Progressive Perspectives on Hillary Clinton’s Comments on Pro-Palestine “Propaganda” and TikTok

At an event hosted by an Israeli news outlet owned by Israeli-American billionaire and Trump donor Miriam Adelson, Hillary Clinton says young Americans fell victim to pro-Palestine “propaganda” on social media.

She makes no mention of corporate media’s role in pushing hoaxes following October 7 or publishing Israeli government talking points without scrutiny

– Qasim Rashid
via social media
December 3, 2025

Hillary Clinton is out here claiming young people, including young Jewish people, are only pro Palestine because of TikTok – not because of the painfully documented fact by dozens of human rights organizations confirming genocide, famine, mass rape, and war crimes by IDF.

No acknowledgment that people are relying on social media because the Israeli government has illegally blocked out all international media and killed more than 250 journalists inside Gaza. Her claim is “Just believe Netanyahu.” Absurd.

– Qasim Rashid
via social media
December 3, 2025

[Israel’s genocide in Gaza] is more documented and more confessed to than any other genocide-as-it-happened in history. We have detailed reports from the United Nations, non-governmental organizations [NGOs] ranging from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch to Médecins Sans Frontières. We have detailed studies from the likes of Airwars, an NGO comprised of experts who looked at 606 incidents of civilian harm in the first 25 days of the genocide alone in October 2023. According to the most conservative estimates, at least 5,139 civilians were killed in the sample of 606 attacks they analyzed. They made sure to say this was just a fraction. They found evidence of Hamas military casualties in just 26 of those 606 attacks. That’s just 4% of cases. The number of militants believed to be actually killed was between 32 and 60.

We also have overwhelming evidence of Israeli soldiers gleefully posting their war crimes, yes, Hillary, on TikTok, as well as an avalanche of statements of genocide and criminal intent issued by Israeli leaders and officials.

Hillary Clinton should not just be seen as a political failure who handed Donald Trump power in the United States. She’s a monster, with blood on her hands, who was associated with some of the great foreign policy catastrophes and crimes of our age.

The younger generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, that she smears are far more knowledgable and moral than she is. And it’s not hard to be more moral than Hillary Clinton because there’s no evidence of any moral compass at all.

– Owen Jones
Excerpted from “Hillary Clinton Blames TikTok
for Opposition to Israel's Genocide”
via YouTube
December 3, 2025

By boiling down backlash against Israel to a social media problem, Clinton and her allies seem to have forgotten they’re still in an echo chamber that they built with their own hands and words.

– John Smith
via social media
December 3, 2025

[Clinton’s] 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 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.”

“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.”

– Julia Conley
Excerpted from “Hillary Clinton Joins in Blaming TikTok
for Young Americans’ View That Israel
Is Committing Genocide”
Common Dreams
December 3, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
Hillary Clinton Blames TikTok for Gaza “Propaganda.” She Can’t See Her Own Complicity – Etan Nechin (Haaretz, December 3, 2025).
Hillary Clinton Blames TikTok for Young People Turning Against Israel – Glenn Greenwald (System Update, December 3, 2025).
Hillary Clinton Teams Up With Miriam Adelson – Sabrina Salvati (Sabby Sabs, December 3, 2025).

Image: Jacquelyn Martin / AP.