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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jonathan Guyer

‘Extraordinary’: Biden administration staffers’ growing dissent against Gaza policy

A large white two-story building with four Roman columns in the front, surrounded by a green lawn and a black iron fence.
The official says he has heard from many more who are contemplating their own exits. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Dissent inside the Biden administration over the president’s Gaza policy is growing, with a public resignation this week of a Department of Education official, and a letter signed by more than a dozen Biden campaign staffers calling for a ceasefire and the conditioning of aid to Israel.

“It’s pretty extraordinary levels of dissent,” said Josh Paul, a career official working on arms sales at the state department who resigned in protest in October, of the mounting signs of discontent. “I am hearing in recent weeks from people who are thinking more seriously about resigning.”

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