On Wednesday, Lily Greenberg Call, Special Assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, announced her resignation from the position in a letter condemning the administration of President Joe Biden for using Jews to justify aggressive US foreign policy and to ensure complicity in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Describing her initial excitement in joining the Biden administration due to its perceived shared vision for the US, Greenberg Call stated that “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 said that, while people in her own Jewish community had lost loved ones in Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israeli-held territory, she stressed that “the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine and ethnic cleansing.”