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.”

  • silasmariner@programming.dev
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    16 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·
      18 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·
        16 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·
          18 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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      18 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.