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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.”

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[-] londos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Shocking she thought this was a thoughtful take to say publicly.

[-] sbbq@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago
[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It’s honestly one of the most horrifying statements I’ve ever read.

[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

How was this person a senior speechwriter jfc. Those speeches must have been terrible if this is the sort of garbage that spews out of her mouth.

[-] DaMummy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It's a good thing Obama never bombed a Muslim country.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The video of her litany is somehow even crazier than this quote. It just gets worse and worse.

[-] lilas105@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 day ago

United States of Israel.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

They get it, but they don't get it. Seems like it's breaking their brains. Probably playing us for fools.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

"They learn about big, strong Nazis"

Umm no we don't. I think they may have confused their erotica with their history book

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago
[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago
[-] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Thank you for finding the timestamp for us! I was looking at the video and couldn't stand listening to the people speaking before her even and just wanted to see the actual quotes.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Bro what the fuck...

[-] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Palestinians are also Semites…

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Sounds like these people need Holocaust education too

[-] Hellotypewriter@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 day ago

Israel, one of your propagandists got loose!

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Have they tried NOT KILLING?

They should try not killing and see how that goes.

[-] freshcow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Come on, this has to be satire, right?

[-] SayJess 3 points 1 day ago

Bruh her website is hilarious. Archive link

But seriously, fuck Zionism and anyone who supports the genocide.

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

This lady absolutely smashed it. 1000% correct. It's pretty unfortunate she thinks she's wrong about it

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[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Show me the equivalent suffering the various US wars caused? Where is the footage of starving Iraq children?

Show me the reports of non-combatants murdered by the US military trying to access aid drops?

Show me articles where the US blockade foreign aid to war zones?

Can't because it doesn't fucking exist.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 9 points 21 hours ago

Don't whitewash those wars. Sure, Israel is going above and beyond in finding new and exiting war crimes to commit, but the US wars were also horrendous.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

I didn't. I get it now. What they've saying. This isn't about genocide. Not really.

My mistake for thinking people actually cared about civilians deaths and wouldn't give genocides are fucking whataboutism argument.

Fucking stupid. You are literally making the argument for Israel to claim it wasn't so bad, it's just part of war.

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