[about f—ing time!]
Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT
“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”
Fuck him , after all this time this is how he starts his op-ed :
“Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas”
he is complicit in genocide
Trying to pass off on duty IDF soldiers as innocent civilians is absolutely disgusting.
Also lumping in deaths from Israeli bombs in that figure (re: Hannibal directive)
Wow Bernie Sanders claims all 373 active duty IDF Nazis killed were innocent people.
Fuck Bernie Sanders.
@geneva_convenience @Fancy_Gecko Hi - I wasn’t watching the #Genocide today, just managing crawls for my search engine.
About fucking time, too. It was a running joke that he had an autocorrect function in his brain that changed every instance of “Israel” to “Netanyahu” and deleted every mention of the word genocide.
Good on him for finally showing the courage to speak directly and honestly about the worst genocide since the most famous one, though.
Now if only he could realize that a two state solution is a nonstarter. Israel has shown that they don’t exempt the territories of foreign nations any more than the occupied Palestinian territories.
The only way to achieve anything resembling lasting peace is to dismantle the Israeli apartheid regime and replace it with an ACTUALLY democratic nation that doesn’t inherently discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, and ancestry.
Now if only he could realize that a two state solution is a nonstarter.
i hope you like waiting because that’s all you’re going to get from him.
I know.
I’ve long since given up on him ever getting there, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t express that it would be better if he did 🤷
Good on him for finally showing the courage to speak directly and honestly about the worst genocide since the most famous one, though.
Sadly he didn’t. He is tailing the movement right now but he is trying to get in front of it to be able to steer it to more peaceful ways. He even starts the speech condemning Hamas and asserting “Israel’s [sic] right to defend itself”. I think it’s pretty obvious what he is trying to do and why no one should believe that he cares one bit for the palestinians.
Also gaza isn’t even the worst genocide going on right now, the same tactics are used in South Sudan on an even larger scale.
the worst genocide since the most famous one
… Really? Worse than Rwanda? Cambodia? It’s enough that it’s very very bad, you don’t have to go flaunting your historical ignorance.
Yes, worse than both of those.
I’m not at all ignorant about either, but you might be ignorant of the sheer scale and longevity of the one Israel has been continually committing since 1948.
Well I’ve no idea what metric you’re using, but it’s certainly not number of deaths. Or proportion of the targeted group that died. Or the rate at which it occurred.
I guess the metric here is the duration? Yes, Israel has been committing atrocities again Palestinians for a long time - casual murder of civilians, for sure - but said atrocities have only recently graduated to fit the definition of genocide. There’s a reason people weren’t making those claims until the last couple of years. So even by that single metric it’s not the worst.
There’s a reason people weren’t making those claims until the last couple of years
Plenty of people correctly said it was a genocide since 1948, so I’m not sure what you mean here.
Some people were using the word genocide in a technically incorrect sense when referring to forced displacement and war crimes. Obviously atrocities have been committed at a varying rate for a long time, but if we’re playing that game, Russia’s varying rates of crimes against the people of Ukraine go back centuries. The bar for genocide however is, quite rightly, set very high. That bar was not met until recently.
technically incorrect sense when referring to forced displacement
Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing isn’t genocide??
That bar was not met until recently.
Performing genocide denial and erasing the Nakba to show why genocide has only just occurred is weird.
technically incorrect sense when referring to forced displacement
Hang on, genocide denial? Kindly fuck off with that shit, my point was ‘there have been genocides since ww2 that have resulted in orders of magnitudes more deaths, therefore performatively declaring the situation with Palestine to be the worst is bullshit’. Who’s denying what here exactly?
said atrocities have only recently graduated to fit the definition of genocide
No, they have only recently worsened enough and become publicly verifiable enough that people are admitting what’s been true for a century.
There’s a reason people weren’t making those claims until the last couple of years
And that reason is that the media and governments of all western nations were implicitly trusting the Hasbara lies and gaslighting most other people to do so too.
That the lies only recently stopped working doesn’t mean that they only recently started being lies.
Why is the truth so difficult to say?
What Israel is doing to Palestinians is genocide.
Because Bernie is a liberal Zionists who thinks kibbutzs are the pinnacle of “civilization”- Social fascism as it was in the yesteryears.
It’s good that he calls it what it is. Starting with Okt. 7 is ridiculous, but I take it.
@pete_link About damn time! Even worse is that it is only him - thus far.
