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Living in the Bible Belt my whole life, I didn't really know a lot about Zionism or what it was.

And obviously with the genocide that is happening in Palestine, everybody has seen the images of these children and the war crimes of the Israeli government.

And you can't help but not dig deeper into it.

I've been shocked lately to see this woman named Sarah Hurwitz all over my timeline.

She is a former Obama speechwriter and a Zionist. And I haven't heard that many Zionists speak in my life because I've been in the throes of the Bible Belt fighting for gay rights, for abortion rights, for women, etc. And the more this woman speaks, the more I'm

convinced that she is experiencing some sort of psychosis and some sort of crazy cult. This is

breathtaking. Play the clip. I'm entering a post-literate society. And if like like, all day long, your brain is just smashed again and again by TikTok with really upsetting carnage in Gaza, then, like, they're, you're talking. And, like, not to, I'm sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but, like, when I'm trying to make arguments in favor, you know, for Israel, I realize I'm talking through a wall of dead children, like, that's what people are seeing. So when I'm like, yeah, but it's 1.5 civilians for, they're just seeing carnage. But that's the emotional blackmail. I mean, fair enough, but like, again, and that's nice, but like, again, I'm hearing that through a wall of screaming children. It's like, it's a, I think it's a harder argument than we we're

understanding. So I actually really strongly think that like Jewish day schools should

absolutely say no child owns a smartphone until the scene. Okay. So what strikes me about

this is that she's far more concerned about people seeing a wall of dead children, and therefore

we need to take away people's smartphones.

You could very easily, what strikes me about this is how somebody who, her whole identity

moving forward is the Holocaust happened to us, that you could very easily say, well, it's very difficult for Germany to make their case

about German nationalism with this wall of all of these people in concentration camps.

The fact that I guess Zionist or her in particular feels like we get to do that to anybody because

it happened to us. It is so divorced from reality. I watch a lot of documentaries about cults

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