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Far-left Hill staff are urging their colleagues to submit “dissent memos” advocating for America to abandon Israel as the Middle Eastern war expands. 

The effort, which received positive coverage from the New York Times over the summer, has yet to yield results. One veteran Hill staffer told the Washington Reporter: “I saw more effective resistance protesting the closure of &pizza in Rayburn.”

Anti-Israel staffers have attempted to steer their bosses away from America’s strongest ally in the region, sending out at least nine “urgent request[s]” last month, per records reviewed by the Reporter. 

“We are writing to encourage you to contribute to the Dissent Channel’s growth and influence by drafting a Dissent Memo that showcases your unique perspective and expertise as a congressional staffer,” one email read. “Your insight into decision-making, financial influence, and constituent pressures in your office on this perennial issue can help pull back the curtain and shed light on how our bosses represent their constituents’ interests and those of the U.S. at large. Staffers can play an instrumental role in examining and altering the United States’ support for Israel’s brutal assault on Palestine. Your contribution can chip away at entrenched ideologies steering U.S foreign policy in the Middle East.”

In diplomatic parlance, a “dissent channel” exists so that lower-level employees can, in part, send such “dissent memos” to convey their frustrations to the higher-ups without fear of retribution. It was created amidst the Vietnam War, and the concept has remained controversial as Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued to withhold a dissent cable sent to him by State Department employees who warned of pending failures in Afghanistan before the Biden administration’s failed withdrawal. 

One foreign policy staffer on the Hill said of the staffers: “at least I know what these staffers are going for Halloween: cosplay resistance.”


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