12/12/2025
This is part of why I don’t support the social media ban for our children. Kids need education, critical reasoning skills and MORE discussion, not less.
That’s why I wrote NOTHING ALIKE, about the tricky topic of seeing people solely through the lens of race, and why I was happy it was published by Bright Light Publishing, shining a light on tricky topics💡
I like this comment:
“Her logic is twisted beyond belief. The young people HAVE learned the lessons of the Holocaust; hence, they are calling it out and being disgusted by genocide when they see it. Kudos to those young people for understanding evil.”
Sarah Hurwitz, author and former speechwriter for the Obamas, has suggested that Holocaust education is failing.
For Hurwitz, the problem lies with universal lessons being applied to Israel, an unacceptable outcome in her view.
Journalist Spencer Ackerman responded at Forever Wars, “I feel like I’m going to lose my mind if I don’t address her astonishing remark that Holocaust education in the United States has improperly taught a universal lesson against genocide."
Speaking to the 2025 general assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Hurwitz claimed last week that “since October 7 [2023], but really before then, there have been huge shifts in America on how people think about Jews and Israel, and I think that is especially true of young people. So we are now wrestling with a new – I think – generational divide here, and I think that’s particularly true in that social media is now our source of media.”
Social media, notwithstanding all its viciousness, does provide some vital information. Hurwitz dislikes it, however, because social and alternative media also highlight Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza.
News sources other than mainstream corporate media are making an enormous difference in getting a fuller picture of the Gaza reality to the American public.
Having watched hundreds of hours of CNN during the Gaza genocide, I can attest to how frequently the network downplays Palestinian deaths and ignores Palestinian accounts of Israeli war crimes and torture. Younger people are getting a much more unfiltered view of the genocide than older viewers relying on a CNN out of touch with reality and profoundly biased toward Israeli apartheid (which goes almost entirely unmentioned by the network).
(📸 Thor Brødreskift / Nordiske Mediedager)
Excerpt from "Do the lessons of the Holocaust apply to Israel and 'skinny Palestinians'?" by Michael F. Brown. Read the full article at https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/do-lessons-holocaust-apply-israel-and-skinny-palestinians
