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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.
