Scandals highlight ‘insatiable demand among left-leaning publications in Germany for so-called “Jews” who will advocate for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel) and delegitimize the Jewish state’ “Fake Jew” scandals rocked Germany in late July after disclosures in the media reported two German men fabricated their Jewish identities while publicly slamming the Jewish state and spreading virulent anti-Semitism.
i24News Fabian Wolff, who paraded his Jewish background as an active supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel, acknowledged in a lengthy article for Die Zeit newspaper that he is not Jewish.
Over the years, Wolff launched scathing attacks against pro-Israel Jews, the State of Israel, and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of modern anti-Semitism, while writing for major leading German newspapers, ranging from Die Zeit to Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The 33-year-old Wolff, who works as a teacher, wrote in his Die Zeit essay titled “My Life as a Son” that his late mother apparently misled him about his maternal great-grandmother being an Orthodox Jew. “I will not speak from the position of a Jew in Germany, because I cannot and I am not,” Wolff wrote.
Wolff’s critics contend he knowingly deceived the public and is a journalistic huckster. Writing for the left-wing German daily paper Taz, journalist Erica Zingher said, “Wolff himself is responsible for his false claims; others contributed to his rise. That too is part of the story.”
Zingher argued that there is a kind of insatiable demand among left-leaning publications in Germany for Jews who will advocate for BDS and delegitimize the Jewish state. This helps to explain why Wolff’s articles were “attractive” for liberal and leftist readers and news editors.
Zingher, who is Jewish, neatly captured the effect of Wolff’s agitation against Israel in 2021. That year, Israel fought an 11-day mini-war with the terrorist movement Hamas, known as Operation “Guardian of the Walls,” during which Hamas launched 3,500 rockets at Israel. She explained that Wolff’s promotion of BDS and attacks on Israel unfolded “at a time when anti-Semitism in left-wing or anti-Israel demonstrations was reaching a new peak.”
In a bizarre twist to the Wolff story, Philipp Peyman Engel, the deputy editor of the government-financed German Jewish weekly newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine, wrote that his publication became aware in September 2021 that “some journalists in Berlin received detailed research into the extent to which Wolff’s Jewish biography was made up from start to finish.” He continued, “In journalistic circles, the question was not when Fabian Wolff’s costume Judaism would be exposed, but only who would make it public first.”
The state-funded German Jewish outlet obtained the dossier about Wolff’s false Jewish identity, ostensibly in 2021. Peyman Engel said his newspaper decided not to disclose Wolff’s fake identity at the time, citing an incident in 2019 when a German historian and blogger named Marie Sophie Hingst committed suicide after it was disclosed that she lied about being the descendant of Holocaust survivors. Questions abound over whether Philipp Peyman Engel and the paper failed to meet their journalistic obligation to report on stories of great public interest.
And yet, there has been no shortage of examples over the decades about Germans who manufactured a Jewish identity and did not kill themselves.
In 2010, the prominent German-Jewish journalist, Henryk M. Broder, exposed that a German woman aboard the vessel MV Irene, which sought to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, invented her conversion to Judaism. “Edith Lutz is definitely a Jew, like a smoked pork chop is kosher,” Broder wrote at the time.
In 2012, the author of this article revealed that Irena Wachendorff, a German poet and anti-Israel activist, acknowledged that she fabricated her supposed service in the IDF during the First Lebanon war. She called strong pro- Israel activists “the neo-Nazi troop among the Jews,” and expressed support for the terrorist movement Hamas that rules over the Gaza Strip.
Most recently, Broder and his colleague, Moritz Gerlach, unveiled another German man masquerading as a Jew. On July 19, they revealed that a man named Frank Borner ostensibly manufactured a Jewish identity and holds “Meet a Jew” presentations on the Baltic sea island of Fehmarn, part of Germany’s northern-most state, Schleswig-Holstein.
In his new essay titled “Fight Antisemites, not Antisemitism,” the president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Yigal Carmon, argues that programs like “Meet a Jew” are “motivated by good intentions,” but “the chosen methods are misguided and cause the opposite of the desired effect. Moreover, they evade the crucial task of confronting anti-Semites themselves, and focus on the less-demanding task of doing PR for the Jews.”
The irony of the “Meet a Jew” is that Broder first proposed the program as satirical joke. In 2021, the German government-funded Central Council of Jews implemented “Meet a Jew.” Broder responded, with his usual biting wit, that it would be better to have a “Meet an anti-Semite” program.
BUT GERMANY isn’t the only place where fake Jews promote anti-Semitism:
Hartmut says
What the political left and illegal Middle Eastern migrants have in common is indeed their virulent anti-Semitism.
Frist ones by self-indoctrination and latter by being breast-fed with it from day one on.
BLR says
doubt there are any conservative jews who are not pro Israel the suspicion starts when they say they are jewish vote democrat and helped elect Biden
BareNakedIslam says
BLR, not suspicious at all. Even after all Trump did for Israel, about 70 percent of Jews (all leftie scumbags) still voted for Biden.
The Tasmanian Devil says
The Nazi regime is alive and well in the place where it all began.
Bleepingbobby says
In Romania we have fake jews khazars mongholoids, masons, bolsheviks, gypsy jews promoting bolshevism & masonry. Whatever jewry collective conscience they had in Central East Europe & France & Germany is fake. The jews of these werent jews , remember Judeo Khazaria affecting pre Soviet Union, Italy Sicily jews reeducated in islamic madrassas, Germany Karl Marx who was more Ashkenazi, France who’s strong masonic influence on jewry was same….Hungary Soros khazar mongoloid( jew?! Not) who hate his kindred yet he behaves with the same hatred…Israel we see justice reform where ashkenazi jews put above sephard jews ( seen as gypsy jew)and so on
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Thank you Bonni, youre the best. This is overdue and very important. The two jewish people here Knobloch and schuster are spreading in germany the lie that all problems are being made by the afd. The afd has a wing that is jewish and they also have many other nations in their party but they are the nazis. These two named above are traitors for the Jewish people and like wolf or seibert are. You need to take a look at the left and green party here. The left and the greens go to fakeistinian to learn combat rules and the german gov. supports them with millions and it also votes against Israel. there is alot to write about and it needs to be written.Thank you for starting.
BareNakedIslam says
Daniel, I find these fake Jews especially infuriating. There’s also a group of alleged ultra-orthodox Jews who show up at every anti-Israel demonstration and pledge their support to the Palestinians. I call them “rents Jews” because they are probably being paid. They were even brought to Iran by the Iranian government as honored guests.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Call then traitors and liars, then they are nothing else. Stay on this then here in germany you can write until death and not have all of it. I live here and i hate biggotry and liars and its hard for me to bear these lies, but to see how my folk is being tormented with this is hard. The normal german dont think like where are you from or wich nationality are you, no that does the left side in order to keep us quiet and paying. Stay on this and bite yourself tight into it and maybe you can open a few eyes and maybe just maybe someone of importance reads this and maybe just maybe he she will act, its a wish nothing more.