cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36304935
[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.”
“The very term genocide is a reminder of what can happen if we fail,” Sanders wrote. “That word emerged from the Holocaust – the murder of 6 million Jews – one of the darkest chapters in human history. Make no mistake. If there is no accountability for Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals, other demagogues will do the same.”
And from a Jewish senator, nonetheless.
He’s got some morals
HeS aNtIsEmItIc!!!
Now is more important than ever for Jews to condemn the Zionist movement.
It’s insane how a group of religious extremists have coopted a race of people.
this is a great relief.now this has been established, finally hamas will make peace with israel and it will all be over
Took him long enough. He’s still a Zionist.
Better late than never I guess?
Um, yes? Can we just all enjoy a small crumb of something steering toward the right direction?
Hard to enjoy any small gesture when on the same day we’ve lost our first amendment rights to fascism and spineless complicit media institutions.
You’ve only lost them if you stop using them.
It Is Genocide
September 17, 2025
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.
— Bernie Sanders
he’s still a zionist.
the next three sentences:
But, over the last two years, Israel has not simply defended itself against Hamas. Instead, it has waged an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people. Many legal experts have now concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Way to clip some shit out of context. you really did something there
lmfao this doesn’t make it any better idiot. he’s claiming an indigenous resistance group started this war which is HISTORICALLY wrong and not factual whatsoever. the indigenous people who lived in a fucking concentration camp tried liberating themselves and he’s saying THEY started it.
get your kkkracker ass out of my comments and read a book.
yeah, exactly what i expect from a racist fucking kkkracker.
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coward.
Define zionist since you like to use the word.
sounds like you need to read a book since you cannot see the zionism within that kkkracker.
@salty_chief@lemmy.world I expect you to hand out flowers now, or fuck off.
