JOE BIDEN: Are You Listening?

Two weeks into Israel’s assault on Gaza, some State Department employees had already signed on to memos criticizing the White House’s unconditional support of the bombings. These memos, sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken through the agency’s official “dissent channel” — a sanctioned way for employees to show opposition to government policy without fear of retaliation — were the first signs of opposition to Israel’s bombardment from within the United States government.

In the following months, as the administration’s unwavering support for Israel has continued, dissatisfaction within the administration has grown to an unprecedented pitch, with thousands of Biden administration officials coming out against the White House’s Israel policy.

Jewish Currents: https://jewishcurrents.org/biden-staffers-describe-growing-dissent-over-gaza

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I am part of a community which is protesting the continuing Genocide in Gaza. We attend protests. We call our Congresspeople. We attend meetings of various groups. We send and receive a lot of emails.

For myself, my communities are often Jewish and the San Francisco Bay Area Protest Community.

I hope that our efforts will eventually, if not immediately, “succeed”, though what that means is unclear to me.

I am told that — I must support Joe Biden and the Democrats in 2024. The message clearly is that — IF I do NOT choose to do this, I will be complicit in the election of…