cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11379
Since Israel began bombarding Gaza and starving its population of more than 2 million Palestinians in October 2023, the consensus that the Israeli government is committing genocide has steadily grown to include international and Israeli human rights groups, a United Nations panel, Holocaust scholars, and nearly 40% of Jewish Americans, according to one striking recent survey.
But in 10 words, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday waved away the findings of respected groups like Amnesty International and renowned experts like Brown University professor Omer Bartov, when she commented on why young Americans are expressing support for Palestinians.
“They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok,” said Clinton.
Without pointing to any evidence, the former secretary of state said young people in the US are “seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information” about Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
She added that “it’s not just the usual suspects”—without naming who those pro-Palestinian “suspects” are.
“It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand,” she said. “A lot of the challenge is with younger people.”
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.” https://t.co/rUVXRqK2rK pic.twitter.com/hAwG7Gbhwf
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) December 2, 2025Her remarks echoed those of former Obama White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, who spoke recently about the challenges Zionists are presented with when they try to defend Israel to young Jewish people who have seen widely available, credible images and news out of Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and is continuing to restrict humanitarian aid despite a ceasefire deal reached in October.
“Anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage,” Hurwitz lamented last month, drawing condemnation.
Clinton was speaking at an event in New York City for Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, which is run by billionaire Miriam Adelson, a megadonor to President Donald Trump. Adelson published an editorial in the Jewish Journal in November 2023 saying pro-Palestinian protesters “are dead to us,” and her late husband, Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, said in 2014 that the Palestinians are “an invented people.”
Jeremy Slevin, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), pointed to the irony of Clinton attending an event associated with the Adelsons and then claiming that “the kids are being radicalized by anti-Israel propaganda.”
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Clinton has frequently claimed that pro-Palestinian Americans, particularly students who took part in nationwide campus protests last year as they urged the Biden administration to comply with US law and stop funding Israel’s attacks on Gaza, are simply misinformed about Palestine and ignorant of history, particularly pointing to the 2000 Camp David Summit hosted by former President Bill Clinton.
The former secretary of state has repeated the claim that the Palestinians were offered a “generous deal” at the meeting and “walked away”—a “myth” that Camp David negotiator Robert Malley has debunked, warning it’s been used by Clinton and others to “justify Israel’s genocide.”
Robert Malley on the myth of “Palestinians walked away” at Camp David (July 2000):
➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year,… pic.twitter.com/3vlf1Rl4qj
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 28, 2025“She’s the one getting the history wrong,” including at the Israel Hayom event, said Drop Site News on Tuesday.
A number of observers took issue with Clinton’s suggestion that anti-Israel sentiment in the US is being driven solely by young people, with Just Security executive editor Adil Haque issuing a “periodic reminder that the biggest shift in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine has been among older Democrats.”
In 2022, 43% Democratic voters ages 50 and up had an unfavorable view of Israel. That percentage has risen sharply since Israel began its onslaught in Gaza, with 66% of those voters reporting an unfavorable view in a Pew Research Center poll this year.
Meanwhile, 71% of Democrats ages 49 and under opposed Israel in the same poll, and 62% of them had expressed opposition in 2022, denoting a less extreme shift in opinion.
“Democrats get their news from CNN more than other mainstream sources,” said Haque, pointing to the network’s recent investigation about Palestinian aid-seekers who were killed by Israeli forces. “If you’re a 60-year-old with grandkids and you read or watch CNN’s Gaza reporting, you don’t need TikTok to know that what’s happening is very, very wrong.”
Dylan Williams, vice president of government affairs at the Center for International Policy, also suggested Clinton has an inaccurate view of who opposes Israel’s ongoing attacks on Palestinians.
“I’m nearly 50. I don’t use TikTok. I listen to NPR ‘Morning Edition’ and read the Financial Times daily,” said Williams. “I’m a lawyer who has worked on Israel-Palestine issues for the last 20 years. The evidence I’ve seen that Israel committed atrocities including genocide in Gaza is overwhelming.”
Author Jason Overstreet wondered how Clinton would explain the findings of human rights groups like Amnesty International and Israel-based B’Tselem, which pointed to testimonies by Israeli soldiers and the documented destruction of Gaza’s food system when it concluded in a report in July that Israel is committing genocide in the exclave.
“I guess Hillary Clinton also thinks that Amnesty International called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide because they saw some videos on TikTok and just ‘did not know history,’” said Overstreet. “Young people’s views on Israel are based on young people knowing that Israel has committed genocide.”
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For the infernal demon keeping scorecard: technically it wasn’t on TikTok where I saw the clip of the Israeli drone playing the sounds of a distressed woman over a speaker to lure people out of the rubble so they could be blown up. That was twitter. Oh, and the footage I saw of a bunch of starving cats chewing on the orifices of dead people’s faces being scared away by a flashlight? Twitter too!
This fucking ghoul needs to get bone, brain, and colon cancer and die.
Anything else?
Why the fuck won’t she just GO AWAY?!
This snippet pretty much says it all about the big club that we’re not in:
Clinton was speaking at an event in New York City for Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, which is run by billionaire Miriam Adelson, a megadonor to President Donald Trump
And what do they even think they’re doing by giving speeches like this and taking such hardline Zionism? Everyday clueless libs are increasingly distrustful of Zionist propaganda. Harris threw away her slim chance at the presidency for the sake of continuing the genocide. Chuck Schumer once said something like his primary goal is to keep the democratic party pro-Israel.
