The Anti-Israel Mutiny at the State Department

A little over a week after the October 7 massacre, Josh Paul, a midlevel official in the State Department, resigned in protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel. The unbearable guilt Paul experienced when Israel retaliated against the terrorist organization responsible for the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust was the only remarkable thing about his resignation. Nevertheless, his departure from Foggy Bottom received outsize coverage in left-wing media venues like HuffPost and the New York Times.

Those outlets and others somehow concluded that Paul’s inability to stomach America’s support for Israel’s war of self-defense — as opposed to America’s provision of arms to states like Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam, none of which produced similar qualms — said more about the Biden administration than about Paul.