Hurwitz has a way with words
It honestly makes a lot of sense that Sarah Hurwitz, former senior speechwriter for the Obamas, has been able to build a career out of her writing, while I, despite being roughly the same age, have only published one book (appreciate any support for my novel "Under The Full and Crescent Moon"). And this is because she is an incredible writer. I say this as...
... in two separate Zionist12 conferences in November 202534 her descriptions of the horrors inflicted on Palestinians by Israel are, frankly, inspired.
She calls it carnage, which really captures the violent chaos that Palestinian lives have been engulfed by at the hands of the Zionist state in a way that words I have used like massacre and slaughter, don't. In a rhetorical masterstroke she describes trying to communicate with younger anti-Zionist Jewish people as attempting to talk through a "wall of dead children" which not only evokes the image of a barrier of mutual misunderstanding but one that lays bare the crime of crimes Israel has not only committed, but continues to, ceasefire agreements signed by the state be damned.
And she complains her attempts to defend all this makes her 'sound obscene'. You know there really do exist such things as perfect word choices, and obscene, here, is exactly that. I cannot think of a better way to get across the sheer obviousness of Israeli depravity. The gleeful displays on social media as Zionist soldiers proudly destroy empty water treatment plants and universities, burn food pallets meant to alleviate starvation, and parade around in the lingerie of the Palestinian women whose lives they have destroyed. This obscenity transfers onto anybody attempting to defend these indefensible actions.
Why defend when you can control information instead?
To her and her Zionist audience in these conferences the carnage does not need to be defended. It is assumed to be necessary, perhaps even praiseworthy. The failures of rationality or morality that leads them to these horrific conclusions are only barely touched upon, a passing reference to 'Islamists' here, a mention of how antiSemitism is nothing like anti-black racism there. Hurwitz's stated purpose is to respond to the failure of older Zionists to pass on their genocidal values onto the next generation by taking away their access to social media until they have been properly groomed to put the carnage in some, to her, appropriate context.
And what kind of grooming is required to properly prepare young Jewish minds to justify the walls of dead children that Hurwitz so evocatively described? I'm thankful that I have no idea, but it seems like Hurwitz does as she seems to have been subjected to it herself in her elder millennial social media free youth, insulated from the reality of the atrocities visited daily upon the people of Palestine by the Zionist entity of Israel, until she was properly prepared by her Zionist forebears to justify the unjustifiable. It won't work, and the more we platform Palestinian voices to continue to lay bare the sickness of the Zionism they have been subjected to, the faster we can turn the page on this ethno-supremacist ideology and bring freedom and justice to Palestine and Palestinians.
Thankfulness
I may never be able to make a living from my writing as Hurwitz has been able to, but if the cost of such opportunity was to be my soul, then I need to be on my knees five times a day thanking god that I haven't.
All opinions my own, in the end only God knows best.