Twelve former U.S. officials who quit President Joe Biden's administration between late 2023 and mid-2024 over U.S. support for Israeli attacks on Gaza signed a joint statement saying that Democratic presidential candidates for the 2028 race should denounce that policy and its architects.
Loading...
Click the alert icon to follow topics:
FollowGaza
FollowJoe Biden
FollowIsrael-Gaza War
FollowDemocrats
FollowIsrael - U.S.
Comments
Your Perspective Belongs Here
Want to reply? Subscribe to join the conversation
SUBSCRIBE
Already signed up? Log in
In the News
In the News:
Israel Election Live Updates Election ResultsNetanyahuArab VotesShin Bet Eisenkot IranAndrey XLula da SilvaHaQuizHaaretz Podcast
Haaretz, running a short Reuters item, reports that twelve former Biden officials who resigned over Gaza want 2028 Democratic candidates to reject the policy and its architects. Its headline says the officials target staff who enabled the "Gaza War", and leaves out their central charge that those staff enabled Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Hedges the documented record
Minor
“Shun Staff Who Enabled Gaza War”
Why this matters
Haaretz says in its own voice that the officials target staff who "Enabled Gaza War". The officials' charge of enabling genocide becomes enabling a war.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the former officials object to US backing for a war, a policy dispute, rather than accusing Biden's aides of enabling genocide.
The context
The resignees' statement says senior officials are "white-washing their own roles in enabling genocide" and asks candidates to acknowledge US complicity in Israel's genocide. The UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Nowhere in the article does the word genocide appear.
On the recordThe UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry found, on 16 September 2025, that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip.ohchr.org (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “genocide”.