A progressive Biden staffer who resigned in protest over US support for Israel’s war in Gaza is the daughter of a top executive at an arms company that provides weapons to Netanyahu’s government.
Lily Greenberg Call angrily resigned from her position as an Interior Department employee on Wednesday after accusing President Joe Biden of using Jews to justify U.S. policy in the conflict.
Greenberg Call, 26, is the first Jewish political official to publicly resign over US support for what protesters call “Israel’s genocide.”
“I can no longer, in good conscience, continue to represent this administration amid President Biden’s disastrous and continued support for Israel’s genocide,” Greenberg Call wrote in his resignation letter.
But despite condemning Israel’s “violations of international law” perpetuated with “American weapons,” as her letter says, it has now been revealed that the 16-year-old’s father is a senior executive at one of the largest arms traffickers of the world.
Lily Greenberg Call (pictured), 26, resigned from her position as an Interior Department employee on Wednesday citing U.S. involvement in “Israel’s genocide.”
The 16-year-old’s father has been revealed to be a senior executive at one of the world’s biggest arms dealers. In the photo appears the house of his father, Thomas Call, in Oakland, valued at 1.5 million dollars.
Thomas Call, who lives in Oakland, California, is a chief engineer at Raytheon Applied Signal Technology, according to his LinkedIn.
The company, now known as RTX Corp., provides weapons to Israel’s Dome anti-missile system, which the company advertises in its website.
Call owns a $1.5 million home in Oakland, California, and appears to have another daughter around the same age as the former White House staffer.
Although she now holds anti-Israel beliefs, Greenberg Call previously attended a posh San Diego Jewish academy, which cost nearly $40,000 to pay, and was president of her high school’s Israel advocacy club.
He later changed his mind after attending the notoriously liberal Berkeley University, located in Northern California.
According to an essay Greenberg Call wrote for a May 2022 issue of Teen Vogue, his views began to change after meeting “Palestinian-Americans at school” and entering Democratic politics.
Call had worked for the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
She is at least the fifth mid-level or senior administration employee to go public with her resignation in protest of the Biden administration’s military and diplomatic support for Israel’s seven-month-old war against Hamas.
She is the second political appointee to do so, after a Department of Education official of Palestinian descent resigned in January.
Greenberg Call, 26, is the first Jewish political official to publicly resign over US support for ‘Israel’s genocide’ (Pictured: People inspect damage among the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis)
Call had worked for the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
His resignation letter described his excitement at joining an administration that he felt shared much of his vision for the country. “However, in good conscience I can no longer represent this administration,” he wrote.
In an interview with The Associated PressCall pointed to Biden’s comments, including at a Hanukkah event at the White House where he said, “If there was no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who would be safe.”
He also highlighted his comments at an event at Washington’s Holocaust Memorial last week in which he said the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks that sparked the war were driven by an “ancient desire to eliminate the Jewish people.” .
‘He is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is deeply wrong,” he said, noting that his ancestors were murdered by “state-sponsored violence.”
“I think the president needs to know that there are people in his administration who think this is disastrous,” Call said of the war in general and U.S. support for it. “Not just for the Palestinians, for the Israelis, for the Jews, for the Americans, for their electoral prospects.”
