Father of Biden staffer who resigned over Gaza is senior executive at Raytheon

On May 18, 2024

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May 18, 2024, 8:57 a.m. ET

Former Biden administration staffer Lily Greenberg-Call resigned in protest over U.S. support for Israel.

The dad of the Department of Interior staffer who dramatically resigned this week to protest the Biden administration’s support for Israel is a senior executive at a defense giant that supplies American weapons to the Land of Milk and Honey.

Lily Greenberg-Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, went out with a bang Wednesday with a red-hot resignation letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide,” wrote Greenberg-Call, 26 who additionally condemned Israel’s “violations of international law” perpetrated with “American weapons.”

Greenberg-Call’s father is a senior executive at the weapons maker Raytheon — which has close ties to Israel. Getty Images

Greenberg-Call is the daughter of Thomas Call, a senior executive at a division of RTX Corp., formerly Raytheon Technologies Corp., one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, according to his LinkedIn.

Her mother Aimee Greenberg, is a successful theater producer.

Call, 64, is a chief engineer at Raytheon Applied Signal Technology, which was acquired by Raytheon in 2010 and was a “market leader in advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” according to a press release.

The weapons behemoth regularly stocks Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system, something the company proudly notes on its website.

“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide,” Greenberg-Call said to Interior Secretary Secretary Deb Haaland (pictured). AP

RTX has also become a target of pro-Hamas demonstrations for weapons with offensive capabilities.

Ironically, while in high school at the ritzy, near-$40,000 a year San Diego Jewish Academy, Greenberg-Call was as staunch Israel advocate, and once reportedly served as president of her high school’s Israel advocacy club.

Her views began to shift after going to college at Berkeley, meeting “Palestinian-Americans at school” and entering Democratic politics, according to an essay she wrote in May 2022 for Teen Vogue.