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
    1·
    12 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
      13·
      11 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
        1·
        12 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
          21·
          11 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
            1·
            12 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

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 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.