Hillary Clinton settles accounts with the Tiktok generation

She first became famous as First Lady alongside US President Bill Clinton, then she was US Secretary of State and almost President. Now Hillary Clinton (78) gives lectures and seminars. And in connection with the Gaza conflict, she takes a hard line with anti-Israel American students who have no idea about the past, Israel and the Middle East because they only get their knowledge from the social media platform Tik-tok.

Translation and transcript of the video:

Smart, well-educated young people from our own country, from all over the world. Where did they get their information from? They got their information from social media, especially TikTok. That’s where they learned what happened on October 7, what happened in the days, weeks and months that followed. This is a serious problem. It’s a serious problem for democracy, whether it’s in Israel or the United States, and it’s a serious problem for our young people. And it was, frankly, shocking to me how little the students that we encountered, not just in this course that we teach, which is a very large course on international relations and crisis decision making, but students in general, and that’s why I mentioned the social media part, because if you would try to talk to them, engage in any kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they didn’t know the history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not only one-sided, it was pure propaganda. When you think about how to tell Israel’s story, and it’s important, it’s not just about looking internally, it’s about looking externally, and especially looking at young people, because it’s not just the usual suspects, it’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the story and don’t understand it. I talked to Condi Rice, she said in an interview I did after the 20-point plan, she and I were on CBS, and she said when people shouted, “From the river to the sea,” she would ask the students, what river, what sea – they didn’t know. I had the same experience. A lot of the challenge is with younger people. More than 50% of young people in America get their news from social media. Think about it. They see short videos, some of them totally made up, some of them don’t represent at all what they claim to show, and that’s how they get their information.