Malaysians on board Selangor MB-led GSF 2.0 mocked for “publicity stunt, oblivious to past lessons”

 

DETRACTORS are lamenting that the more than 40-strong Malaysians who are part of the 80 vessels and 1,000 global participants in the latest batch of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) 2.0 mission have ignored past experiences of their predecessors.

As Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari who is also Malaysia’s head of mission lauded Malaysia having become the first country to formally recognise the GSF 2.0 as a national mission, one sceptic recounted the trauma befallen participants of GSF 1.0 despite their initial gung-ho-ness.

“You think it’s easy to break the Zionist blockade of Gaza?” he pointedly ranted in a Facebook post by My Netizen on “GSF 2.0 having commenced its voyage from Barcelona to Gaza in a mission to break the Israeli siege (of Palestine)”.

Recall how swiftly you guys (GSF 1.0 participants) swiftly raised their hands and leaned over to be arrested when the enemy pointed a gun at them.

They’re would have peed in their pants for sure. Look at how they easily handed over the medicine and food supplies that they brought along to the Zionists without a fight …

Then it was the hassle on the part of the government to send representatives to discuss their release. But when the Zionists released them, they returned home both as the nation’s heroes/heroines.

At the end of the day, their participation was seemingly a commercial stint to leverage their hero/heroine status to become product ambassadors.

‘Let ’em fence for themselves’

Another commenter listed down what he termed as “13 GSF 1.0 synopsis check” ranging from “video call of fear and missing family while in (Israeli) detention” to “getting a job review; new iPhone; invited by the media for a talk show” and “a few days later, their followers on Tik Tok and IG (Instagram) grew rapidly”.

Editor’s Note: In appreciation of their bravery. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil had in October 2025 arranged for new mobile phones (believed to be iPhone) to be given to 23 Malaysian volunteers who participated in GSF 1.0.

This came about as the participants – as part of their safety protocols upon been detained – were required to throw their original phones into the sea to protect the data and communication networks.

In all fairness, there are also some who prayed for the safety of the 40-strong Malaysian GSF 2.0 participants albeit the mocking of detrctors.

Nevertheless, it is somehow shocking that the number of detractors is on the high side which brings about the possibility of them being opposition-slant netizens.

On top of that, some even urged the Madani government not to interfere in the event the volunteers “get detained by the Israeli authorities” with one even have the audacity to declare that “they’re prepared to mati syahid (die as martyrs)”.

On the DemiRakyat Channel’s FB page, the trolling is similar with some commenters describing the participants as “gila glamor” (literally glamour crazy”) yet would waste the rakyat’s money to bring them home in the event they get detained”.

Or even how prepared or certain are the participants to break the “Israeli’s real gun blockade as opposed to one by the RELA kakak”?

“Supposedly they end up being the Israel’s hostages, who has to fork out the ransom money if the latter demands millions of RM per head for their release?” jibed one safety & health officer from Melaka. 

 - Focus Malaysia