Posted on 03/25/2019 5:04:20 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer strongly pushed back against the anti-semitic label Republicans have been pushing on Democratic party, arguing that Israel needs a united front from its ally.
“Not only is it demonstrably false to say Democrats are anti-Israel. It also hurts the Israel-US relationship,” Mr. Schumer said at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference Monday. “Those who seek to use Israel as a means of scoring political points do a disservice to both Israel and the United States.”
His comments come after Democrats have struggled to address anti-semitic controversies surrounding some of its own freshman members and 2020 presidential candidates. Republicans have capitalized on the growing list of controversies to argue that Democrats have become the party of anti-Semitism.
The top Senate Democrat said that Americans had a duty to specifically call out examples of anti-semitism whenever and from wherever they arise “with clarity, with courage.”
Though he didn’t mention any specific names, Mr. Schumer directly condemned the anti-semitic tropes Rep. Ilahn Omar used on Twitter.
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That is because you are seeking to be offended.
Your friends dance on eggshells.
I’ll go with neutral, then.
You mean the “good” Jew Schumer who voted with the rest on the anti-Semitism bill that was solely hijacked for Islamic purposes with the help of Omar the Jew hater
Pretty rich coming from a dude who talked nonstop about trump being a Nazi because 15 trailer trash Nazis crashed a march in Charlottesville
LOL. The political points are just byproducts of shining a light on the obvious antisemitism being practiced by our leftists in the US government.
So now, to condemn obvious antisemitism is wrong, because it scores political points, according to Schumer.
Yes, political points might actually be scored, yet that is a consequence, not a motivation, and Schumer knows it.
All he is doing is trying to quiet the honest voices condemning the antisemitism within Schumer’s party. He thinks he is going on offense against his party’s critics, when he really is only giving a very weak defense.
Points scored. You don’t like it, Chucky? So you do something about it.
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