The White House plans to hold a “morale-boosting” party amid growing discontent among administration staff over Israel policy, according to a new report.
President Biden's billionaire chief of staff Jeff Zaientz is giving hundreds of gifts to his staff to recognize their accomplishments over the past three years and to cheer them up for what could be Biden's last term in office. The plan was to hold an “off-campus” party for several staff members. According to Axios.
The party's plan comes as one senior Biden education official resigned Wednesday in protest of the administration's policy on the war between Israel and Hamas, and more than a dozen Biden campaign staffers similarly issued an anonymous letter calling for the administration's commitment to the war. The announcement was made in response to people expressing dissatisfaction with the initiative. .
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President Biden will join Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Invitations to the party were emailed to staff on Wednesday and said it would be held at a private venue in Northern Virginia later this month.
“To ensure we can invite as many staff members as possible, this invitation is non-transferable and does not include guests,” Zients wrote in the invitation.
The party will be for government officials rather than campaign workers, but the new pushback against Biden's Israel policy reflects the opposition expressed by many administration officials in November as the war escalated. This shows that it is only expanding.
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White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients attends an event in the East Room of the White House on March 1, 2023. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Tariq Habash, Special Assistant for Planning at the Ministry of Education, said: “This atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, which leading human rights experts have called an act of genocide by the Israeli government,'' said in a statement. I can't remain silent as the government turns a blind eye.” , Evaluation and Policy Development. his resignation letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.
Seventeen Biden campaign staffers used similar language in their letter, calling the deaths of Palestinians “unjustifiable.”
“As staff, we believe it is a moral and electoral imperative to publicly call for an end to violence,” they wrote.
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“We joined this campaign because the values you and we share are worth fighting for. Our beliefs in justice, empathy, and the sanctity of human life are the but also the backbone of this country,” they added. “But your administration's response to Israel's indiscriminate bombing in Gaza is fundamentally at odds with those values, and we believe it could damage the 2024 election. I am.”
In November, 400 government officials from 40 departments within the administration signed a letter objecting to the president's handling of the war and calling for a ceasefire, and a leaked internal State Department memo urged the administration to change its public stance toward Israel. Contains information about employees. and supports a ceasefire.
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FOX News' Sarah Rumpf-Witten and Anders Hagström contributed to this report.
