Biden Staffer Resigns Over ‘Continued Support for Israel’s Genocide’ in Gaza: ‘Blood of Innocent People on His Hands’

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Biden administration political appointee Lily Greenberg Call became the first Jewish staffer to resign from her position on Wednesday in protest of President Joe Biden’s “continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”

In her letter of resignation addressed to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Greenberg Call declared, “I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”

She continued:

I am an American Jew. My family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and found refuge in America. They changed their names at Ellis Island and worked as farmers, peddlers, and salespeople. My grandparents could not go to college. Two generations later, I have the honor of working as an appointee for the President of the United States. The weight of this position is not lost on me. This is the story of many people in my community: a story of survival, upward mobility, and fulfillment of the American Dream. And yet, I have asked myself many times over the last eight months: what is the point of having power if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?

Greenberg Call – who served as special assistant to the Interior Department’s chief of staff prior to her resignation – added that while she was “terrified by rising antisemitism around the world,” and by Hamas’ actions on October 7, 2023, she was “certain that the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine, and ethnic cleansing.”

Noting that Israel had killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 children, since Hamas’ attack, she argued:

The President has the power to call for a lasting ceasefire, to stop sending weapons to Israel, and to condition aid. The United States has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable; quite the opposite, we have enabled and legitimized Israel’s actions with vetoes of the UN resolutions designed to hold Israel accountable. President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands.

“I reject the premise that one people’s salvation must come at another’s destruction,” Greenberg Call concluded in her letter. “I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen – and this cannot be done from within the Biden Administration.”

On social media, Wednesday, Greenberg Call pointed out that she was the “first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza.”

Several other Biden administration staffers have also resigned in protest over Biden’s continued support for Israel since October 7.

In January, a group of 17 anonymous Biden administration staffers accused Biden of “complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children.”

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