[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.”
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