Congresswoman Claiming Jewish Heritage Exposed as Nazi Granddaughter

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An American politician who claimed to be Jewish turns out to be the granddaughter of a Nazi officer.

On February 10th, The Washington Post shed light upon Florida Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna's true origins and called her out for lying about her Jewish heritage in an interview in November 2022 with the Jewish Insider.

According to several family members, Luna is not Jewish. Instead, she is the paternal grandchild of Heinrich Mayerhofer, who served Nazi Germany's armed forces back in the 1940s when he was a teenager. Mayerhofer died in 2003.

Luna told the Jewish Insider that she was raised as a Messianic Jew by her father and clarified that she is a Christian. She also claimed to be a small part of Ashkenazi, an ancestral Jewish group whose ancestors lived in Central and Eastern Europe and France.

The Insider interviewed Luna about the fact that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is infamous for her "Jewish space laser" conspiracy, supported Luna's candidacy for Congress. Luna replied, "If she were antisemitic, why did she endorse me?"

"I in no way, shape, or form would ever put myself in a position where I'm hanging out with someone like that, and so I just don't see that Marjorie Taylor Greene is that person. If I see it happening on the right, I'm the first person to condemn it and say, like, 'Hey, that's not cool. I don't align with that,'" said Luna to the Jewish Insider.

This is not the first time Luna incited the Nazis on social media. In 2021, Luna posted a video on Twitter about the registry of Americans who haven't been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and called them similar to the Nazi's list of Jews. "'Nazi Germany Registry' of Unvaccinated Americans: Think About It Like The Jewish Star,'" she tweeted.

One of the inconsistencies about Luna's origins and heritage is that she is considered to be the first Mexican American woman elected to Congress from Florida. However, in the past, she said she was Middle Eastern, Jewish, or Eastern European.

Not long ago, US Rep. George Santos was also caught lying about being a Jew.

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