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May 16, 2024

"Biden Is Making Jews the Face of the War Machine": First Jewish Biden Appointee Resigns over Gaza
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Another member of the Biden administration has resigned to protest the
president's policies on Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call has become the first
known Jewish political appointee to resign over the war. She had been
working as special assistant to the chief of staff at the Interior
Department. In her resignation letter, she wrote, "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 went on to write, "Biden is making Jews the face of the
American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong."

Greenberg Call's views on Israel have shifted over the years. In 2019,
as a college student at the University of California at Berkeley, she
served as president of Bears for Israel, which is affiliated with AIPAC,
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.