Sarah Hurwitz and the human carnage no argument can break

What does it mean when the truth itself becomes unbearable? Not a distorted truth, not a manipulated image, but the unfiltered reality of what is being done in our name. Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for Barack and Michelle Obama, recently offered an answer at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly (Mondoweiss: “Sarah Hurwitz and liberal Zionism’s hail mary” https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sarah-hurwitz-and-liberal-zionisms-hail-mary/). Young Jews, she said, are being exposed to “video of carnage in Gaza.” The images, she admitted, create a “wall” that no argument can penetrate. She meant this as a problem to be solved. But let us sit with what she actually said. The obstacle to her narrative is not misinformation but in the very act of documentation. The […]