I commonly joke that one of the signs that someone is an antisemite is when they claim “some of my best friends are Jewish.” The phrase has become so common among actual Jew haters as a defense against accusations of antisemitism, it is now almost a signifier of it.
The phrase almost has some meaning now that so many “as-Jew” types use their Jew-ish-ness as a way to bludgeon Israel, increasing the pool of “best friends” for Jew-haters to point to as supposed friends (although it is clear the Jew-haters see them as useful tools only). This includes non-Jews claiming they converted to Judaism, which has all the feels of dentist Dennis Whatley from Seinfeld converting to Judaism just for the jokes.
Some of those claiming to be Jews are later exposed as faking it (i.e. “as-a-Jews exposed as “not-a-Jews”). Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, I am looking at you.
And now we have a new inclusion in that latter category: Fabian “the boy who cried” Wolff.
A German intellectual named Fabian Wolff, who has often criticized the Jewish community in Germany and Israel through media outlets associated with the left, was found to have faked his Jewish identity.
After his former partner revealed that he is not Jewish, Wolff published a lengthy article in the magazine Die Zeit this week, in which he exposed the truth about his religious identity and quickly placed the blame on his mother.
The perplexed German left rushed to blame Jewish institutions for revealing the truth in their statements. However, those very organizations chose to remain silent on the matter to avoid embarrassing him.
He is known as one of the most vocal critics of the left’s opposition to the definition of antisemitism, which can also manifest through criticism or anti-Israel policies, and he supports absolving Muslim antisemitism of blame and that’s in addition to being an enthusiastic supporter of boycott movements against Israel, such as BDS.
Therefore, in times when being Jewish in Europe is becoming less safe, but being a European Jew who criticizes Israel and the Jewish people is considered a stable stock, he chose to falsely present himself as Jewish.
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Other newspapers noted that Wolff the charlatan helped the left diminish the discussion around the prevalence of antisemitism in Germany, acting like a “Trojan horse.” Many Germans did this before him, especially in the aftermath of World War II, but most did it to escape their parents’ past and move from the camp of the perpetrators to that of the victims.
Wolff, who is also a teacher by trade, strongly attacked other Jews, claiming that they were blindly pro-Israel, extreme right-wingers or racists. He used his fabricated Jewish identity to bash fellow Jews. In his confession, he also proved that he is not a Christian either and he never sought forgiveness from anyone he harmed.
According to this piece in the wake of the revelations:
In his recently published Zeit Online confession text one looks in vain for an apology to the Jewish community. At no point was there a single word of regret that he of all people wanted to explain to us that near-pogroms like those in the Jewish community in Gelsenkirchen had to be viewed in the context of the Middle East conflict.
At no point does he regret that “as a Jew” he wanted to explain to us that we should view the anti-Semitic BDS movement as an understandable protest against the Jewish state’s “ethnic cleansing.”
After years of lying, cheating, and fabricating someone, an apology would be appropriate.
Yet more proof that the Israel-haters are among the sh*ttiest people on the planet.
Hat tip: Michal
