Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
Many members of Congress you consider insufficiency anti-genocide were elected in 2024. Most of them, in fact. Even our current president won on a pro-genocide platform, along with all the other stuff he’s doing now that still isn’t enough for you to admit that the lesser of two evils is worth voting for. I’m glad the Rupublicans’ policies haven’t touched you or your loved ones personally yet, but consider that they may in the future.