A deceptive ‘Free Palestine’ activist embodies a lying despiteful cause

(Sept. 25, 2026/ JNS)

We reside in a period in which trendy viewpoint holds it to be an undisputed reality that biological gender need to be thought about fluid and adjustable, however racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function of ideology than science. The concepts that are the structure of these made complex and in some cases illogical ideas are a formula for a social architecture that rewards one thing above all: victim status.

That’s the very best method to comprehend the strange phenomenon of people who pick to embrace the identity of a group besides the one they were born into, so regarding obtain the much-prized modern-day opportunity that opts for victimhood.

The most popular of these was Rachel Dolezala white lady of European heritage who masqueraded as an African American, taught African-American research studies on the college level and even was picked as the president of the Spokane, Kansas chapter of the NAACP before her scams was exposed in 2015.

Another, less well known, racial impersonator was Jessica Krugan extreme ideologue who was a tenured teacher of history at George Washington University. She pretended to be a black and Hispanic female from “El Barrio” in New York City’s Bronx, however was truly a middle-class, white, Jewish lady who matured in rural Kansas City and participated in a day school.

A Jew who ended up being ‘Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite’

And now there’s a brand-new addition to this unusual list of racial impersonators: Hannah Gann.

Gann is a Philadelphia high-school instructor who declares, sometimes, to be of Palestinian and Tunisian heritage and often likewise to be black. In this guise, she ended up being a leading regional supporter for the anti-Israel cause, arranging an occasion at public schools declaring that the Jewish state was devoting “scholasticide” versus Palestinians and speaking out as a member of the “Philly Palestine Coalition” and “Parents for Palestine.”

She got regional prestige for her efforts on behalf of an associate and long time buddy, Keziah Ridgeway, who was suspended for making hazards versus Jewish moms and dads who grumbled about her placing anti-Israel propaganda into the class.

As the Canary Mission site kept in mind on a page committed to her activities,

Gann has actually commemorated Hamas terrorism, glorified violence and spread hatred of Israel, America and the cops on her now-deleted Instagram page. She participated at a December 2023 “Flood Philly for Palestine” rally (a referral to the Hamas name for the Oct. 7 attacks that they called the “Al Aqsa flood”), at which she not just applauded the mass massacre of Jews and participated chants requiring Jewish genocide and terrorism versus Jews, however likewise showed versus a Jewish-owned dining establishment in the city.

Popular was she in the effort to demonize the Jewish state and its Jewish fans, that the Accuracy in Media group, as soon as parked a mobile signboard outside her school calling her “Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite.”

Like Dolezal and Krug, Gann was a con artist, not a “individual of color” or a Palestinian. She was, in reality– as she consequently confessed in a groveling online apology–“a white lady of substantial opportunity and wealth.”

And if that sufficed to outrage her previous allies, it ends up that she’s likewise Jewish with household living in Israel.

Similar to Dolezal and Krug, Gann’s deceptiveness, which may have consisted of monetary scams, are being madly knocked as a type of “black face” and for harming the “pro-Palestine” motion and hurting the black trainees she taught.

The lure of victimhood

The appeal of victimhood is rooted in woke ideas that see the world divided into 2 permanently warring and impenetrable classes of individuals. On the one side are individuals of color who are constantly victims and constantly in the ideal no matter what they do. On the other are the white oppressors who are constantly in the incorrect, no matter their conduct or the context of occasions.

The hazardous ideologues of vital race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism have actually embraced this manipulated method of taking a look at the world and indoctrinated a generation of Americans to see whatever through the lens of racial dispute. Followers in this nonreligious religious beliefs not just dismiss the huge development made towards racial equality made in the United States over the last 70 years. Its fans likewise actively oppose the vision of a color-blind society articulated by Martin Luther King Jr., who notoriously stated he had a dream “that my 4 kids will one day reside in a country where they will not be evaluated by the color of their skin however by the material of their character.”

In a society where such horrible and damaging concepts are dealt with as axiom, by the lights of this belief system, some discover themselves locked into an identity that marks them as long-term bad guys. While the bulk looks for satisfaction for its “brightness” and “advantage” by advocacy focused on reducing an incorrectly viewed oppressor class, others, like Dolezal, Krug and Gann, go even more and embrace the identity of among the oppressed, therefore changing into an unique, trendy personality with genuine advantage on the planet of leftist ideology.

