I heard his dad was Jewish.
But he isn’t.
That was part of the Crump invention. By claiming Zimmerman was Jewish it helped stoke the anger of the black pampers and the Nation of Islam crowd.
Plus it diverted many people from noticing that Zimmerman’s mom is a quarter black and three quarters native Peruvian. Claiming he was of a very insular ethnicity made it seem less likely his father would have married a woman of another racial mix, and reinforced the Whitey meme.
So yes, you heard that, but it was no more true than the claim Trayvon was a little child instead of six foot two, or the claim that Trayvon had no history of violence.