US State Department Resignations Mount Over Support for Israel

Half a dozen mid and senior-level US officials have resigned since October over Washington's continued support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza

Another senior US State Department official has resigned over Washington’s unchecked support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, specifically citing a report released by Washington earlier this month that cleared Tel Aviv of responsibility for its war crimes.

On 28 May, Stacy Gilbert, who served as the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, informed staff of her resignation. She said she believed the report above “was wrong to conclude that Israel had not obstructed humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” according to officials who read her letter.

“On the day when the White House announced that the latest atrocity in Rafah did not cross its red line, this resignation demonstrates that the Biden Administration will do anything to avoid the truth,” said Josh Paul, who resigned in October in protest of US arms transfers to Israel after serving for 11 years as Director of the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

“This is not just a story of bureaucratic complicity or ineptitude – there are people signing off on arms transfers, people drafting arms transfer approval memos, people turning a blind eye,” Paul added, highlighting that people “who could be speaking up, people who have an awesome responsibility to do good, and a lifelong commitment to human rights – whose choice is to let the bureaucracy function as though it were business as usual.”

Gilbert became the sixth mid- or senior-level government staffer to resign in protest of US support for Israel. Her resignation came two weeks after the first Jewish American official in the US government publicly quit in protest of President Joe Biden’s support of the genocide in Gaza.

“The President has the power to call for a lasting cease-fire, to stop sending weapons to Israel, and to condition aid. The US has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable,” Lily Greenberg Call said in her resignation letter. She also chastised Biden for “making Jews the face of the American war machine.”

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