[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.”
Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing isn’t genocide??
Performing genocide denial and erasing the Nakba to show why genocide has only just occurred is weird.
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?
You said the bar for genocide has only just been reached… erasing the Nakba that started in 1947.