Dozen Biden Resignees Warn 2028 Candidates Against Hiring Gaza Officials

Twelve former officials from the Biden administration have published a joint letter directing all candidates for the 2028 presidential election to exclude ex-employees who supported Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The group argues that individuals who enabled what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have defined as a genocide should not hold positions of influence in any future government.

The signatories, drawn primarily from the State Department, intelligence agencies, and the military, include both Arab American and Jewish American officials. They demand that incoming candidates acknowledge the United States' role in providing arms, funding, and diplomatic cover for Israel. The letter states that these officials should be barred from institutions where they could shape foreign policy or train the next generation of leaders.

Recent public statements from high-ranking Biden aides have reinforced the resignees' critique. In June 2025, former State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told Sky News that Israel committed war crimes without a doubt, though he stopped short of calling it a genocide. Two months later, former national security advisor Jake Sullivan said he would support Congress withholding military aid to Israel after the ceasefire collapsed in March 2025. This stance contrasted with his earlier efforts to lobby Democratic lawmakers against blocking arms transfers.

Vice President Kamala Harris admitted in October 2025 that Israel’s actions constituted horrific conduct. Speaking in South Korea, she stated that the administration had fallen short of its moral obligations and should have acted sooner and more forcefully.

The conflict has resulted in more than 250,000 Palestinians killed or injured since the attacks on southern Israel in October 2023. The Biden administration committed nearly $30 billion in aid to Israel during the war, a figure no other supporter has matched. Despite this financial leverage, the administration did not force a ceasefire until Trump’s envoy pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a deal that had been pending for over a year.

The current ceasefire, formalized in October 2025, has been fragile. Israel has killed more than 1,400 Palestinians since the agreement, including 19 children this month. Bishara Bahbah, a Democrat who supported Trump during the transition and helped shuttle messages between Steve Witkoff and Hamas officials, said his attempts to keep the ceasefire a White House priority have been rebuffed. When asked how that made him feel, he said, “Like shit.”