Harvard was also the place where Schumer first saw anti-Semitism left in action-use of the cloak of anti-Syonism, as it often does today. In a 1970 campus speech by Israeli Foreign Minister ABBA Eban, the students of the gallery unfold a banner who wrote, fought Zionist imperialism. Schumer’s book remembers Eban’s answer:
“I’m talking to you there in the gallery,” Eban said. “Every time a people take their state status, you welcome it, there is only one people, when they win a state affair, you do not welcome, you condemn – and that is the Jewish people.” The double standard – whether it is who could work in what profession or move to Moscow in the Tsarist Empire or who could have a state – was the essence of anti -Semitism.
It is noteworthy and politically fragile that Schumer’s book devotes plenty of space to the exposure of leftist anti -Semitism, including Congress’s Call of Congresses such as Minnesota spokesman Ilhan Omar for anti -Semitic explosions. He also invites anti-Israeli campuses, such as a demonstrator in a UCLA rally, screaming, “beat this fucking Jewish” next to a piñata that bears the resemblance of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, or an Israeli Prime Minister Seventh of October goes every day for you. “
Is Schumer concerned that his party leans towards an anti-Israeli direction-which will also be at its edges, also leaning on anti-Semitism? “My café is overwhelmingly pre-Israel,” he insisted on me, noting that when the Senate voted for “the largest helping package in Israel, I lost only three democrats”, including Bernie Sanders, an independent that restricts the Democrats.
But he also warned that “the greatest danger to Israel, in the long run, is if you lose half of America”-the liberal half. In one of Netanyahu’s previous visits to the United States, Schumer told me he called on the prime minister to “go to Rachel Maddow and not just Sean Hannity”. Netanyahu ignored the tips, and Schumer, in a Senate speech, later asked for New elections to replace him, for which he remains “strongly proud”. He showed Democrats, he said, that Netanyahu could oppose while defending the Jewish state.
“My job,” he told me, “is to keep the left pre-Israel.”
Then there is anti -Semitism right. Just as some anti-Israeli protesters use the word “Zionist” as a substitute for the Jew, the angles of the right also had their own coded anti-Semitic language, such as “troops” or “globalists”.
