Jewish activists plan a protest in New York against Schumer on the day of the book launch
Jewish activists predict a protest against the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, when his book warned of anti -Semitism is published on Tuesday – with them accusing him of not having helped to stop anti -Semitism.
The 74 -year -old Jewish Democratic Senator in New York should release his volume “Anti -Semitism in America: a warning” – while criticisms are preparing to come together outside a cultural center of Upper East Side to protest against what they say to be his failure to adopt the proposal for awareness of anti -Semitism.
“The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about anti -Semitism is how to disseminate it,” the Jewish activist Aliza Licht wrote in a statement.
“The Jewish community will not allow Schumer to happen as a self-proclaimed” rumoring “Jews” when he fueled anti-Semitism in America with his double speaker and inability to protect Jewish civil rights, “said Licht.
Schumer, the highest Jewish civil servant in the United States, last year promised leaders In the community, he would try to pass the law on awareness of anti -Semitism to help limit anti -Semitism on campuses across the country.
But the effort blocked the disagreements between him and the president of the room Mike Johnson (R-La) on how to pass him. Schumer wanted him to nailed on legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act involving more money for the military, while Johnson sought to be an autonomous vote, Axios reported.
The bill on anti -Semitism would oblige the Federal Ministry of Education to use the definition of anti -Semitism of the International Alliance of the Holocaust of the Holocaust Holocaust when it examines the potential violations of civil rights law.
This definition quotes examples of anti -Semitism as “comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis”, “affirming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist effort” and “applying two standards by demanding (Israel) unwanted or requested behavior of any other democratic nation”.
The Democrats broke out on the proposed act, some, as the representative of Manhattan, Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish, raising free concerns of politics concerning politics.
The proposed law has since been reintroduced to the Senate by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NEV.) And Tim Scott (R-SC).
Activists who predict Tuesday’s demonstration against Schumer in Manhattan also say that they are also angry with his response to the efforts of the Trump administration to expel the anti -Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil – something that was interrupted by the courts.
Khalil, who stayed in the United States on a student visa, was an eminent student activist during anti-Israeli chaos who engulfed the University of Columbia last year.
Schumer denounced Khalil’s behavior, but demanded that the Trump administration “correctly articulates the accusations or criminal facts which would justify his detention or the initiation of an expulsion procedure against him”.
“I hate many opinions and politicians that Mahmoud Khalil holds and supports, and I made a criticism of anti -Semitic actions in Columbia,” said Schumer on X in response to Khalil’s detention.
But if the administration cannot prove that he has violated a criminal law to justify taking this serious action and the fact for the opinions he expressed, then it is bad, they violate the protections of the first amendment we all enjoy, “said the senator.
Schumer’s future book is intended to offer a “warning” based on the history of the consequences of the “oldest hatred in the world” to go “without control.
“Obviously, with the great increase in anti-Semitism since October 7, it has not passed,” Schumer told NPR about hatred against Jews in the United States. “And we have to make sure that we have to be vigilant and push against that, fight against that all along.”
Schumer’s office did not send a request for postal comments.
