Hillary Clinton just can’t stop herself. After the backlash against her condescending comments on young Americans, particularly young Jews, being horrified and opposed to the US-backed genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza, she doubled down on her position at a “security forum” in Doha, Qatar this week.

Clinton was widely criticized for saying young people get all their news from TikTok and “don’t know the history” of the Middle East at a conference held by billionaire Trump donor, Miriam Adelson. In the interview in Doha, she appeared visibly defensive with the questioning. But instead of displaying even a modicum of self-introspection, she used the same tired tactics used by other liberal genocide apologists: deflection.

Clinton bemoaned the “suffering in Gaza,” but never named the cause of that suffering, essentially reducing this human made atrocity as some kind of natural disaster. She also played the game of whataboutism by saying she was angry about the suffering all around the world, sidelining the role the US played as the engine of this particular genocide.

Instead, Clinton celebrated the so-called “ceasefire” which Israel has violated nearly every day, killing well over 300 hundred Palestinian civilians, including scores of children. And she praised Trump’s horrendous “peace plan” which sees Gaza as a real estate bonanza. And where Palestinians are essentially pushed out or into an even smaller concentration camp governed primarily by Israel with US oversight and funding.

Clinton even said the US must play a “larger role.” It is hard to see how she would expand the role of a nation which has supported and funded this genocide in the first place. And she resurrected the complete farce of a “two state solution,” ignoring the fact that her friend Netanyahu declared that there will never be a Palestinian state.

Most honest analysts of this situation have understood for a long time that the two state idea is long dead. If implemented today, it would merely be a clone of the current conditions Israel has constructed: a cluster of Bantustans surrounded by violent settlers and controlled by Israel, where Palestinians have absolutely no agency over their lives in their ancestral homeland.

Why is focusing on what Hillary Clinton has said so important? Because her stance is typical of liberal Zionism, with the common refrain that it is “too complicated” for ordinary people to understand. It is a belittling and cynical attitude that has the ultimate goal of derailment of dissent and distraction from the pernicious role the US has played in defending Israeli apartheid and providing the weapons and diplomatic cover for its genocidal project.

Clinton is essentially calling young Americans, including young Jews, antisemitic and stupid for opposing the mass murder of over 100,000 people and the complete destruction of Gazan society. She has shown zero interest in discussing the conclusions of genocide scholars, many of whom are Jewish and Israeli, who have condemned Israel’s actions as genocidal. She has zero interest in addressing the points made by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. She has no curiosity about the dozens of human rights organizations, including within Israel, who have called what Israel is doing a genocide.

Clinton has only one script on this issue. And it is one that she will never alter. But after 2+ years of witnessing Israel carry out the worst crime against humanity with the full support of the United States and other Western nations, it is one that no longer holds any weight.

Kenn Orfanos, December 2025