The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a forceful condemnation of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent comments regarding Israel’s military operations in Gaza, characterizing her statements as “outright genocide denial.” The rebuke came in response to Clinton’s appearance at the Israel Hayom Summit on December 2nd, where she attributed growing American criticism of Israel to poor public relations and social media manipulation rather than substantive concerns about Israel’s conduct.
During her summit address, Clinton asserted that Israel possesses “the worst PR of any group,” specifically singling out TikTok for disseminating what she termed “pure propaganda” regarding Israeli military actions in Gaza. She further characterized young Americans’ positions as a “serious problem for democracy,” claiming they lacked historical context and were being influenced by one-sided narratives.
The genocide prevention organization fundamentally rejected this analysis, countering that Americans are responding to overwhelming evidence emerging from Gaza rather than falling prey to misinformation. The institute emphasized that years of documentation from Palestinian journalists, ordinary Gazans, and even IDF soldiers themselves have created an incontrovertible record that cannot be dismissed as mere propaganda.
According to the institute’s statement, “There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide.”
The organization noted with particular concern that Clinton’s remarks focused exclusively on narrative management while completely avoiding engagement with the substantive allegations of genocidal violence. They observed that her primary concern appeared to be the increased visibility of Israel’s actions through real-time documentation rather than the actions themselves.
The statement also highlighted the irony of Clinton’s criticism of TikTok, given the platform’s documented history of censoring pro-Palestinian content and its July appointment of a former IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech policy.
The Lemkin Institute, founded in 2017 by renowned genocide scholars Elisa von Joeden-Forgey and Irene Victoria Massimino, takes its name from Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who coined the term “genocide.” The organization has joined numerous international bodies, United Nations experts, and human rights organizations in characterizing Israel’s campaign in Gaza as genocidal, with Palestinian casualties now exceeding 71,000 according to the report.