Short answer: Yes. As of August 2026, Hillary Clinton remains a consistent supporter of Israel's security and a longtime, vocal opponent of the BDS boycott movement, a position she has held from her years as a U.S. senator and Secretary of State through her most recent public appearances.
What Hillary Clinton has actually said and done
- July 31, 2010: Clinton's daughter Chelsea married Marc Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, in an interfaith ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York. The ultra-private ceremony, covered by CBS News, was conducted by both a rabbi and a minister and, per contemporaneous Jewish-press coverage, included a chuppah, a tallit for the groom, and the traditional Seven Blessings.
- March 21, 2016: Addressing the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., Clinton called the BDS movement "alarming," accused it of "bullying" Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus, and told the audience, "we have to be united in fighting back against BDS," as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- February 16, 2024: By then a Columbia University professor, Clinton spoke at the Munich Security Conference and condemned rising antisemitism on U.S. college campuses, saying many young people are "woefully uninformed" about antisemitism and the Holocaust, per Jewish Insider.
- October 10, 2025: Two days after the Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release agreement was signed, Clinton joined former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on CBS News to commend President Trump and Arab leaders for the 20-point plan, while cautioning that "it's going to take a lot of work" to hold, according to CBS News.
- December 2, 2025: Speaking at the Israel Hayom summit in New York, Clinton said Israel "has the worst PR" of any group, argued that young Americans are getting skewed information about the war from TikTok, and framed the problem as generational rather than partisan, as covered by Israel Hayom and confirmed by Jewish Insider.
- December 2, 2025: Those same summit remarks drew public criticism from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, an advocacy group that argued Clinton's comments minimized Palestinian civilian harm in Gaza, a pushback also noted by Middle East Eye, alongside the original Lemkin Institute statement.
The fuller picture: not Jewish, but a family tie, and a nuanced record
Hillary Clinton is not Jewish. Her own ancestry is Welsh, English, Scottish, and French, and she was raised Methodist. The closest family connection to Judaism runs through marriage: her daughter Chelsea's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish, and their 2010 wedding wove Jewish ritual elements into the ceremony alongside a Christian one.
Her policy record on Israel is longer and, on the whole, favorable. As a senator and later as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, she consistently backed close U.S.-Israel security cooperation. At the same time, she pressed, at times pointedly, for a two-state solution and criticized settlement expansion under the Netanyahu government, a stance that put her at odds with some Israeli officials during her State Department years. She has never supported or joined any boycott of Israel. On the contrary, she has repeatedly and explicitly denounced the BDS movement, most notably in her 2016 AIPAC address, where she framed BDS activism against Israel as bordering on antisemitic harassment of Jewish students.
In more recent years she has continued showing up at pro-Israel and Jewish-community forums, from the Munich Security Conference to the Israel Hayom summit, consistently arguing that Israel is losing a public-relations battle among young Americans on platforms like TikTok, and that this is feeding campus antisemitism. Those December 2025 remarks were praised in pro-Israel outlets but criticized by at least one genocide-prevention advocacy group as minimizing Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza, a reminder that her pro-Israel framing draws pushback from some pro-Palestinian voices even as its substance stays firmly supportive of Israel. She and Condoleezza Rice also welcomed the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release framework brokered under the Trump administration.
The bottom line
Hillary Clinton is alive and remains a clear, consistent supporter of Israel's security and a longtime opponent of the BDS boycott movement, while also having criticized specific Israeli policies, particularly settlement expansion, and continuing to call for a two-state solution. She is not Jewish herself, though her daughter is married into a Jewish family.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
