The worldwide campaign to harm the Jewish state has attracted all sorts of squalid actors. Now one has appeared who, because of her family background, adds a certain… piquancy. One might even say it is entirely fitting that she is now engaged in an effort that, by striving to show Israel in a bad light, is contributing to undermining the Jewish state and endangering its citizens. More on this Israel-hater can be found here: “Flotilla activist inherited $27m. from Nazi-profiteering family,” Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2025:
A heiress from the German industrial dynasty that profited from the Holocaust will participate in the next pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, activist groups announced last week.
Marlene Engelhorn explained in an Instagram post, “I decided to join the flotilla because I wanted to support the effort to end this genocide.”
Engelhorn is a descendant of the family that founded the BASF chemical industrial company, which in the 1920s merged with IG Farben, one of the largest industrial powers during the Nazi regime. During this period, IG Farben produced the cyanide-based poison, which was used to murder millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
In an Instagram post, Engelhorn said her family did not invent and sell Zyklon B; however, she added that her family did profit from the Nazi regime.
Her family did not invent Zyklon-B, but it was one of the owners of I.G. Farben that manufactured Zyklon-B, and thus profited from its use in the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec.
Engelhorn has been outspoken against Israel and declared that she opposes “genocide, apartheid, and illegal occupation,” and supports a “free Palestine,” in posts on her social media….
Marlene personally inherited approximately $27.1 million upon the death of her grandmother in 2021.
Engelhorn attempted to persuade the Austrian government to tax her inheritance at a 90% tax rate, according to reports at the time. However, Austria refused, as the country has no inheritance tax.
In turn, she founded an activist group, “Tax me now,” to lobby for higher taxes on the wealthy. Other heiresses, including Abigail Disney and Valerie Rockefeller also participate in the activist group, according to Forbes….
How nice. Abigail Disney is an heir to the fortune left by her great-uncle, the brother of Walt Disney, the world-famous cartoonist and entrepreneur who was also an antisemite. Valerie Rockefeller is of the same family that, through the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has been a major contributor to BDS organizations.
Jewish American Bob Suberi, one of the activists who was on the Handala, said that he believed the flotilla’s mission was a success.
“We achieved our goal. We tried to break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza. It was well publicized and thus directed international attention to the continuing siege and the genocide by starvation,” he said. “We attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to hungry people who are trapped in violation of international law and every humanitarian law.”
The Handala “Freedom Flotilla to Gaza” ended its journey in international waters Saturday night. [August 2]…
The “Freedom Flotilla” ship, the Handala, which had among its activists the Zyklon-B heiress, Fraulein Madelene Engelkorn, never made it to Gaza. It was intercepted on the way by the Israeli Navy. In no sense did the people on the Handala “achieve their goal.” It was, in fact, a miserable failure.
But at least Marlene Engelkorn tried to do her best to harm the Jewish state. The ghosts of her I.G. Farben-owning ancestors must have been smiling down upon her. She’s stayed true to her heritage.
Kevin Kraemer says
In the last days hard times will (they are here) come.
The people of the earth won’t look back in history to see what once was will be once again.
The hour has come that when they kill or murder a Jew, they are doing GOD a service.
They claim themselves to be wise, yet are actually fools. They trade truth for lies. They are depraved. They are filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, grewd and evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, foolish, faithless, heartless and ruthless.
So it was and now it is again!
Jan Roeven says
Zyklon B was NOT used in Belzec and Treblinka. In Belzec and Treblinka (als in Sobibor) carbon monoxide was used to murder Jewish men, women and children.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Patrick White says
She looks like a he. So congenitally inverted is this creature, I would take anything it has to say with a large pinch of Al-Zutt salt.
gravenimage says
Marlene Engelkorn, Or All In The Family
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Quite the background of murdrous hatred of Jews…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, why does the Israeli navy even try & intercept these boats? Let them get to Gaza, join Hamas, and then when Israel launches military attacks on them, they too can be sent to allah along w/ Hamas combatants
RegT says
I like the way you think. That would be a fitting end to such nasty people, such ignorant (or self-deceptive) fools.
Sure, they may be merely ignorant of the facts, but slandering/libeling Israel with their lies is disgusting. If they used their money to determine the facts, instead of listening to Hamas/al-jazeera/CNN/or their country’s far-Left news agencies, perhaps they might do some good in the world. Their pathetic “flotillas” are a bad joke, and only encourage violence from such terrorist groups as Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.
It amazes me how often the idle, ignorant children of the wealthy use their inherited – not earned – money for such nonsense.
mach37 says
Casting Israel as making “siege on Gaza” is outright lying. Consider that Gaza, through Hamas, laid siege on Israel to begin with on Oct. 7 and has continued siege on Israel to this day. Calling Israel’s response to attack anything other than Self Defense is Lying.
mach37 says
(Continued): Correcting myself – the Hamas siege on Israel actually began long before Oct. 7; they have been launching rockets and other attacks continuously almost since the first day Israel granted Gaza self-government of the territory.
OLD GUY says
Will this flotilla float and for how long?
Ben says
Where her ancestors failed to exterminate all the Jewish race, now she and the likes of her, are supporting the Islamic terrorist organizations so that they may continue the work of the Nazi dream.
40 rounds says
Irony and lack of self awareness is striking
Andrew Blackadder says
A young American recently told me that the Jews run the entire world so i replied that if this was indeed the truth then I would think they would have a bigger country…
He then asked me if I was a Trump supporter…
Mike says
Of course he did, because he was a blithering drooling imbecile like all leftists. I was told the same thing by a homeless chronic alcoholic recently, and he spouted exactly the same retrograde 19th-century horse manure. They all have no original thoughts or power of critical thinking. They make trained talking parrots look like Albert Einstein.
Nothing personal of course, but they’re stupid scum, many are obvious pedophiles and other sorts of degenerate, and the world would be a better place if they never existed.