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Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[–] Piperpiper1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gonna spell it out nice and slow for you: the nakba was a genocide.

Calling it a "displacement" when it lead to the total ethnic removal of a group of people is actually trying to mislabel what everyone (except you) understands happened.

Genocides include: killing, rape, and displacement. All of which happened in the nakba. Genocide is when you want to remove people from a land by means of displacement and murder based entirely on the identity of the victims.

People get displaced due to wars and natural disasters; we don't call those genocides because there is no fucking desire to destroy/remove an entire group of people based on their identity.

Genocide= people are being killed and removed because of their race/religion/ethnicity

I cannot explain it any simpler, if you still don't understand then you're either stupid, rotten, or some combination of the two.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

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