“My colleagues can no longer deny that this is genocide,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). “We must follow our own U.S. laws. We need an Arms Embargo now.”
On Thursday, Amnesty released a sprawling report determining that Israel’s assault of Gaza amounts to genocide, citing Israel’s relentless attacks, blocking of humanitarian aid, targeting of health and other basic infrastructure, forced displacement of 90 percent of Gaza’s population, and more.
Amnesty is the first major international humanitarian organization to outright label Israel’s actions as a genocide. The group was also one of the first major human rights organizations to label Israel’s violent occupation and oppression of Palestine as apartheid, back in 2022.
The human rights group, one of the largest in the world, specifically called out the U.S. as a major collaborator in the genocide due to the Biden administration’s policy of sending Israel weapons with zero red lines. Just last week, despite Israel’s clear, ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, reports emerged of the Biden administration advancing yet another sale of weapons to Israel worth $680 million.
They CAN and will ignore it
They can make it illegal to acknowledge it, even. Label any recognition a form of antisemitism. Accuse any reporter or activist of siding with The Terrorists.
Easy to forget that Tlaib has already been censured for saying exactly this a year ago.
Wrong. They will assist while denying that’s it’s happening.
Too many Democratic politicians are deciding to go with, “What are you going to do? Vote for a Republican?”
This is incredibly short-sighted and ethically wrong, but it seems we have reached that point. Difficult time to be a regular person in the US.
The responsiveness of our government continues to decay, and the suffering of the average person continues to increase.
It is only a matter of time until some hero pulls a Brian Thompson on one of our genocidal democratically elected leaders.
I didnt see shit
watch them.
Centrists & Conservatives: Hold my beer.
… eh, fuck it, AIPAC will just buy me a new one.
Centrists are very clear on this one.
Or do you mean US centrists which are like everyone else’s moderate-right?
Here is the link to the Amnesty Report:
some rare lemmy Ws happening in this thread, nice one ❤️
Bankrupt Israel!
How do you imagine that working exactly?
