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the trouble with mia :baner:

2 days ago

the trouble with mia :baner:
2 days ago

BREAKING: 🔥 🔥

“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨

#USPolitics #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael

Alt-texters please note that pages 2 and 3 have a huge amount of citations and footnotes, which I have not included.

Dear Secretary Haaland
I joined the Biden administration because I believe in fighting for a better America, for a future where Americans can thrive: one with economic prosperity, a healthy planet, and equal rights for all people. I have dedicated my career to candidates who I believed would further this vision. I worked for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign in 2019, and then moved to Arizona to work for President Biden's campaign in 2020. I was thrilled to join the Department of Interior because I was inspired by your principled track record of championing progressive causes, in addition to your role as an Indigenous woman leading a Department that historically harmed Indigenous communities, and the potential that it has for reparations, reconciliation and healing.
However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this adminitratio amidst President Biden's disastrous continued support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.
I am an American Jew. My family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and found refuge in America. They changed their names at Ellis Island and worked as farmers, peddlers, and salespeople. My grandparents could not go to college. Two generations later, I have the honour of working as an appointee for the President of the United States. The weight of this position is not lost on me. This is the story of many people in my community: a story of survival, upward mobility, and fulfillment of the American Dream.

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And yet, I have asked myself many times over the last eight months: what is the point in having power if you do not use it to stop crimes against humanity?
My whole life has been spent in Jewish community in the US and Israel. I have spent time in Israel/Palestine, and I learned Hebrew and Arabic both formally through school and connection through community. I have family and friends who are Israeli, Palestinian - and have loved ones who have served in the IDF. People in my community have lost loved ones during Hamas' attack on October 7th, beloveds killed, displaced, and taen as hostages. I am terrified by rising antisemitism around the world. And yet I am certain that the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine and ethnic cleansing.
Israel's ongoing offensive against Palestinians does not keep Jewish people safe - in Israel or in the US. What I have learned from my Jewish tradition is that every life is precious. That we are obligated to stand up for those facing violence and oppression, and to question authority in the face of injustice.
As of writing this, Israel has killed over 35,000 people in Gaza, including 15,000 children. The Israeli military has bombed medical infrastructure, beseiged a hospital, left mass graves behind, destroyed every university in Gaza, targeted journalists and aid workers, and committed many, many inexcusable atrocities. These are all violations of international law.

none of which would be possible without American weapons, and none of which have been condemned by President Biden.
The President has the power to call for a lasting ceasefire, to stop sending weapons to Israel, and to condition aid. The United States has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable, quite the opposite, we have enabled and legitimised Israel's actions with vetoes of UN resolutions designed to hold Israel accountable. President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands.
The US has long enabled Israeli war crimes and the status quo of apartheid and occupation. That status quo does not keep Israelis safe, nor Jews around the world. It certainly does not protect Palestinians, who have the right to freedom, safety, self-determination and dignit, just as much as Jewish people do, and every person does. Any system that requires the subjugation of one group over another is not only unjust, but unsafe. Jewish safety cannot - and will not - come at the expense of Palestinian freedom. Making Jews the face of the American war machine makes us less safe. What seems like a lack of awareness in the Administration leadership of how critical this issue is to the American public is devastating to both communities, and politically disastrous.

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Today, May 15th, is Nakba Day, which recognises the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 and the displacement of the majority of Palestinian people for the formation of today's modern Israel. Nakba and Shoah, the Hebrew word for Holocaust, mean the same thing: catastrophe. I reject the premise that one people's salvation must come at another's destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen - and this cannot be done from within the Biden Administration.
My choice to leave is not a reflection of this office or Department. I have felt supported by many individuals here, but I do not feel supported by the policies and actions of this Administration. I have the utmost respect for my colleagues at the Department who have given so much of themselves to doing the good work of preserving our public lands and strengthening Indian Country, and the many public servants across the federal government. I urge you all to take a stand for Palestinian lives. All of our futures depend on this.

Respectfully

Lily Greenberg Call

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Hazel (She/ Her)

3 days ago

Hazel (She/ Her)
3 days ago

Israeli citizens blocking and destroying aid from getting into the starving people of Gaza. Officials do nothing to stop them - This is Genocide! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcx_a83uvmw (English Lang Video/ No Paywall)
#StopTheGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

SICK Israeli Activists Destroy Gaza Aid - And Israeli Authorities Do Nothing

This is just one element of Israel's genocidal onslaught.Please like, subscribe, comment, share - and help us take on the pro-war media here: https://www.pat...

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#freepalestine #stopthegenocide #endtheoccupation #stoparmingisrael

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HarriettMB.

1 week ago

HarriettMB.
1 week ago

Biggest load of evasive obfuscation imaginable. The entire feckin’ world can see what’s happening in Gaza, and has done so for seven months. Israel is so far outside international law, it beggars belief anyone would believe this for a microsecond. #TheHague #Genocide #StopArmingIsrael #WarCrimes