IN EARLY January Tariq Habash, a senior U.S. Education Department official and a Biden appointee, resigned his position. He was the first government official of Palestinian origin, to resign in protest over the U.S. enabling Israel to commit genocide in Gaza.
In his resignation letter that he shared with media outlets Habash wrote:
'...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...I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government."
Tariq Habash speaks with Abby Martin of the Empire Files about his decision to resign.
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