Jewish voters in New York State always had a sense of comfort knowing that a fellow Jew, Chuck Schumer, is not only a U.S. senator from New York, but is also the powerful Senate minority (and at times, majority) leader. They had comfort that, if the Jewish community were attacked in some way, Schumer, a fellow Jew, would have their back.
Unfortunately, Schumer has subordinated his concern for the Jewish people over his own political ambitions and survival.
Schumer became a senator and majority leader when his party was somewhat more moderate. But, over the last five years, the party has drifted way to the progressive left. It could now be clearly seen that the Bernie Sanders/AOC wing of the party has the energy, the money and the momentum — and they’re even controlling the party’s platform.
The party is so paralyzed by the idea of losing the Muslim voting bloc in key swing states like Michigan and Minnesota that they look the other way as Jews are harassed and assaulted.
And now we’ve seen an antisemitic Marxist, Zohran Mamdani, who has called for worldwide Intifada, to possibly be the next mayor of New York.
One would think that Chuck Schumer would speak out against his candidacy.
One would think that Chuck Schumer would’ve railed against the university presidents that looked the other way as Jewish students were harassed and intimidated over the last two years. (He actually told Columbia’s president not to engage in the calls to protect Jewish students on the theory it would soon blow over.)
But Schumer didn’t do either of these things. He is too scared of a primary by the progressive flank, particularly AOC.
How ironic that it is actually southern Christian Republicans who are far more supportive of the Jewish population than is the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, a man of Jewish background himself.
It’s our bet that Schumer is going to be lifted on his own petard, because he will never win over the crazy progressives who are coming after him and he is simultaneously losing the base that got him there in the first place.
And, in a way, it will serve him right, because he’s been acting as a typical self-serving politician.