These people would throw away their entire careers for Israel. It’s the one line they don’t cross and they will gladly sacrifice popular support, political clout, and even their jobs as elected officials if it means serving Israel. I hate these people so much and I hope hell has room for them
do youse guys think maybe israel having a pedophilia sex blackmail mossad operation that apparently seems to include bill clinton and many other democrats might be a reason why
“Who would have thought that not having sex with trafficked children would be so difficult?” (Republicans and Dems alike)
Israel is only allowed to run that because Zionism is a useful tool of US imperialism
But once they have it, the blackmail power is real
To wield on individuals, yes, but the bourgeoisie can cast them out like it casts out other elements that it finds non-viable.
the bourgeoisie
This is treating the ruling class too much like a single coherent, coordinated blob. Who would “cast them out” and with what mechanisms?
They are coherent and generally act with class solidarity, that’s like the whole basis of Marxist class analysis, that the ruling class behaves that way.
What I mean is that the people who didn’t get blackmailed massively outnumber the ones who did and have much more collective power, so if they found this operation intolerable, they would either just cause an “accident” or take legal action against them, probably avoiding exposing the real scope of how it happened but doing a limited hangout type thing.
it occurs to me the zealous hillary clinton support for israel could be epstein connected. like if she didn’t stay on message, bill’s sex trips (and her awareness of them / complicity) would be exposed, killing her career and the family name in politics for a generation.
i only have this theory because i don’t see how the AIPAC money can be worth it at this point.
You can’t buy the loyalty Hillary has for Israel, she’s in it for the love of the game.
That Obama & Clinton speechwriter has been saying the same thing in public interviews for weeks and everyone hates her.
I may not be… the president of the US, but I will just make the same point as that speechwriter, only with less charisma. It will surely work
Hillary has been stuck in a 50+ year humiliation ritual run by the Illuminati. Since she is too fucking thick to realize it, it’s still going on.
This might sound crazy, but it’s more sane then the idea that ANY society would let her keep being in the spotlight after everything she has said and done.
Clinton was speaking at an event in New York City for Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, which is run by billionaire Miriam Adelson, a megadonor to President Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton reminding us yet again that she’s a neolib piece of shit
The real Never Forget in NYC
god I wish she’d just die already
Pokemon Go to your casket!
All I’m saying is, Melinda Gates left her Bill when it turned out he was an Epstein bestie.
Not convinced Bill and Hillary have been in the same room for many years tbh
Either that or she’s as depraved as he is. Birds of a feather.
She shoots a clone of Bill every night before bed to calm her nerves but Bill Prime hasn’t been in her wing of the estate for over a decade.
So sick of seeing the fucking Clintons. Cant they just fuck off to some remote island and spend whatever that is left of their lives like presumably other filthy rich elites?
some remote island
Bill already visited it, maybe Hilldog didn’t want to relocate
please do not put the clintons on a remote island. we’ve already seen what happens when that happens
Americans love to project. They think china is doing what Americans do with their social media.
I do personally unironically believe that TikTok is the main reason why Palestinian genocide awareness has skyrocketed in the west. Instead of relying on 100% US-censored social media, a little gap of social media without US-censorship opened, and this crested an influx of information about Gaza that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible (and then got transmitted to the rest of social networks). I would love to see a scientific study about this.
It was very “right place, right time” for TikTok, and the audience of young people who have known nothing but the general doldrums of the war on terror but weren’t around for the justifications that started it all were the prime demographic
She’s never seen a country she didn’t want to bomb so this is just her being consistent in her values
“values”
Even the really small obscure ones, like those atoll nations that are like fifty families in the middle of the ocean. She dreams of going Castle Bravo on their asses.
Somebody get the contrapoints reaction seeing that her bestie is out in public again
Wait like is there a certain reaction image you’re referencing, or just a general joke?
Lil hangout/interview with the Clintons for an Apple TV series called “Gutsy”
Oh word I remember that one, thought there was maybe something I wasn’t up to date with
She became an unironjc Hillary lib
You either die a Marxist cat girl or live long enough to see yourself become a girl boss
She’s the only one who had to take up two lines with “btw this is my internet username” lmaooo that’s so lame
Expect nothing less from the ghoul that laughed abour Libya going up in flames and was praising kissinger till the end. This is a horrible person
“We came, we saw, he died.” cue Hillary laugh.
witches cackle
Could it be them continuously, mercilessly violating “ceasefires” with impunity convincing people of their evil? Nope must be the tiktoks
“Israelis are posting their war crimes and crimes against humanity all over social media. Clearly the problem is the Ticket Docks and not Isrealis killing children.”
Reminder that Trump got “fake news” from a Hillary speech he watched coverage of on Fox News. Hillary’s been on this new media hate campaign shit for years.
He also got the Birther shit from her too
Birther shit is pretty much white supremacist SOP.
Yeah, now, but hilldawg started that in her '08 run against obama, didn’t she? Shes the modern o.g. unless there’s someone I’m forgetting.
I can’t tell you, I’m afraid because google is such shit now, but when I first learned about the Maduro one it was in the context of much older colonial white supremacy examples in South America and the Obama stuff was considered more of a footnote of modern day movements. Iirc, PoC US Senators and Congressmen have had birther movements as well, though theirs was less about office eligibility and more an attack of character.
Ah, i see, hillary is just the first that i remember ig
say it ain’t so Maduro
For this and so many other reasons, Hillary Clinton needs to Pokemon Go straight to hell
