First Jewish Biden administration employee resigns over Gaza genocide
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Lily Greenberg Call, the special assistant to the chief of staff, accuses US President Joe Biden of exploiting Jewish people to justify the US policy in the Israeli war on Gaza.
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Jewish American Biden Political Appointee Lily Greenberg Call (Courtesy of Lily Greenberg Call)
An Interior Department staffer became the first Jewish political appointee to resign publicly on Wednesday in protest against US unwavering support for "Israel's" war on Gaza.
Lily Greenberg Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, accused Joe Biden of exploiting Jewish people to justify the US policy in the Israeli war on Gaza.
Call had worked on the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Kamala Harris and was a long-time activist and advocate for "Israel" in Washington and beyond before joining the government.
She is at least the fifth mid- or senior-level administration staffer to publicly resign in protest of the Biden administration’s military and diplomatic support for "Israel" in its seven-month genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
She is the second political appointee to resign for this reason, following the January resignation of an education department official of Palestinian heritage.
Resigning in Conscience
In her resignation letter, she expressed her initial excitement about joining an administration she believed shared much of her vision for the country.
"However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration," she wrote.
Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter: pic.twitter.com/oqzit7leVD
— Lily Greenberg Call (@LGreenbergCall) May 15, 2024
Huh—Twitter has already suspended the account of Lily Greenberg Call (@LGreenbergCall), the Jewish Biden appointee who just resigned in protest of US support for Israel's war on Gaza.
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) May 15, 2024
The suspension claims a user reported her "violating our rules against evading suspension." https://t.co/2s1rqspleP pic.twitter.com/LipRaxFOWj
In an interview for AP, Call referenced Biden's remarks, including his statement at a White House Hanukkah event where he said, "Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe" and at an event at Washington’s Holocaust Memorial last week where he stated that what happened on October 7 was motivated by an "ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people."
"He is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong," she stressed.
She also highlighted that her ancestors had been victims of "state-sponsored violence."
"I think the president has to know that there are people in his administration who think this is disastrous," Call remarked on the war overall and the US. "Not just for Palestinians, for Israelis, for Jews, for Americans, for his election prospects."
Read more: 'Not in our name': The Jewish movement for Palestine
