Former White House aide Sarah Hurwitz, who served as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, warned this week that Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”
She continued:
“You have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza, and this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they’re just seeing in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene.”
And you know, I think, unfortunately, the very smart bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-Semitism education, in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about anti-Semitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews and then they think, “Oh, anti-Semitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people.” So, when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, “Oh I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
Perhaps the similarity is apparent because
ISRAEL IS COMMITTING A FUCKING HOLOCAUST
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Principled morality, what even is it?
Basically saying "We accidentally taught kids that the powerful preying on the weak and powerless is evil and now they can only see the carnage when we tell them to support the genociders like they’re supposed to.
We accidentally gave them the critical thinking skills to identify fascism-fueled genocide and this is bad because now we’re the ones trying to do it and they can’t see past all the carnage and genocide their tax dollars are sponsoring when we try to convince them to support it. Stupid kids."
Conflating the state of Israel and criticism of the actions of the state of Israel with anti- semitism is doing the work of anti-semites.
We know that we’re looking at: a Holocaust.
That’s literally what’s actually fucking happening.
Palestine is experiencing a Holocaust.
And the fascist state of Israel is inflicting it.
So yeah. Holocaust education worked.
STOP IT YOU’RE CONFUSING THE CHILDREN
Dammit I gotta go back to my elementary education. What did I learn there?
Fuck.
Also zionism predates nazism.
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The crusades and modern zionism have nothing to do with one another.
So her argument is that the lesson of the Holocaust was NOT that racism is wrong, that religious intolerance is wrong, that the overwhelming power of the strong used on the weak is wrong, that systemic genocide and ethnic cleansing are wrong. No, the lesson of the Holocaust is that antisemitism, AND SPECIFICALLY ONLY ANTISEMITISM, is wrong. You fucking moronic children that are angry over a powerful Jewish ethnostate systematically genociding and ethnic cleansing a weaker population due to their race and religion… you’ve missed the point of your Holocoaust education! Being Jewish makes their actions right, and saying otherwise is antisemitic.
Jesus fucking Christ, lady. You have managed to amplify this stupid antisemitic argument to absurd levels by claiming Holocaust education should, in fact, lead one to support carnage and genocide. A new low. You’re a monster, congrats.
But, like, Palestinians are by definition also semites, so it’s now antisemitism to criticize semites committing antisemitisim…
You’re semantically correct, but that isn’t the colloquial understanding of the term, nor what they mean when they say ‘antisemitism’.
GI Robot would be having the time of his life in modern day America.
These morons have zero qualifications for speaking on issues like this.
“Oh I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
Yes, that’s the lesson of the holocaust. If in your mind the lesson of the holocaust is that Israel get one free genocide, you are fucking psychotic.
The fact that those words came out of her mouth and she didn’t immediately stop and go “Oh, fuck, I’m the bad guy here” is completely insane. How cooked does your brain have to be for you to even be able to say something like that in the first place?
It’s pretty clear she’s gotten past this contradiction long ago.
So the answer is fried into a crisp
PRECISELY!
Israel, of all factions, should know better than anyone:
INFLICTING
A
HOLOCAUST
IS,
um, *checks notes*
BAD,
ACTUALLY.I’m sure these ghouls don’t think the hall pass is limited to just one genocide.
The lesson in her mind and the minds of those who think like her is that Jews were victims in the Holocaust, therefore the state of Israel has an unrestricted right to do anything it wants in the name of security. It can commit systematic mass murder and terrorism against the entire population of Gaza, it can turn a blind eye when Israeli terrorists do the same in the West Bank, it can shamelessly spy on and steal technology from its closest ally, it can negotiate in bad faith. Nothing matters because the thought process begins with “Israel is in the right.” Everything flows from that belief.
Oh yeah that makes sense–you see, if a crime is done to you, you’re ALLOWED to do it to others yourself forever! It’s EXACTLY like how people who were victims of trafficking and molestation when they were children get a free pass to rape all the kids they could ever want to for the rest of their lives, right? /s
No, you’re still not getting it. She’s saying that Jews that are the master race, so they get to do as many genocides as they want.
sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”
I.e. sympathising with victims instead of fascists? Hell yeah.
You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.
Uhm… yeah?!
Like, this is fundamentally the basic plot of one most famous and watched movies of all time.
Star Wars: weak impoverished kid has his family slaughtered by the unstoppable Empire. Finds power in his faith and a “terrorist” resistance group to overcome their impossible power.
And yes. I know star wars was written as the Rebels representing the VeitCong. Almost like imperialism and genocide are on the wrong side of history.
We are not confused and neither are those kids. You show them what happened in germany and they rightfully compare it to what is happening today.
