[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.”
… 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.
Ok. Wow. I’m in the wrong channel for this. I apologise. This was not the place for the conversation. Removed.
Plenty of people correctly said it was a genocide since 1948, so I’m not sure what you mean here.
Ditto.
I don’t disagree with the points I made, but they were made insensitively in an inappropriate space, and I am removing them
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.
Again, best to remove this
You said the bar for genocide has only just been reached in 2025… erasing the Nakba that started in 1947.
Removed by mod
No, they have only recently worsened enough and become publicly verifiable enough that people are admitting what’s been true for a century.
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.
A century? What was going on in 1926 ?
We’re looking at hundreds of thousands of casualties, virtually the entire population of the Gaza strip, dead within the next two years.
That said, the civil war in Sudan is potentially worse by raw numbers, as they’ve got a large population.
In terms of percentages, it’s a race to the bottom between these two modern day genocides.
Because after all, if someone else can just come along and remove something I said, surely I should be permitted the same capability