Marlene Engelhorn (YouTube screenshot)
Marlene Engelhorn has accused Israel of “genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation,” and is actively involved in anti-Israel demonstrations.
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who inherited $27 million from the company that produced Zyklon B, the poison used in Nazi gas chambers, is joining a flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Engelhorn is a descendant of the German industrialists who founded BASF, which merged with IG Farben in the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime, IG Farben manufactured the cyanide-based gas used in the Holocaust.
Though IG Farben was dissolved after World War II, BASF was reestablished in 1952 and remained under Engelhorn family control until the mid-1990s, when it was sold for more than $4 billion.
She inherited approximately $27 million from her grandmother in 2021.
Engelhorn has accused Israel of “genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation,” and is actively involved in anti-Israel demonstrations.
“We continue to fight to break this illegal siege and bring humanitarian aid to Gaza,” she said in a video posted by the Global Movement to Gaza Austria.
The post featured her participation in an upcoming flotilla mission, saying she was “standing on the right side of history.”
This new flotilla, called Handala, follows a previous attempt to breach Israel’s naval blockade, which was intercepted by the Israeli navy in July.
The current vessel departed from Syracuse, Italy, carrying 18 volunteers, including doctors, lawyers and journalists.
The coalition behind the effort claims their goal is to deliver aid and highlight the suffering in Gaza, which they blame on what they call an “illegal siege.”
Among the activists is Jewish American Bob Suberi, who called the mission a success for drawing international attention. “We attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to hungry people trapped in violation of humanitarian law,” he said.
The Israeli navy intercepted the Handala before reaching Gaza.
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