Hundreds Of Former Obama Staffers Slam White House For Not Doing Enough For Gaza

More than 250 former staffers in the Obama administration and campaign workers for the Obama-Biden ticket sent a letter to their former bosses on Tuesday demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and calling for the U.S. to end its staunch support of Israel.

More than 170 former staffers, alumni, interns and campaign directors signed their names to the letter, while about 80 signatories remained anonymous because of fear of professional retaliation.

“We are writing to you together because we see you both as our leaders with tremendous influence over the fate of Palestinians and our democratic society here in America. We implore you both to lead now before our democracy and the world backslide further into war and authoritarianism,” the letter says.

“The U.S. is a lone pariah standing on the wrong side of history,” it adds.

The letter — sent as a follow-up to a November letter ― urged former President Barack Obama to use his influence to back a cease-fire and advise current President Joe Biden to reverse course in Gaza, suspend military aid to Israel and increase sanctions, and recognize Palestine as a member state of the United Nations.

The letter comes a day after more than 100 immigrant, refugee, human rights and humanitarian organizations sent a letter demanding that Congress and Biden reinstate funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, a Palestinian aid organization.

Rumana Ahmed, who worked in the White House for six years when Obama was president, with her last role as senior adviser to the deputy national security adviser, told HuffPost that many of the signatories feel betrayed by their former bosses.

“So many of us have given our careers and spent so many years