[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.”
About fucking time, too. It was a running joke that he had an autocorrect function in his brain that changed every instance of “Israel” to “Netanyahu” and deleted every mention of the word genocide.
Good on him for finally showing the courage to speak directly and honestly about the worst genocide since the most famous one, though.
Now if only he could realize that a two state solution is a nonstarter. Israel has shown that they don’t exempt the territories of foreign nations any more than the occupied Palestinian territories.
The only way to achieve anything resembling lasting peace is to dismantle the Israeli apartheid regime and replace it with an ACTUALLY democratic nation that doesn’t inherently discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, and ancestry.
… 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.