Michael Friedman’s Hypocrisy: A Moral Crusader Who Exploited Trafficking Victims
Watch the video of Michael Friedman’s sanctimonious tirade against Alternative for Germany (AfD) during a Holocaust memorial speech. Then ask yourself: Why should a man who urinated on trafficked women—literally—lecture anyone about morality?
🔹 The Stain Beneath the Sanctimony
Friedman, lauded as a voice of Jewish conscience in Germany, has built his career on moral posturing. But his past isn’t just problematic—it’s grotesque. Born to Schindlerjuden survivors, he leveraged his heritage to ascend as Vice President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, President of the European Jewish Congress, and a TV star. Yet behind the polished façade lurked a predator.
🔹 The Friedman Affair: Cocaine, Prostitutes, and Exploitation
In 2003, police raided Friedman’s home and offices, exposing his alias, “Paolo Pinkel,” and his sordid escapades. He lured Ukrainian trafficking victims—women coerced into prostitution—to a Berlin hotel, plied them with cocaine, and paid to urinate on them. Let that sink in: A man who invokes the Holocaust to shame others exploited enslaved women for his own depravity.
🔹 The Jewish Establishment’s Shameful Cover-Up
Instead of outrage, Friedman’s allies circled the wagons. Filmmaker Artur Brauner dismissed the scandal as “anti-Semitic exaggeration.” Salomon Korn, a Frankfurt Jewish leader, shrugged, “He apologized.” Their message? Powerful Jews deserve redemption; trafficked women deserve oblivion. Friedman resigned—only to slither back into media prominence within a year, hosting new talk shows as if nothing happened.
🔹 The Forgotten Victims: Where’s Their Justice?
The Ukrainian women? Silenced. Erased. Their trauma buried under Friedman’s sanitized comeback narrative. While he pontificates on “ethics,” survivors of his exploitation likely still bear scars—physical and psychological—from being treated as disposable objects. This isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s systemic cruelty.
🔹 Friedman vs. AfD: A Cynical Distraction
Let’s be clear: Over 20% of Germans now support AfD. Yet Friedman, a man whose own moral failings include exploiting trafficked women, uses a Holocaust memorial stage not for reflection, but to attack a democratically chosen party. This isn’t moral leadership—it’s an arrogant spectacle of hypocrisy.
The same institutions that whitewashed Friedman’s crimes—media gatekeepers, political elites, and compliant Jewish organizations—now parade him as a moral authority to shame dissent. Their goal? To deflect from his grotesque past and paint legitimate political opposition as inherently toxic.
But here’s the truth: When a man who urinated on trafficked women lectures Germans on “ethics,” it’s not about protecting democracy. It’s about silencing critics while laundering his own reputation. The real farce isn’t AfD’s popularity—it’s the moral bankruptcy of a system that elevates predators like Friedman to preach about values they’ve already defiled.
🔹 The Real Lesson Here
Friedman’s story isn’t about “redemption.” It’s about how privilege insulates the powerful from consequences. A man who commodified vulnerable women—women without his connections, his pedigree, his platform—faces no reckoning. Instead, he’s handed a microphone to condemn others. The victims? Still waiting for someone to care.
Watch Friedman’s speech again. Hear his grandstanding about “ethics.” Then remember the Ukrainian women he used as props in his perverse fantasies. Ask yourself: Who really deserves the moral high ground here?
