The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in America, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, secretly sided with the antisemites, per a shocking new report from the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
Per the blockbuster, 325-page report, Columbia University’s then-President Minouche Shafik’s said that Schumer’s staff had told her the senator advised that the best response to the outbreak of pro-Hamas violence was to “to keep heads down.” More, she claimed Schumer himself had said Columbia bigs shouldn’t be concerned about the horrors because the “political problems are really only among Republicans.”
No: A massive upsurge of pro-terror sentiment at an elite university is a “political problem” for everyone.
Schumer says it’s all hearsay, and it’s true that none of this is direct quotes from the senator. But he’s a crack communicator; it’d be beyond bizarre for anyone to mis-hear him this badly.
Since it certainly wasn’t just Republicans (nor just Jews) outraged, and Columbia’s best course clearly was to clamp down hard on the haters, critics are calling Schumer a traitor — both to his fellow Jews and his country.
After Oct. 7, Columbia became openly, nakedly hostile to Jews under the guise of anti-Zionism (now, as always, camouflage for Jew-hate).
Protest encampments filled with open support of terrorism and murder sprang up.
Thuggish criminals broke into Hamilton Hall to “occupy” it.
Jewish students were harassed, insulted, assaulted and intimidated.
All with the blessing of the school’s cowardly leadership, chief among them Shafik.
Schumer himself offered some public criticism of the thugs, but nowhere near as harsh as they deserved — namely, unremitting outrage that a major school in his hometown was siding with the genocidal maniacs of Hamas.
And if he was indeed backchanneling that it would all blow over and Columbia’s leaders just had to bide their time, well, oy.
And actions speak louder than words, and his don’t speak well of him: He has not only backed Joe Biden’s efforts to stop Israel from beating Hamas, he took to the Senate floor to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, castigating Bibi as the barrier to peace even as Hamas was rejecting all cease-fire offers.
More, Schumer’s refused for months to bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act to a Senate vote.
The bill, which would define antisemitism clearly and so push colleges to enforce anti-discrimination laws, passed the House on May 1 with overwhelming bipartisan support, 320-91.
But Chuck has squelched it because it divides Democrats.
Even now, he won’t allow a clear floor vote on the measure; he’s reportedly saying privately that he’ll just attach it to some must-pass bill after Election Day.
Regardless, using his position he could have forced powerful officials in New York, from the governor on down, to take a harder stance against the hate that has run amok in the city since Oct 7. He hasn’t.
Schumer likes to pun on his last name and call himself the shomer — the guardian — of the Jewish people.
But he now stands revealed as anything but in the eyes of those very same people.
