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On the recordNovember 19, 2023
It's absolutely essential that we call it for what it is, a genocide, and also say that it doesn't start on October 7th. It started in 1948 with the creation of the settler colonial state of Israel.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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A student demands recognition of the situation in Gaza as genocide, linking it to historical events.

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