Former Classmate Speaks Out About the Woman Dubbed the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal”
A black former UPenn classmate of “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal,” Hannah Gann, said the fraudster cares more about her “personal gain” than helping the cause, after the self-proclaimed African and Palestinian activist was outed as a white, Jewish woman.
The former ᴀssociate, who said she knew the 35-year-old Gann before she started living a lie, accused her of trying to “take advantage of vulnerable communities” when she spoke to The Post on Wednesday.
“The moment you start lying and perpetrating as if you’re somebody else, is when your whole point, your whole message, starts to fall flat,” said the former student, who asked not to be identified.
“If you truly care about the cause more so than about personal gain, then that’s just what it is,” she said of high school teacher Gann, whose activism was so rabid she was once branded “Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite” by the group Accuracy in Media (AIM).
The former classmate remembers Gann through their shared involvement in urban studies and public-service programs at UPenn.
“She definitely wasn’t black,” she said. “There were a lot of Jewish students at Penn during my time and even in my program that looked like her — light skin, curly dark hair.”
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A black former UPenn classmate of “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal,” Hannah Gann, said the fraudster cares more about her “personal gain” than helping the cause, after the self-proclaimed African…