By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2026-09-23 21:07:05 | Updated at 2026-09-23 21:42:32
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The activist outed for being white and Jewish after masquerading as an black and Palestinian anti-Israel zealot was once dubbed “Philadelphia’s leading antisemite” by a watchdog group — after she shouted vitriol outside a Jewish bakery in what groups called a “pro-Hamas rally.”
“Hannah Gann: 10th grade teacher and Philadelphia’s leading antisemite” read a billboard plastered across a box truck that Accuracy in Media drove around Gann’s West Philadelphia neighborhood in 2024.
“We’re driving around town, making sure her neighbors know,” the group wrote in an X post at the time, including a photo of the truck parked outside the high school were Gann teaches.
The truck was rolled out after Gann, weeks earlier, stood outside a Jewish bakery and helped lead an anti-Israel protest which the antisemitism watchdog group Canary Mission described as a “pro-Hamas” rally.
“I know every martyr’s life is precious,” Gann said at the rally, held just two months after Hamas terrorists stormed Israel in their bloody Oct. 7 attack, killing more than 1,200 people.
“When a Palestinian child picks of a rock or a slingshot in the face of Israeli tanks or machine guns, we owe them that same energy,” Gann shouted into a megaphone as crowds cheered back.
“We owe them to take it to these streets and f–k the police until Palestine is free.”
“We owe it to resist and disrupt with everything we have,” she added.
Things got awkward this week, however, when 34-year-old Gann was exposed for being everything she professed to despite — white, Jewish, and the daughter of wealthy parents with family in Israel.
That’s despite a years-long charade masquerading as part black, part-Tunisian and Palestinian, a false-identity she assumed to ingrain herself in Philadelphia’s anti-Israel movement.
She went so far as to wear make-up to maker her complexion look darker, and affected accents to play the part.
But she was exposed by the Philadelphia Inquirer Tuesday, and she went to social media with a groveling apology for years of lies.
“I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” she said in the long-winded video.
