Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now reportedly sounding the alarm about young Americans allegedly becoming sympathetic to Palestinians, which she blames on “totally made up” videos circulating on TikTok and other social media platforms.
Speaking Tuesday at a New York conference hosted by the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, Clinton complained that “smart, well-educated young people” in the U.S. and around the world were consuming pro-Palestinian content online that she says misrepresents what’s happening in Gaza.
“Where were they getting their information?” Clinton asked. “They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok.”
She claimed young people are forming their opinions about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack and the subsequent war based on short-form videos rather than facts or historical context — and argued this trend threatens democracy in both Israel and the U.S.
“That’s a serious problem,” Clinton declared. “When I tried to talk to young people to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.”
Clinton even suggested many young Jewish Americans have been misled by this content.
“It’s not just the usual suspects,” she said. “It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She warned that because “more than 50% of young people in America get their news from social media,” they are being indoctrinated by deceptive content.
“Some of them are totally made up,” Clinton insisted. “Some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information.”
Her comments come as the Democratic Party faces deep internal fractures over Israel, with younger voters — a key Democratic voting bloc — increasingly siding with Palestinians, often criticizing President Biden and establishment Democrats for supporting Israel.
Clinton is not the only Obama-era figure sounding the alarm. Former Obama White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz recently made similar remarks during a conference hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America.
“You have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza,” Hurwitz complained. “This is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews.”
Hurwitz went further, even suggesting that Holocaust education may be backfiring by encouraging empathy toward “weak, skinny Palestinians” rather than “powerful Israelis.”
Clinton’s comments underscore an uncomfortable truth for Democrats: after years of encouraging young voters to rely on social media for activism and political engagement, many are now embracing narratives that directly challenge the party’s traditional foreign-policy orthodoxy.
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