I can no longer be part of Biden’s administration to commit genocide in Gaza – Jewish in Biden Gov

A Jewish American Biden political appointee resigned from her post at the Interior Department on Wednesday, saying she could no longer work for the administration because of President Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, cited her Jewish upbringing and ties to Israel in her resignation letter. She wrote that her family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and came to the United States, noting that they changed their names at Ellis Island and that her grandparents could not go to college.

“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,” Greenberg Call wrote. Israel strongly denies that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.

Reflecting on her position as an appointee in a presidential administration, she added: “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 is the first known Jewish appointee to publicly resign over Biden’s support of Israel. Earlier this week, a U.S. Army officer working at the Defense Intelligence Agency resigned from the military, writing in an open letter that he felt “incredible shame and guilt” knowing that his work contributed to Palestinian suffering and death. A political appointee from the Education Department resigned in January, and a career State Department employee who worked on arms transfers to foreign powers resigned in October.

In an interview, Greenberg Call said that resigning was a challenging decision for her because of the community she grew up in, but that the Jewish values she was brought up with led her to this decision.

My Jewish identity is the most important part of who I am, and it is all of the values that I was raised with … and all of my Jewish education, 20 years of it, that led me to this decision, and it’s how I know this is right,” Greenberg Call said. “What Israel is doing to people in Gaza and to Palestinians across the land is incredibly un-Jewish to me and such a disgrace to our ancestors.”

The United States and Israel strongly deny that Israel’s military assault in Gaza, which has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly the entire population of roughly 2 million, amounts to genocide. They say that Israel has a right to defend itself after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, in which militants killed about 1,200 people, many of them civilians, and took about 250 hostages, and that Hamas embeds itself among civilians in a conscious effort to drive up the death toll.

Source Washington Post