A group of Capitol Hill aides have created a public website where Congressional staffers may anonymously voice their opposition to U.S. funding of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
The “Congressional Dissent Channel,” the existence of which was first reported in the The New York Times, went live less than a week after a small group of staffers protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
“We refuse to stand by as the august halls and hearing rooms in which we perform our duties are used to approve military aid that carries out the slaughter of innocent Palestinians,” the channels’ organizers wrote in their mission statement. ….more
