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.”

  • craftymansamcf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month 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·
      29 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·
        1 month 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