After Sen. Schumer took to the floor to the Senate floor to claim that Israel, along with Hamas was an obstacle to peace, and to threaten that unless there was regime change and a terror state in Israel, there would be sanctions, he’s back complaining about President Trump’s comments.
So is the rest of the ‘Jews for Hamas’ caucus. Including the No. 2’s number two.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff excoriated Donald Trump on Tuesday, after the former president told a conservative radio host that Jews who vote Democratic “hate Israel.”
“This is a disgusting, toxic, antisemitic thing to say, by anyone, let alone a former president of the United States and it must be condemned,” Emhoff said during a campaign event in Nebraska, according to Bloomberg.
Emhoff is particularly contemptible here.
His wife has become the leading anti-Israel figure in this administration. She used a civil rights event to smear and attack Israel. It’s been weeks since he even tweeted about events in Israel. (And we won’t even go into his daughter’s politics.)
And Sen. Schumer himself popped out of the box to whine that “Donald Trump’s comments were reprehensible, dangerous, and utterly disgusting” and demanded that “everyone must condemn Trump’s words”.
In reality, a series of Jewish groups have been condemning Schumer’s words. Some correctly and some weakly. But they’ve been doing it.
“We are deeply troubled by Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel. Israel is a democratic state whose citizens choose their own leaders and decide their own fate,” stated B’nai B’rith International. “The U.S. should stand behind Israel’s objective, supported by the vast majority of Israelis, of removing Hamas from control of Gaza. As long as Hamas remains in power, there can be no peace in the region.”
Morton Klein, national president for the Zionist Organization of America, stated that “Schumer insulted every Jew and the Jewish faith itself.”
“Majority Leader Schumer would better be serving peace if he called for an end to the Iranian regime, the Hamas terrorist mass murdering and mass raping regime in Gaza, and a Palestinian Authority government that has passed a pay-to-slay-Jews law that financially rewards murder and maiming Israelis,” stated the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, stated that Schumer, rather than Netanyahu, has “lost his way” and the senator “is using Netanyahu as a bogeyman for hatred directed against Jews for having the temerity to defend Jewish lives.”
“Every Israeli, and every committed Jew, recognizes the malignant hatred of those calling Israel ‘genocidal’ as it eliminates a genocidal terror organization, or calling for a ‘ceasefire’ to permit the terrorists to regroup, rearm and again murder the innocent,” Schonfeld added. “He should apologize for his counterproductive interference in Israel’s democratic governance and self-defense.”
Schumer’s comments were “reprehensible, dangerous, and utterly disgusting”. And despite his claim and that of his leftist allies that they represented the average American Jewish person, they clearly do not.