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.”
Yeah, I think its not this.
The stupidest people in Gaza attacked Israel and took hostages. Ofcourse Israel attacked to get hostages back but didn’t get any.
At that moment, someone rational would have chosen to locate the evil in Gaza and remove it surgically. Instead they basically carpet murdered everyone and destroyed everything. That’s a Holocaust level offence.
In contrast, the people in NewYork and elsewhere did not cause a Holocaust. Its not us Jewish community and the rest of the world, its you, Israeli government and military.
This is my opinion based only on the bits and pieces that I get to read, hear and watch. I’m not Jewish but I care deeply about not causing a Holocaust by murdering millions of people regardless if they are Jews or only pray to Uncle Pedro to find their keys on Wednesdays. You just don’t murder people at random.