Until last week, US President Joe Biden was my boss. He used the idea of Jewish safety as a weapon to justify atrocities in Gaza. I could no longer stand idly by, so I resigned from my position at the US Department of the Interior. In doing so, she became the first Jewish politically appointed official in the administration to publicly resign – in protest and grief – over Biden’s support for the genocide in Gaza, where more than 35,000 Palestinians were killed.
This is how the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff in the US Department of the Interior began her article in the British newspaper “The Guardian” in which she said that the decision to resign was very difficult, but it was necessary – and it was more urgent – since the President of the United States had constantly corrupted the idea of Jewish safety, and had armed her community, And using him as a shield to avoid accountability for his role in these atrocities.
says the young Jewish woman Lily Greenberg She worked hard to get this administration elected, first as a campaign organizer Kamala Harris Vice President during the 2019 Democratic primaries, and then in the general election in Arizona State “But now, as I watch US complicity in the ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, I am only reminded that in times of extreme terror, many with great power choose to do nothing,” she added.
Like many Jewish Americans, she said she is descended from those who fled Europe and survived violent persecution.
She added, “My pregnant grandmother survived the massacres by hiding in the belly of a horse-drawn carriage, then crossing the ocean alone, searching for safety in a new land.”
Bombing provided by America
She said that in the several months that followed October 7, she watched Palestinians – children, the elderly, journalists and others – struggle to survive the indiscriminate bombing that plagued their homes – bombing provided by the United States.
Greenberg asserted that she is certain that Jews are not better protected by a war effort, sanctioned and launched by the United States in the name of their safety, that promotes the genocide of an entire people collectively framed as “our enemy,” and that making Jews the face of a relentless campaign of genocide It exposes them to more danger.
She said that Palestinian and Jewish integrity are not incompatible, but, in fact, they are deeply intertwined. President Biden does not acknowledge this. He rejects the call for a permanent ceasefire, ending the blank check presented to Israel, securing the diplomatic release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, ending the siege on Gaza and working to abolish the apartheid regime extending across the Holy Land.
It makes me feel insecure
That’s why, Greenberg said, “At this moment, my former boss is the person who makes me feel most insecure, as an American Jew.”
She said that there are lessons that can be learned “from our faith and our history, as we see, every day, pictures of the displaced in Gaza, and remember our loved ones who were killed in the Holocaust, this memory, which in turn, reminds me of the Nakba: the tragedy that occurred in 1948 when Palestinian society was destroyed and people were displaced.” An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled their homeland to form modern Israel today. The Holocaust and the Nakba mean the same thing.
Greenberg concluded her article by saying, “I resigned on Wednesday, May 15, the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, because I could no longer serve with a president who refuses to stop another catastrophe.”