Names of Nazi collaborators found among signatures on Jewish group’s petition against Herzog’s Australia visit

A petition published by an Australian Jewish anti-Zionist organization in opposition to President Isaac Herzog’s state visit is found to be sporting several fake signatures, including the name of at least one Jewish Nazi collaborator, or Kapo, and a name transliterated from a Hebrew insult.

The petition was published as full-page ads in two Australian newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, according to the Jewish Council of Australia, which was behind the campaign.

“Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not weclome here,” the organization wrote in a post on X and Facebook, which is accompanied by a snapshot of the petition and the names of those who signed it.

However, social media users were quick to point out several inconsistencies, including that one of the names listed, “Milkek Tachat,” means “ass licker” in Hebrew.

Another name found on the list, Eliezer Gruenbaum, was a Jewish communist who became a kapo after being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. He died in 1948.

Other signatures include Carmen Mory, a Swiss spy for Nazi Germany who was executed for her crimes in 1947, and Josef Heiden, who spent three years in Dachau as a political prisoner before being released and joining the Nazi Waffen-SS in 1941.