Fox News: Schumer says he wrote his new book on antisemitism in America 'particularly to the left'

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Schumer says he wrote his new book on antisemitism in America 'particularly to the left'

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he wrote his book on antisemitism "particularly to the left" during an appearance on 'The View' Monday.......                    ...                        ...Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that he wrote his new book about the surge in antisemitism in the United States for multiple audiences but "particularly to the left." ......The Jewish Democrat You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Tuesday that he felt a special responsibility to address the left's disturbing embrace of antisemitism in his book "Antisemitism in America: A Warning."......"Me being a progressive Democrat, I thought I ought to talk to people on the left, that you can't be antisemitic and you're sliding into it. When you say 'You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login' does that mean kill all the Jews?" Schumer asked, referencing the slogan displayed on countless signs at anti-Israel protests across the country.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"When you say 'genocide,' a vicious term... people may not feel Israel did it the right way, but it's not genocide [in Gaza]. It's Hamas who does genocide and wanted to kill all the Jews wherever they are," he said.......Schumer said that antisemitism had been creeping into the United States after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and 2008 financial crisis – with conspiracy theories that Jews were tipped off to the attacks and accusations that Jewish bankers caused the crash, respectively – but it exploded into the mainstream after Hamas' You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"A Jewish bakery, they throw a rock through their window, 'You're a Zionist.' There's a woman who lives near me, she's head of the Brooklyn museum, she's Jewish, she has nothing to do with Israel, they You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login all over her house. People who wore yarmulkes or Jewish Stars, they were punched and vilified," he said, giving examples of what he called "real antisemitism."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......According to the latest available federal data, antisemitic hate crimes surged in 2023 with anti-Jewish attacks being the leading category of religiously-based hate crimes. There were almost 5,000 anti-Jewish attacks You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Schumer listed four other audiences he wrote his book for and added that President Donald Trump should read the book, too......."Trump treats Jews [in a way that's] sort of transactional... but he doesn't understand what Jewish people are like, and he does things that could You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," he said. ...

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