Thursday, March 28, 6-8pm, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.

The State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. Josh Paul previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Congressional staffer for U.S. Congressional Representative Steve Israel (D-NY).

Josh Paul resigned from the State Department in October 2023 in protest of the Biden administration’s continued military support for Israel despite widely documented war crimes and crimes against humanity during its ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which the International Court of Justice determined was plausibly a genocide.

In his resignation letter from the State Department on October 18, 2023, Paul wrote, “I cannot work in support of a set of major policy decisions, including rushing more arms to one side of the conflict, that I believe to be shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse.”

This event will be moderated by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Professor of History, Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, OSU Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Hosted by Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at OSU, Students for Justice in Palestine at OSU, Jews for Justice in Palestine at OSU, and Jewish Voice for Peace of Central Ohio.

Parking is free; no registration is required.

Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.