after she was kidnapped by Israeli forces while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“She needs to be eaten by cannibals” pic.twitter.com/jpy96oOYVV

— A Shot. (@ashotmagazine) June 11, 2025