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Hillary Clinton wants to gaslight young people about Israel’s genocide – but she’s too late

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fears the independence of younger generations. And in a vomit-worthy new interview, she has launched a desperate attack on them in defence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Zionist neoliberal warhawk Clinton has a track record of trying to gaslight people about the genocide (and the occupation of Palestine more generally). And she’s not letting up. Because she just spoke to billionaire–owned, genocide-denying propaganda outlet Israel Hayom. And she suggested that young people shouldn’t judge Israel’s war crimes without having a full, complex understanding of history and geography:

Nuance is absolutely important, of course. As is knowing what sources to trust and distrust. But at least half of young US adults have something Clinton seems not to have – a simple belief that mass murder, torture, and theft are wrong. Clinton’s focus, on the other hand, seems to be protecting Israel’s ability to commit such crimes. And that’s exactly what the whole pro-Israel establishment in the US has been desperately scrambling to do in the last two years as it lost control of the narrative about Israel’s genocidal crimes in Gaza.

Social media in particular has caused a real headache for pro-Israel propagandists. Indeed, prominent lobbyist Jonathan Greenblatt has argued that:

the next war will be decided based on how Israel and its allies perform online as much as offline.

And it’s younger generations – over whom traditional corporate propaganda has less control – that powerful genocide-apologists like Greenblatt and Clinton fear the most.

“It’s too late, we’ve seen the truth, we bear witness”

In January 2024, Israeli occupation forces murdered six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza. She had pleaded for help as she sat in a car “alongside the bodies of six of her family members” as they tried to flee an Israeli onslaught. And the story was all over social media. Hillary Clinton would prefer you didn’t focus on that, though.

But people like Clinton couldn’t control people’s reactions. And Rajab’s tragic ordeal became a symbol of the genocidal Israeli campaign that has killed over 20,000 children since 2023.

The Hind Rajab Foundation recently named the Israeli soldiers and commanders responsible in a filing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that “concludes that these acts amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide“. The ICC has also received a request to investigate members of the Democratic Party establishment for its role in fuelling and covering for Israel’s genocide. Because it was a US genocide too, with Washington’s support essential for it to continue, and establishment Democrats happy to give it the green light.

Clinton’s cold, patronising attempt to say ‘genocide is complex, we’ve got to see it from both sides’ will change nothing, though. Because as Macklemore said in Hind’s Hall:

…this generation here is about to cut the strings
You can ban TikTok, take us out the algorithm
But it’s too late, we’ve seen the truth, we bear witness
Seen the rubble, the buildings, the mothers and the children
And all the men that you murdered, and then we see how you spin it

So screw you, Clinton!

Free Palestine!

Featured image via the Canary

By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.