Obama aide Hurwitz says it again: Gaza’s dead children are inconveniencing Israel

Barack Obama’s former speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz has ‘said the quiet part out loud’ about Israel’s genocide in Gaza again.

Hurwitz said last week – on camera, apparently without care or awareness of how it sounded – at a Zionist event that the “carnage” in Gaza is making it difficult to effectively petition for Israel and the similarities between Nazis killing helpless Jews, and “powerful Israelis hurting weak Palestinians”, were making it hard to advocate for the colonial project.

And now, speaking as part of a panel at the ‘Z3’ conference in California, she has complained that she is “talking through a wall of dead children”, making it hard for her to “argue in favour” of the Israel.

Hurwitz: saying the quiet part about Israel out loud

Hutwitz’s interviewer Benjamin Kerstein was no better, responding that images and videos of dead Palestinian children on social media are “emotional blackmail”, to which Hurwitz’s response was: “that’s nice… but it’s a harder argument than we’re understanding”.

Hurwitz’s solution to the ‘problem’ of dead Palestinian children making ‘hasbara’ on behalf of Israel harder?

Not, as anyone with humanity might imagine, to stop killing Palestinian children.

No, instead Hurwitz wants Jewish schools and parents to ban them from having smart phones – at all, at any time of day – to prevent them seeing footage showing the consequences of Zionism, because otherwise their brains will get ‘warped’, presumably by things like humanity, compassion, and opposition to injustice that would turn them against the genocidal colony:

Sick in the head

Could anything better illustrate the sickness of Zionism than Hurwitz’s comments? Slaughter, starvation, and ethnic cleansing – then moaning that it makes propaganda harder and might turn the kids of Zionists against the racist colonial project their parents love. As Palestinian writer-in-exile Yousef Munayyer observed:

It never dawns on them that maybe the solution is to just treat Palestinians as equal human beings. Ban cell phones, ditch holocaust education, shut down TikTok, sue the universities into the ground. All that is easier and more reasonable for them than treating us as humans.

The latest estimates by medical and statistical experts say that Israel has killed around half a million children in Gaza – more than half of those under five years of age – while they and their parents continue to face starvation and disease as Israel, despite its supposed ‘ceasefire’ obligations, still refuses to allow food and building materials into Gaza.

Israel is spending huge sums on online propaganda to pervert the output of AI systems in response to questions about Gaza, while its billionaire supporters buy up media and social media platforms to silence Palestinian voices and other platforms remove the evidence.

Featured image via the Canary