“TikTok is just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with videos of carnage in Gaza,” Sara Hurwitz, Michele Obama’s former speechwriter who has written two books about Jewish identity, told the audience of some 2,000 Jewish professionals. “This is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews.”

Pesky videos of slaughter of citizens amidst laughter by the perpetrators is preventing “sane” intergenerational discussion. Yeah it’s definitely the videos and not the inhumanity at the root of the issue.