Anna Baltzer Spreading Her Lies In Europe

Oxford University and Churches in Europe Champion a Purveyor of Fraud

By Lee Kaplan

Anna Baltzer, of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, who was exposed here at Gatestone Institute  (that article can be seen on this blog as the one preceding this one) as lying about her background –  by claiming she was a Jew who discovered that Zionism and Israel should be eliminated -- is apparently still appearing in a debate at Oxford University in the UK today, January 31^st, as originally scheduled, after having spoken yesterday at University of Sussex where she promoted the boycotting of, and divesting from, Israel.

One of the scheduled opponents to debate her on the side defending Israel, Mr. Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle in London and a former Chairman of European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, has already withdrawn from the event, citing his refusal to appear with  Ms. Baltzer because of her lying about Israel, lying about Jews and even lying about her own background; as well as Oxford University giving her an unmerited credibility by keeping her on the speaking panel and refusing to remove her from the event.

Further, on February 4^th Ms. Baltzer will be visiting Belgium, to address Christian groups and radical groups opposed to Israel’s existence ,  that are openly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, in order to advance Christian and general public antipathy against Israel on the Continent.  Baltzer already has a track record speaking to Presbyterian and other Christian groups in the United States who are receptive to presentations by a Jew opposed to a Jewish national homeland. Her visit to Europe is presumably intended to expand such a base.

In the past, Baltzer relayed a horrible story to audiences of a Palestinian child felled

by poison gas dispersed by the Israeli army from an IDF base. Baltzer’s tales often include such alleged atrocities by Israeli soldiers against Arab children,  but using only first names of “victims” that are not verifiable , except through herself and her fellow International Solidarity Movement activists. No addresses, no dates, no newspaper articles are usually cited; even more, no lawsuits against the IDF that such “victims” can file. For example, speaking to a Presbyterian Church in Wyoming, Baltzer told the congregation of a Palestinian mother who was forced to watch and choose from several of her children to be gunned down by Israeli soldiers – a story she was later compelled to recant. When asked why she spread the false story she replied, “I don’t think it’s hateful to hold a nation responsible for targeting civilians.” She never, though,  condemns missiles fired into Israeli communities from Gaza.

Ms. Baltzer has already been proven to have fabricated a tale of a Palestinian woman losing two babies due to an Israeli security checkpoint put in place to to keep out terrorists. She frequently lectures in the U.S., particularly to Christians and at Presbyterian churches, to incite ill will against Israel. That Anna Baltzer lectures in the churches in order to negate Christian support for a Jewish homeland, and apparently consents to be featured as Heine’s Christian Pieta --  all the while proclaiming herself a Jew who expresses a need for Zionism and the Jewish state of Israel to be brought down --  are just more examples of how the Palestinian movement continues to promote anti-Semitism in Europe and America among Christians, not just Arabs and Muslims.

What is sad is that our universities, both in the U.S. and the UK, are playing host to this woman, thereby giving her the appearance of academic, and intellectual legitimacy when her goal is to persuade her audiences by lying. She does not promote “peace” or to better the human condition. She pits one side that is from the totalitarian world against the other that is from the democratic West. Our universities and churches are supporting frauds like Anna Baltzer. They should not be. Next, the lies may be about all of us, or simply our right to speak the truth in public without being accused of denying rights to the very same people who plot to take them away from us.

Any Christian organizations and universities in Europe that are still on Baltzer’s tour schedule should cancel invitations for her to speak. That is, unless they, too, are happy to compare an untrustworthy purveyor of malevolent lies Israel with someone advocating for "peace" or "human rights" when her real aim is to aid terror groups to wipe out the only Jewish state in the Middle East.

(Update: Apparently Anna Baltzer's real name is Anna Piller. It seems she even lies about her real name to people. More on this issue later).