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.”
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.