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[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.”

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

Fuck him , after all this time this is how he starts his op-ed :

"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"

he is complicit in genocide

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

History began on October 7th. Hamas was mean to Israel for no reason. They're all just psychotic monsters who need to be wiped off the face of the earth

But the Israelis went a little too far. So I'm writing them a letter asking someone to apologize.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Trying to pass off on duty IDF soldiers as innocent civilians is absolutely disgusting.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Also lumping in deaths from Israeli bombs in that figure (re: Hannibal directive)

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Wow Bernie Sanders claims all 373 active duty IDF Nazis killed were innocent people.

Fuck Bernie Sanders.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

@geneva_convenience @Fancy_Gecko Hi - I wasn't watching the #Genocide today, just managing crawls for my search engine.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Why is the truth so difficult to say?

What Israel is doing to Palestinians is genocide.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Killing any and all Muslims has been fully justified since 9/11. All 1.3 billion of them are enemy combatants.

And no, before you ask, this doesn't apply in reverse to white Western Christians. It's actually racist of you to suggest it would.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Because Bernie is a liberal Zionists who thinks kibbutzs are the pinnacle of “civilization”- Social fascism as it was in the yesteryears.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

About fucking time, too. It was a running joke that he had an autocorrect function in his brain that changed every instance of "Israel" to "Netanyahu" and deleted every mention of the word genocide.

Good on him for finally showing the courage to speak directly and honestly about the worst genocide since the most famous one, though.

Now if only he could realize that a two state solution is a nonstarter. Israel has shown that they don't exempt the territories of foreign nations any more than the occupied Palestinian territories.

The only way to achieve anything resembling lasting peace is to dismantle the Israeli apartheid regime and replace it with an ACTUALLY democratic nation that doesn't inherently discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, and ancestry.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Now if only he could realize that a two state solution is a nonstarter.

i hope you like waiting because that's all you're going to get from him.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I know.

I've long since given up on him ever getting there, but that doesn't mean that I can't express that it would be better if he did 🤷

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Good on him for finally showing the courage to speak directly and honestly about the worst genocide since the most famous one, though.

Sadly he didn't. He is tailing the movement right now but he is trying to get in front of it to be able to steer it to more peaceful ways. He even starts the speech condemning Hamas and asserting "Israel's [sic] right to defend itself". I think it's pretty obvious what he is trying to do and why no one should believe that he cares one bit for the palestinians.

Also gaza isn't even the worst genocide going on right now, the same tactics are used in South Sudan on an even larger scale.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

It's good that he calls it what it is. Starting with Okt. 7 is ridiculous, but I take it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

@pete_link About damn time! Even worse is that it is only him - thus far.

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