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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36304935

[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.”

  • iceagec0mmie@lemmy.org
    1112·
    12 hours ago

    It Is Genocide

    September 17, 2025

    Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages.

    Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas.

    — Bernie Sanders

    he’s still a zionist.

    • PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world
      71·
      6 hours ago

      the next three sentences:

      But, over the last two years, Israel has not simply defended itself against Hamas. Instead, it has waged an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people. Many legal experts have now concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

      Way to clip some shit out of context. you really did something there

      • iceagec0mmie@lemmy.org
        23·
        2 hours ago

        lmfao this doesn’t make it any better idiot. he’s claiming an indigenous resistance group started this war which is HISTORICALLY wrong and not factual whatsoever. the indigenous people who lived in a fucking concentration camp tried liberating themselves and he’s saying THEY started it.

        get your kkkracker ass out of my comments and read a book.

      • iceagec0mmie@lemmy.org
        12·
        2 hours ago

        sounds like you need to read a book since you cannot see the zionism within that kkkracker.