They are experts in that.

Next thing, they are going to make him do his army duty, (I personaly fail to understand why an American citizen born in the US, should be forced to take an Israeli passport and then be forced into the army, only because his father holds a Israeli passport, even he hasn't lived in Israel for 45 years).

My friends when applying for their students visa's used to put a fake name as their father's name, in order to avoid that problem (but they have to be careful and have a full story, because they can decide to question you, what was your grandfather's name Etc.)