The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded another in a “growing list” of Biden administration officials who have resigned over the president’s continuing complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Stacy Gilbert, a senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her post over the Biden administration’s policies on Gaza. According to the Washington Post, Gilbert sent an email to State Department employees saying a report that Israel did not obstruct aid to Gaza was incorrect.
“We applaud the principled actions of Stacy Gilbert and those on the growing list of Biden administration officials who reject our nation’s complicity in the Gaza genocide,” said CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell. “This complicity in genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced starvation is staining the reputation of all those involved.”
Earlier this month, CAIR applauded Lily Greenberg Call, an Interior Department official who resigned from her position over continued US support for the genocide in Gaza. Greenberg Call says that she is the first Jewish-American administration official to resign due to the genocide.
CAIR also commended Defense Department intelligence agency official Major Harrison Mann for resigning in protest of the Biden administration’s military and financial support for the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza.
In March, CAIR thanked a U.S. State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East who resigned in protest of U.S. support for the far-right Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza.
In January, CAIR commended former Biden administration official Tariq Habash for his “courageous and principled” decision to resign in protest of President Biden’s support for ongoing war crimes against civilians in Gaza.
Habash, formerly a Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration, quit to protest the administration’s support of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
Other Biden Administration Resignations:
In April Hala Rharrit, a former Arabic language spokesperson for the State Department, resigned over the administration’s position on the war.
Josh Paul, a former director at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, resigned after Israel launched its war on Gaza.
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