But the media thought that he was. At the beginning they just had a name. Their thought process was,” Looks like we got us a Jew. If not Jewish, he is at least White. Lets get him.”
In so far as I know, no one in the MSM, nor any media outlet, put out any story claiming that George Zimmerman is Jewish.
So, though the MSM deserves an upbraiding for its overall amping up racial tensions in the black communities by their deceitful portrayal of George Zimmerman, at least they didn't falsely inflame the situation even more by introducing lies about Zimmerman's alleged Jewishness.
We've seen too much anti-Semitic violence by radical blacks in past rioting, e.g., Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY, in 1991. Jewish-owned businesses were frequently targeted by rioters in the 1960s urban riots.