A Jewish-American Army Major is speaking out after resigning from his intelligence position in protest of President Joe Biden's "unqualified" support of Israel.
Major Harrison Mann had worked as an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency for the last 13 years until he resigned in November.
Major Mann spoke out on Tuesday in an interview with CBS News. Harrison Mann, a Jewish former U.S. Army major, resigned to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
In an exclusive interview, he told @JimAxelrod why he can no longer serve in the Army: “I didn’t really feel like I had that much of a choice.” pic.twitter.com/6SYS9S6plk
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"I'm confident saying it's certainly some measure of ethnic cleansing," said Mann. "I don't know how you kill 35,000 civilians by accident."
Mann said his grandparents fled Eastern Europe over anti-semitism and that Israel's response to October 7 has "turned the whole world against it," and endangered Jewish people.
"At some point — whatever the justification — you're either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you're not," Mann wrote in his resignation letter, which was obtained by the Daily Mail. "And I want to clarify that as the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing."
At least six government officials have resigned in protest of Biden's seemingly unconditional support for Israel's war on Gaza.
"The past months have presented us with the most horrific and heartbreaking images imaginable," Mann wrote. "And I have been unable to ignore the connection between those images and my duties here."
Mann added, "I do not think it is in the spirit of 'never again.'"
