The first thing to say about Chuck Schumer’s Antisemitism in America: A Warning is that nobody wants this book. No blurbs, reviews, or endorsements grace its cover. The only praise for the author’s half-century as an elected official can be found inside the book’s pages, from Schumer himself. The curious reader who looks at the back cover will instead be greeted with an excerpt from the book that promises “the specter of antisemitism haunting the American continent” threatens the foundations of the United States itself. Yet the specter haunting the back cover is the senator himself, who appears above the quoted passage, reading glasses resting slightly askew on the bridge of his nose, with a sly smile. Though sounding an alarm, he seems completely at ease.
I’m not taking moral guidance from a genocide apologist. It just isn’t going to happen. He has destroyed his credibility.
Only people can be the victims of bigotry and racism, not nation-states. To use another example, it is not Sinophobia to criticize the actions of the Chinese government.
This article is such an incredible takedown of Chuck Schumer. You get the sense that the author abridged some of his thoughts only in order to avoid writing a book-length review about how thoroughly he despises this book and Chuck Schumer, both personally and politically.
Get fucked chuck!
The US does have an anti-semitism problem, but criticism of Israel and the IDF is not anti-semitism. Fuck Schumer for trying to equate the two and therefore empowering both the real anti-semites and the genocidal Israeli regime.
The same person who taught me that antisemitism and antizionism aren’t the same thing also made me eat a burrito on his front porch because it wasn’t kosher.
antisemitism: jews have no place in this society
zionism: jews have no place in this society
hopefully this helps people see the problem with labeling anti-zionism as antisemitism
As a reminder, the only people who conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism are raging anti-Semites. They hold the Hitlerian belief that to be Jewish is to owe allegiance from birth to Israel. They don’t believe Jews can truly be real Americans, or citizens of any country except Israel. Schumer believes in the old Nazi belief that Jews are, by nature of their birth, foreigners in every country except Israel. This is why they believe any criticism of Israel is an attack on Jews everywhere, because they believe that Jewish people cannot be truly American. They are always suspect. They’ll always have dual loyalty. Schumer is a raging anti-Semite.