You know, I can somewhat understand how some people that have been exposed to Israeli propaganda can think Israel isn’t in the wrong. I don’t excuse it, mind you, because all the evidence is right here to disprove it if they bothered to check, but ultimately it just shows how effective propaganda can be in the information age.
What I can’t wrap my mind around is how a seemingly smart person can say they saw all the evidence, talk about the “carnage” going on and how “powerful people are hurting the weak”, and still come to the conclusion that the real victims are those same powerful people responsible for the carnage. I really can’t understand what must happen in someone’s brain to be like that
I don’t know what other jew’s Jewish education looked like and what they took away from it, but clearly I somehow got a completely different message from all of it.
When I was told “Never again” it meant never again for anybody. Like we should be the first ones to decry against any genocide anywhere because it was done against us.
So seeing what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is so grotesque to me. They don’t speak for me and yet they do these horrible things supposedly in my name.
The irony was that I did buy most of the Hasbara up until I went on Birthright (this is a fully paid trip that diaspora Jews can go to Israel to build the connection with it). When I was there my own tour guide (the person paid to propagandize us) said that they want the fighting to stop, they want to stop everyone from having their children to die pointlessly. Literally after that the spell broke. It became so easy to see the Hasbara and how it is causing problems.
Like you want the fighting to end then make it so. Stop terrorizing the Palestinians and stop the apartheid, let them reside on the land they have lived in for centuries and coexist. You only make them your enemy by grinding them beneath your boot. The land Israel is made from doesn’t belong to one people, it has a rich history where all of them have descended from. Israel isn’t just for the Jewish people, Muslims, Christians, and others also have claims to that land (fucking hell it’s the same deity for the first three and you’re all kinda just blending shit together anyways).
I feel like I didn’t have some magical education that taught me differently, I guess I just took what they meant at their word and applied the concepts to the modern world (like we were fucking taught to do). For a people who pride themselves on being educated it feels like people memorized a lot of stuff and didn’t actually process it or question it (again like you’re fucking supposed to).
Sorry for the rant but seeing people who are fairly left leaning (US standards) become bloodthirsty ghouls the moment Palestinians are brought up like a fucking light switch has been really bothering me. I feel like I’m somehow in the wrong because everyone else has gone literally insane.
My father was an Arab muslim, and was involved in the fight for Palestinian rights for as a long as I can remember, until he died of cancer a few months before the October 7th attacks. I never really thought much about his activism and was never curious enough to ask him questions about what he was actually doing.
When he was on his death bed at the hospital and I was staying with him, we got visited by members of his town’s Jewish community. They told me he was a great guy, and that throughout his years as an activist for Palestinian rights he has always strived to build bridges between Muslim and Jewish communities and always made it clear that the palestine-israel conflict shouldn’t be an excuse to antisemitism or islamophobia. They also told me he took part in a humanitarian trip in Palestine with them, as a translator, and was instrumental in bridging the gap between them and their Palestinian contacts. I never knew he did all that and it really made me proud.
What sometimes still keeps me up at night is to think that, should he have lived to see the current events, he would probably have been called a raging antisemite by the assholes we see all over the media.
Clearly some folks took “never again” to mean, “Never again will Jews be the victims of genocide. They’ll be the perpetrators instead!”
It makes sense when you realize she doesn’t see Palestinians as humans.
Hasbara starts from the position of Israel genociding Palestinians, and then explaining why it’s actually okay because Israelis are the real victims. When you haven’t been indoctrinated with this kind of propaganda your whole life it sounds kind of weird and Nazi like, but for Israelis it makes perfect sense.
For example have you ever considered that Palestinians toddlers are subhuman terrorists and Israelis are the Ubermensch? It’s a very convincing argument.
Yeah, the duality of pretending to be a state who cares about stopping discrimination is clashing with decades of supporting organizations that just so happen to be run by literally Nazis.
The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is breaking ties with the heritage foundation over the whole Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview. Like…it took Nick Fuentes to alert you that the Heritage Foundation was a bunch of neo Nazi, not all the Nazi shit you’ve been doing together?
Of course during the interview the leader of the NTFC said they were still primarily focused on the antisemitism in the “Left”, but we’re now going to shift some attention to this new development of antisemitism on the alt right.
What the fuck is wrong with this person?
The worst kind of Zionism.
They’re a Nazi. Only difference is the flag and which group is considered superior. Literally everything else is the same.
These are the people who make sure we never outlaw routine neonatal circumcision.
Call it what it really is:
Ritualistic child mutilation.
She’s a moral, religious person. That’s what.
You got an extra space in the word amoral.
She’s mad that kids are taught to sympathize with the victims of oppression?
I’m no marvelhead but Captain America nailed it:
“I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.”
