U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible“ Not to See Echoes of Holocaust

Support our work: We speak with U.S. Army Major Harrison Mann, the first military and intelligence officer to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Mann left his role at the Defense Intelligence Agency after a 13-year career, saying in a public letter explaining his resignation that “nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel … has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.“ Mann submitted his resignation on November 1, just over three weeks into Israel’s assault on Gaza, but his separation from the military became effective last week. “Even in the first weeks after October 7 … it was really clear that they were prepared to inflict huge numbers of civilian casualties,“ Mann tells Democracy Now! “I understood that every day that I was going to go into the office, I was going to be contributing to the Israeli camp