WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) didn’t mince words Wednesday on Capitol Hill where he denounced America’s dramatic rise in antisemitism and the alarming rhetoric he’s seen in the days following October 7th.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Schumer, the highest-ranking elected Jewish official in American history, described the situation as a “five-alarm fire that must be extinguished.”
“I’m speaking up to issue a warning informed by lessons of history too often forgotten,” said Schumer. “No matter what our beliefs, no matter where we stand on the war in Gaza, all of us must condemn antisemitism with full-throated clarity wherever we see it before it metastasizes into something even worse.”
Schumer warned against blaming Jews for Israeli policy and cautioned not to allow criticism of that government to turn into something much darker.
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“Some of the most extreme rhetoric has emboldened antisemites and they’re attacking Jewish people just for being Jewish,” he said.
Schumer believes younger Americans especially seem to be jumping
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