A white Philadelphia teacher and activist has admitted to lying about her identity for years, falsely claiming Palestinian and Black heritage while working with Palestinian and racial justice organizations.
\n\nHannah Gann posted a statement to her Instagram page last week, admitting she has no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage and describing herself as a “white woman of significant privilege and wealth.”
\n\nIn a follow-up video, Gann said she was beginning to try to take accountability and asked that no one judge the groups she worked with based on her lies. She said she deceived “everyone” in her life.
\n\n“There is not a single person on this planet, no friend, no fellow organizer, no one in my family, no professional connection, no secret op or handler who knew what I was doing,” she said. “I hid my family’s background from everyone in Philly, and also hid from the people in my own family what I was doing.”
\n\nCommenters on Gann’s original post dubbed her the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” and “Temu Rachel Dolezal,” a reference to the former NAACP chapter president who pretended to be Black. Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was outed by her parents as…
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