Reporter Confronts Jean-Pierre About Protest Letter From Staffers and Resignation Over Biden’s Stance on Israel

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked on Thursday for the administration’s reaction to a recent protest letter from anonymous Biden campaign staff and a resignation over the president’s staunch support for Israel.

“What’s the White House’s reaction to members of President Biden’s administration protesting or in the case of somebody at the Department of Education resigning in protest against the president’s policies on Israel?” asked a White House reporter.

“Well, we’ve spoken to this before, and what we’ll say is that people have the right to to voice their opinion,” Jean-Pierre replied, adding:

We understand that these are times where, you know, people have, it’s an emotional time. And we understand that as it relates to, I think, the Department of Education, I would I know they put out a statement, so I would refer you to the Department of Education. But that is something that we get.

Like people have opinions, they have thoughts. These are incredibly, you know, personal times for people. But I just I’m not going to say much more on on each each resignation or each the comments that people may have. I will just add on that particular one. I would refer you to Department of Education.

Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash resigned this week over Biden’s support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

“As a Palestinian-American — in fact, the only Palestinian-American political appointee at the Department of Education — I bring a critical and underrepresented perspective to the ongoing work on equity and justice,” said Habash in a resignation letter he also gave to multiple media outlets.

Seventeen current Biden campaign staffers published an anonymous letter this week also slamming the president on the issue. “As your staff, we believe it is both a moral and electoral imperative for you to publicly call for a cessation of violence. Complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children, simply cannot be justified,” the staffers wrote.

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