[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.”

  • craftymansamcf@lemmy.world
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    13 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.

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      12 days ago

      Absolutely love that the part of my post that it presumably got deleted for is visible in your comment about it. That says something, doesn’t it?

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        12 days ago

        Yes, that we were correct you were rude with that comment. Quoting the part where you were rude is not necessarily a breach of the rules.

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      13 days ago

      Accepting that something is a genocide and stressing that genocide is bad but also other genocides exist doesn’t sound like denial to me but you do you