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Former Obama speechwriter blames social media for shifts in youth views about 'Israel'

At a recent Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Washington, D.C., former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz pointed to what she sees as the loss of the media ecosystem that once protected the Zionist narrative. "It used to be that the media you got in America was American media, and it was pretty mainstream. You know, it generally didn't express extreme anti-Israel views," she said. Hurwitz further complained that TikTok, for example, is "just smashing our young people's brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza," which makes it impossible to have a "sane conversation with younger Jews" about "Israel". She even suggested that Holocaust education has "confused" the new generation because they learned to identify oppression universally, and not selectively. Hurwitz's frustration reveals that the problem, for her, is not the Israeli starvation, mass killing, and forced displacement of Palestinians, but the fact that young people can see the Israeli aggression