What makes Gann’s masquerade especially objectionable is that while she and the “pro-Palestine” crowd posture as virtuous victims, their cause itself is a scams and one that actively engages in hatred of their own individuals.

While such left-wing ideologies and the woke catechism of variety, equity and addition (DEI) in which they are based are bad for everybody, they likewise take specific target at Israel and Jews, whom they incorrectly identify as part of the “white” oppressor class. Due to the fact that this belief system venerates victimhood and dislikes success, the Jews– the most maltreated group in world history, to the aggravation of lots of liberals yearning to be counted amongst the completely oppressed– should constantly be redefined as victimizers instead of victims of hate.

According to this inversion of truth, the Jews are rejected the right to reside in Israel, the nation in which they are native. And Zionism, their national-liberation motion, is smeared as a kind of special wicked whose topple is thought to be connected to the redemption of the entire world. Rather of assisting Palestinians, as they declare to be doing, those who cheer on this insanity are locking them into a long-term state of useless warfare and suffering.

Far from a language of real freedom, the woke rhetoric about Israel and Zionists that Gann and her previous good friends gush, comes right out of a script composed by Soviet propagandists in the 1960s and ’70s. Its function is the topple of Western civilization and American liberty and its replacement by Marxist tyranny, not liberty for the oppressed.

Gann should have the opprobrium she’s getting for her worthless play-acting. Similar to Dolezal and Krug, that included attempting to appear more dark-skinned with the help of makeup and a phony tan. It likewise consisted of, as a previous schoolmate of Gann’s at the University of Pennsylvania who understood her before she began to pretend to be a Palestinian, informed The Philadelphia Inquirer, not simply altering her look however typically speaking in a dialect or kind of slang that the political correctness now describe as “African-American Vernacular English.”

A brochure of lies

Gann stated in her apology, “The reality that I lied about who I was does not imply anybody else who defends Palestine is lying.”

Of course, that’s precisely the point. The whole rhetoric of “Free Palestine” is a brochure of lies.

The rewording of the history of ancient Israel and the modern-day state, as well as the duplicated Palestinian-Arab rejections of any peace deal that does not include the expulsion of Jews from their homeland, is vital to the motion’s cause. From the produced stats about Palestinian casualties in the post-Oct. 7 war they began, to their rejections of the atrocities, consisting of mass murder, abuse and rape dedicated that day by the Palestinians (which were shot on Go-Pro video cameras and published on the social-media accounts of a few of the victims to trigger much more discomfort to their loved ones and buddies), to their denigration of the suffering of the hundreds who were abducted on that Jewish vacation, “pro-Palestine” discourse intends not simply to reject truth, however to invert it.

Above all, the dialectic of Palestinianism targets at removing Jews of rights and incorrectly representing them as criminal beasts and modern-day Nazis, while glorifying an Islamist motion whose sole function is Jewish genocide and damage of the one Jewish state in the world. And in order to achieve this, they have, with the help of a prejudiced media, spread out blood libels about the Jews dedicating “genocide” and their democratic country being an “apartheid state.”

While couple of reach pretending to be Palestinian, the anti-Israel motion however invites those who wish to take part in the battle of the declared victims. As we’ve seen on American college schools and in the streets of the nation’s cities, those who embrace their lies and target Jews, as Gann and her pals did, have actually been indoctrinated to consider themselves as exemplary activists, not purveyors of hate. In so doing, they obtain a vicarious sort of victimhood that provides a greater status in the culture of the left, even if they still stay white and fundamentally bad.

Amongst them are Jews, such as the members of Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, which traffic in other antisemitic blood libels, such as the unbelievable allegation that Israel trains American cops and very first responders to murder African Americans.

Seen in this context, it’s simple to see that Gann’s desperate effort to leave her “brightness” and Jewish identity in order to belong to the paradoxically more fortunate victim class, didn’t simply cause lies about her origins. The identity she picked was itself based upon a web of deceptiveness, cooked up by ideologues and spread out by those, like Gann, whose concept of education is pushing propaganda down the throats of trainees– not sharing the treasure of Western idea and suitables.

Those who signed up with Gann in the chants for genocide and fear versus the Jews might not have actually transgressed the racial taboo of cultural and racial appropriation that the left despises. They might deceive themselves into thinking that she betrayed their cause with her lies.

With their cosplaying of Palestinian terrorists in their outfits of keffiyehs and masks, and their recitations of Soviet and Hamas propaganda intended at promoting antisemitism, the distinction in between their scams and hers is not as fantastic as they believe.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS. Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.