cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36304935
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.”
Once again proving he’s one of the few with brass balls left in office.
There are many issues he will not touch: not least ballot counting problems. And he hesitates to suggest real solutions to many issues other than vote blue no matter who.
Basically he has made his career being a centralist’s idea of a left wing politician.