⚡️🎙️ NEW - Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says she went looking for “Israel’s original sin” — and came up empty.

“I felt a lot of anxiety about Israel… I hate to say this now, but on some deep level I thought there was something fundamentally problematic about Israel’s founding — that if I did enough research I’d find it and wouldn’t be able to defend it.”

She says she feels “embarrassed” about that instinct now, because after her research she concluded Israel is “completely unexceptional in its founding.”

An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed during the 1948 Nakba by Zionist militias that later formed the Israeli army, and more than 750,000 – around 80% of the Arab population of what became Israel – were forcibly displaced. Hurwitz said “we need to normalize” Israel’s founding for young people.