[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.”
Mate. The point I’m here to make is : calling what’s happening in Palestine the worst genocide since the Holocaust of the Jewish people is not a strictly accurate claim by most metric I would expect to measure it by (total death count or proportion of population being the two most obvious ones, hence Cambodia because that was fuckinc rough). Will it eventually achieve that notorious level of savagery? I hope not. I hope the cunts are shamed into behaving. But it behoovs you you remember that there are many many terrible things going on and which have already gone on, and some sweeping statements with no basis in anything quantitative can look very much like erasure.
Of course you’re already know this because you’re super duper smart and awesome and just such a font of moral wisdom, there are never any grey spaces with you, it’s amazing the clarity that comes to me in those brief moments where you’re here to help guide me