Biden Interior Department Staffer Resigns over U.S. Policy in Gaza

Another Biden Administration appointee has resigned in protest of U.S. policy in Gaza. “I cannot continue working for an administration that ignores the voices of its diverse staff by continuing to fund and enable Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” Maryam Hassanein, a staffer in the Department of the Interior, wrote in an open resignation letter, reported the Times of Israel this week. Hassanein, 24, took on her job in February. “I joined the Biden-Harris Administration with the belief that my voice and diverse perspective would lend a hand in the pursuit of that justice,” Hassanein writes in her resignation letter. “However, over the past nine months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, this Administration has chosen to uphold the status quo instead of listening to the diverse voices of staff urgently demanding freedom and justice for Palestinians.”