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.”
Principled morality, what even is it?
Perhaps the similarity is apparent because
ISRAEL IS COMMITTING A FUCKING HOLOCAUST
These morons have zero qualifications for speaking on issues like this.
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.
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."
GI Robot would be having the time of his life in modern day America.
Weak, skinny Palestinians? As opposed to the muscular athletic Nazi concentration camp inmates…
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
Also zionism predates nazism.
Isn’t it literally why the crusades happened?
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.
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’.
(She is obscene)
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.
But that’s exactly the lesson. You help the weak supressed civilians against the powerful authoritarian racist military.
Religion is not the part that mattered in the Holocaust.
Good people should sympathize with Palestinians
Good be do sympathize with Palestinians, those that don’t have some extremely fucked up morals.
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.”
