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Top Dem Speechwriter Says Young Jews' Empathy for Gaza Shows Holocaust Education Has Backfired | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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Brett Wilkins
Nov 19, 2025

A speechwriter for prominent Democrats including former President Barack Obama and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Kerry faced widespread outrage this week after video emerged of her blaming Holocaust education for young Jews’ empathy for Palestinians in Gaza and revulsion at Israel’s genocidal war there.

Earlier this week, Sarah Hurwitz—who was also a senior speechwriter for former First Lady Michelle Obama and other Democrats—spoke at the opening plenary of this year’s Jewish Federations of North America general assembly in Washington, DC. The event featured speakers including Free Press staff writer Olivia Reingold, who implicitly attempted to absolve Israel from blame for the Gaza famine by noting that 12 of the at least 463 Palestinians who starved to death had preexisting health conditions.

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

"Somehow we have to course-correct on this 'murdering helpless people is wrong' message now that we're doing the murdering."

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awww, we really fucked up by teaching people that... genocide is bad?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well they didn't fuck up that bad, considering there are millions of Jews who think genocide is only wrong when they aren't the benefactors.