After Philly Teacher’s Race/Ethnic Hoax, Leftist Pro-Palestinian Teacher Group Disbands

The revelation that white Philadelphia teacher Hannah Gann isn’t actually black and Palestinian has led to the dissolution of one teacher organization and the “hiatus” of another.

A couple of weeks ago the Workshop School’s Gann confessed to, and apologized for, her bogus heritage, but added she “still believes in every cause [she] ever supported, in the ongoing fight for justice and in the righteousness of liberation for all oppressed peoples.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week that “after much reflection” the group Philly Educators for Palestine decided to split up as a result of Gann’s hoax. The group had been created in 2024 following a “teach-in” about the situation in Gaza, with Gann as a “charter” member.

In addition, the Racial Justice Organizing Committee announced on Instagram it was going on a “two-month hiatus” in order to “rest, process, and decompress.”

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Members of both Philly Educators for Palestine and the RJOC said Gann “deserved consequences from her employer for her actions.” A former “organizer” colleague of Gann who wished to remain anonymous told the Inquirer she was “furious” at the damage wrought by Gann’s deception, and agrees with those who want her terminated.

“She has moments when she tries to ask extra Black, like cosplaying Black,” the organizer said, adding that Gann “often wore African print clothing and large earrings, and used African American Vernacular English.”

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