‘Extraordinary’: Biden administration staffers’ growing dissent against Gaza policy
by Jonathan Guyer from US news | The Guardian on (#6HMTR)
An education department official resigned this week, and 17 staffers sent an anonymous letter calling for a ceasefire
Dissent inside the Biden administration over the president's Gaza policy is growing, with a public resignation this week of a Department of Education official, and a letter signed by more than a dozen Biden campaign staffers calling for a ceasefire and the conditioning of aid to Israel.
It's pretty extraordinary levels of dissent," said Josh Paul, a career official working on arms sales at the state department who resigned in protest in October, of the mounting signs of discontent. I am hearing in recent weeks from people who are thinking more seriously about resigning."
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