…and here’s a passionate and excellent evisceration of Hurwitz’s ghoulish, and IMO, absolutely obscene rhetoric:
It is not ignorance that drives the comparison of the genocide Israel inflicts upon Palestine to the Holocaust. It is not TikTok smashing anyone’s brain. It is historical memory. And that historical memory, which Hurwitz wants more than anything not to confront, is triggered by Israeli behavior. The behavior of powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians. Of gleefully raiding their lingerie drawers, bombing their hospitals, destroying their cultural symbols, raping them in captivity, turning them into numbers for industrial-scale murder. Of describing their children as the enemy.
What Hurwitz objects to is that Holocaust education works. She is not upset that TikTok is driving misperceptions of the genocide. She is upset that the various social media vectors through which people hear directly from Palestinians drive accurate perceptions of the genocide. She is upset that those perceptions are unavoidable because of Holocaust education. Fearful of activating antisemitism, she doesn’t want Israelis, or any Jews, to be thought of as rapacious murderers. I sympathize. But the only way that will happen is for Israel, whose flag displays the Star of David, to stop murdering Palestinians (and Lebanese, and Syrians, and Iranians, and Yemenis, and and and), and for Jewish institutions beyond Israel to stop rationalizing it.