A veteran State Department staffer also left his post in October over Washington’s support of war in Gaza
A senior official at the US Department of Education has resigned in protest of President Joe Biden’s support of Israel, saying the administration had turned a blind eye to “atrocities” against Palestinians amid the latest war in Gaza.
Policy adviser Tariq Habash, a Palestinian-American, left his position on Wednesday, explaining in a resignation letter that he could not continue to “represent an administration that does not value all human life equally.”
“The actions of the Biden-Harris Administration have put millions of innocent lives in danger, most immediately for the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians living in Gaza who remain under continuous assault and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli government. Therefore, I must resign,” Habash wrote. “I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities…
