Vermont senator had taken flak for avoiding term as UN panel says Israel’s conduct meets criteria for genocide

[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.”

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    112·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • silasmariner@programming.dev
      213·
      8 days ago

      Ok. Wow. I’m in the wrong channel for this. I apologise. This was not the place for the conversation. Removed.

      • craftymansamcf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        10 days ago

        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.

        • silasmariner@programming.dev
          210·
          8 days ago

          Ditto.

          I don’t disagree with the points I made, but they were made insensitively in an inappropriate space, and I am removing them

          • craftymansamcf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            10 days ago

            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

              • craftymansamcf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                10 days ago

                You said the bar for genocide has only just been reached in 2025… erasing the Nakba that started in 1947.

                  • craftymansamcf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    5·
                    8 days ago

                    Twat

                    Being rude AND denying a genocide won’t get you anywhere, pick a struggle.

                    your advice on whether there are other outrageous crimes against humanity being committed

                    It is not my advice and I would never speak on behalf of the Palestinians, so maybe get that clear.

                  • Piperpiper1@lemmy.ml
                    51·
                    8 days ago

                    The nakba was a genocide, dumbass. Don’t blame others for your ignorance; you chose to be loud and wrong; then people smarter than you called that out.

                    Instead of calling people names you should do some research on the genocide and colonization of Palestinians/Palestine.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        8·
        10 days ago

        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.