Hoax Confirmed: A Star of David Scandal (2023)
According to Philip Oltermann writing in ‘The Guardian’ yet another so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ against a jew has been exposed to have been complete hoax.
He writes how:
‘The Central Council of Jews in Germany has strongly condemned a singer after he admitted making up allegations of being discriminated against by hotel staff in Leipzig over his Star of David pendant, saying the musician had caused “great damage to the victims of genuine antisemitism”.
German-Israeli citizen Gil Ofarim, 41, had claimed in a video posted on Instagram in October 2021 that employees of the Westin hotel in the eastern German city had asked him to “put away” a Star of David pendant before he was allowed to check in.
The incident gained much attention in Germany at the time, sparking protests outside the hotel and words of solidarity from the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
During a defamation trial against him at Leipzig’s district court, however, Ofarim on Tuesday confessed to making up the story and issued an apology to the hotel’s manager.
The proceedings for defamation and false accusation were subsequently dropped, and Ofarim was ordered to make a donation of €10,000 (£8,600) to the Jewish community of Leipzig and the House of the Wannsee Conference, a Berlin memorial museum at the villa where Nazis planned the annihilation of Europe’s Jewish population.
During the trial, several witnesses questioned Ofarim’s account of events, saying the musician had been visibly angered by having to wait in a line for his check-in, which was delayed because of software problems. On CCTV footage from inside the hotel, the Star of David pendant he wore around his neck was not visible during the incident.
“Gil Ofarim’s fabrication has massively damaged the fight against antisemitism, especially when victims are so often not believed and their experiences of hatred are played down or dismissed”, said Nicholas Potter, a researcher at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation in Berlin. “The revelation comes at a particularly detrimental time, with cases of antisemitism skyrocketing – not just in Germany, but worldwide.”’ (1)
Essentially what happened here then was that Gil Ofarim was engaging in Hasbara on Instagram in the aftermath of the 7th October attacks on Israel by Hamas by claiming to have been the victim of ‘anti-Semitism’ at a hotel in Leipzig and it turns out of course it was Ofraim being an entitled prat with the hotel staff during the check-in process rather than that the hotel staff were engaging in ‘anti-Semitic discrimination’.
Nicholas Potter’s point that this ‘damages’ the ‘fight against anti-Semitism’ is quite true in the sense that there are literally dozens of fake ‘anti-Semitic hate crimes’ every year claimed by jews which then turn out to be nothing of the kind as I have been documenting. This is the revelation that Potter fears because jews routinely scream about ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘hate crimes’ when it is nothing of the kind which in turn paradoxically makes people ‘anti-Semitic’ because they rather dislike being accused of fake ‘anti-Semitic hate crimes’ and their lives ruined or get sued for non-existent wrongs.
Jews often rhetorically ask what ‘drives anti-Semitism’ and my answer has long been simple: jewish behaviour.
This is just another example of that fact.
References
(1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/28/german-jewish-group-condemns-singer-over-false-antisemitism-claim