Jewish Biden appointee who resigned says US president has ‘blood on his hands’
Lily Greenberg Call is the first “Biden appointee” to resign as a result of Joe Biden’s complete acquiescence to Israel’s slaughter in Gaza. Actually, another Jewish member of the US administration did resign – a career military officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Greenberg Call talks in her resignation letter about how she was a true believer in the Biden administration having worked on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
However, she writes that she 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 actually goes on to say that President Biden has the blood of innocent people on his hands.
And she particularly centres her opposition on being Jewish. In particular, she is very triggered by President Biden’s consistent conflation of Jewishness and supporting what Israel is doing in Gaza. Biden, she writes, is making Jews the face of the American war machine – and that is so deeply wrong. And she says that both Biden and Israel are making Jews less safe around the world.
US Democrats pen letter urging Biden to expand sanctions on extremist settlers
A group of top Congress Democrats have urged President Joe Biden’s administration to expand its efforts against extremist Israeli settlers and their financial backers in the occupied West Bank.
The letter – penned to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Ben Cardin, Senate Armed Services Committee chair Jack Reed, and Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner – urged them to “‘follow the money”.
“We urge the Administration to continue to increase efforts to target all actors complicit in this violence, including private entities involved in materially supporting violent acts or the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank,” the letter reads.
The Biden administration has issued sanctions against several Israeli settlers and entire settlement outposts in recent months, but the efforts have been criticised as ineffective.
Meta restores Facebook posts showing Malaysian PM meeting with Hamas official
Meta Platforms META.O has restored Facebook posts showing Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s meeting with a Hamas leader after drawing backlash from the Malaysian government over the removal, the Reuters news agency reports.
Malaysia, a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, had criticised Meta’s decision to remove posts by local news outlets covering Anwar’s meeting with Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Qatar on Monday.
A letter was sent to Meta asking for an explanation and a warning was issued that social media companies could face penalties in Malaysia if they were found to be blocking pro-Palestine content on their platforms.
“Two posts were removed in error and have now been restored,” a Meta spokesperson told Reuters. Meta has designated Hamas as a “dangerous organisation” and bans pro-Hamas content on the platform.
Lol 2 posts removed in error. Remember the roll Meta played in the Myanmar Genocide
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/
Now Meta is supporting the Gaza Genocide
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content
