Gaza (QNN)- The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, named after Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, called recent statements by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton genocide denial. The statement came after Clinton’s remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on December 2.
The institute said Clinton dismissed the global criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and blamed the shift on “optics” and “the narrative.” It said she ignored two years of documented killings and destruction in Gaza and chose instead to attack social media platforms, especially TikTok.
Clinton told the summit that Israel’s declining support among US voters is a generational divide, not a partisan one. She said Israel has “the worst PR of any group” and argued that young Americans consume “pure propaganda” on TikTok.
The Lemkin Institute rejected this claim. It said young Americans are responding to firsthand videos from Palestinian journalists, civilians in Gaza, Israeli soldiers, and Israelis themselves. The institute said these videos show evidence of genocide, and no government or organization has offered a credible refutation.
“Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible,” the institute said. “They simply reject genocide.”
The institute said Clinton showed no concern for what genocidal violence against Palestinians. It said she focused only on Israel’s image and the fact that the crimes are now visible in real time. The group argued that TikTok is not the reason young Americans believe Israel is committing genocide. Many who do not use TikTok hold the same view.
The institute noted that major human rights organizations, the United Nations, and many scholars and legal bodies have described Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide. It urged Clinton to read the reports.
The group also said it is ironic to blame TikTok. It pointed out that the platform has faced repeated accusations of censoring pro-Palestinian content. In July, TikTok appointed a former Israeli army instructor as its new hate-speech manager, which the institute said undermines any claim that the platform favors Palestinian voices.
The Lemkin Institute said what troubles Clinton is the loss of top-down narrative control. It said younger generations now access raw videos and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging.
“When Clinton calls this a problem for democracy,” the group wrote, “it sounds more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political agenda.”
The institute said that when leaders do not have the truth on their side, they fall back on public relations strategies. It added that Israel cannot solve its image problem through PR. The only real solution, it said, is to end the genocide, hold perpetrators accountable.
The institute said young Americans reject genocide denial, whether it comes from Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Clinton herself. It said many students risk their education and careers to expose crimes in Gaza.
The Lemkin Institute said it stands with students and young people around the world who speak “truth to power” and fight genocide in Palestine and elsewhere.
The statement concluded that Clinton’s comments are “a shameful example of the lengths to which people complicit in genocide will go to deny its existence.”
