Hillary Clinton is facing a deluge of criticism after stating that young Americans’ growing support for Palestinians is influenced by “totally made-up” videos on TikTok and suggesting that American youth - including young Jews - “don’t know history and don’t understand” Israel’s war on Gaza.

Speaking on Tuesday at a summit hosted by the right-wing Israeli paper Israel Hayom in New York City, the former Democratic presidential candidate expressed her concerns that “smart, well-educated young people” in America and around the world are getting a lot of their information, including about Israel and Palestine, from social media platforms like TikTok.

The former US secretary of state described it as “serious problem for democracy”, remarking that when she attempted to have “reasonable discussions” with young people, it was challenging 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".

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    She blamed Bernie Sanders for her failure and got with a dude in the Epstein files. Why would anyone trust her judgment??

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    I think the reason they are pro-Palestine is because Israel is committing crimes against humanity, it really is that simple.

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        If you have the power to influence politics that will lead to the death of innocents, I think it’s okay. Don’t be a fucking political figure if you can’t handle the heat, Clinton. It’s like saying “omg don’t bully celebrities”. They literally put themselves in public view. Of course people will say shit. This isn’t news. What else were they expecting? Everyone is nice and friendly? No, you come to expect that in the public eye.

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    Speaking on Tuesday at a summit hosted by the right-wing Israeli paper Israel Hayom in New York City

    She’s catering to the far-right Israeli crowd under the illusion that interest group isn’t popularly considered toxic & waning in influence/political power.

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    Why would context even matter? A genocide is a genocide no matter the context. It can NEVER be justified.

    I have had similar discussions with a right-wing conspiracy theorist (friend of my dad) that also used to justify genocide. I do think and hope that our conversation has led to some positive change in his views. He used to get super triggered when I called what is happening is Palestine a genocide but today I think he accepts it. Or at least he no longer denies it completely. I have stood my ground and kept challenging whatever he has said.

    Don’t give up on the people around you! Take the discussion, challenge their views. Call out any attempt to justify genocide. You don’t need to argue with these people about facts, history or whatever. Just a call out of any attempt to justify genocide is enough. Don’t let them keep spreading their hate unchallenged. Violence and hate can never win.

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      “Tiktok” is when people use media old people can’t be arsed to learn about.

      This is all media, new and old, that they aren’t already using.

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    Go fight Donnie over Bubba’s dick and shut the fuck up. Genocide is bad, mmmkay? Can’t believe its hard to grasp.

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      It’s only hard to grasp because her and the entire politician class have been receiving donations bribes from Israel for decades.

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        Yes American politicians value money and shareholder value more than human lives. They prove it every single day and not just foreigners either they hate the US citizens just as much.

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    The former US secretary of state described it as “serious problem for democracy”, remarking that when she attempted to have “reasonable discussions” with young people, it was challenging 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".

    Look, lady, at some point the prior history doesn’t matter. The history we’re experiencing right the fuck now is a single day, a single attack, by Hamas responded to by two fucking solid years of calculated extermination and nullification of the Palestinian people.

    It doesn’t fucking matter what happened thirty god damned years ago when the average age in Gaza before Oct 7th 2023 was fucking sixteen! Guess what Hillary you fucking idiot, 16 year olds haven’t been alive long enough to have had anything to fucking do with that history!

    The fucking audacity of her ass to be talking about the “history!”

    Of all people, this bitch deserved to lose to Trump. She even used her connections to promote him in the media because she was fucksure she would end up in the general election against Jeb Bush. That’s what you get for fucking over Bernie Sanders!

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      Israel is an illegitimate state that has behaved monstrously from the beginning. So even if you read the history you’ll realize that Israel is the problem and always has been.

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      Well I mean even if you do look back historically Israel took the land from the Palestinians and displaced like 700,000 of them.

      That is why that war will never, ever end. They stole that land. It wasn’t theirs.

      I like how they leave out that part of history though. Don’t wanna talk about that or you’re antisemitic which is absolutely bullshit.

      Steal peoples land and then act all surprised when generations of them want you to die and get their land back. Seems simple enough.

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        We need to stop calling them centrists and call a spade a spade. They’re conservatives, plain and simple.

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          I don’t even like using that stupid left-right sliding scale to describe American politicians anymore. That’s not what most of these people are. They are just conduits for oligarchy to filter money from the working class to the elites and don’t hold any real personal ideology beyond that. They campaign on divisive social issues but for the majority of them that’s really where it truly ends within the context of political ideology as a working class man OR as someone who studies the philosophy of politics understands it.

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            You’ve successfully and correctly identified the problem with using the “left-right sliding scale” to describe America as being that there is no left.

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    No one likes you or your opinions, Hillary. Your time was over when you lost to Piggy. That was 11 years ago. Now just stfu.

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      This is how I know she has no shame. If I had lost to the orange kiddie fiddling rapist (in what was the easiest race to win in a long time) then I could never face the world because of the shame.
      It would be unbearable for me.
      I’d live as a hermit for the rest of my life, and on my death I’d just use the funeral as a stage to apologise for allowing the disgusting blob of a cunt to win.