Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer in his new book claimed that the January 6th riot in Capitolville was a prime example of the “danger of right-wing anti-Semitism.”
“Throughout our lives, American Jews of my generation knew that if someone was about to step into our home or synagogue with a gun, it would likely be someone on the far right,” Schumer (D-NY) wrote a book “Anti-Semitism: Warning,” which hit the bookshelf on Tuesday and was acquired by the Post.
Schumer, 74, pointed to a massive shooting at a synagogue tree of Pittsburgh's life in 2018. This was the most deadly attack on the Jewish community in US history, which killed 11 people, killing Chabad, a Poway shooting in San Diego.
But the Jewish senator explained that these attacks had just as hard-watched anti-Semitism as the attack on the Capitol by President Trump's supporters.
“However, the event that opened my eyes to the dangers of right-wing anti-Semitism and swayed my soul was something I lived through on January 6, 2021,” Schumer wrote, adding that he does not believe the president himself shares anti-Yumite views.
The senator proved former President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory, recalling how he looked forward to becoming the best elected Jewish official in American history after feeling “yank around the neck” two democratic victories in the Georgia Senate the night before, and “yank over the ears.”
He was being relegated to safety by Capitol police officers, and Schumer spoke at the “mob of people in front of us” in the central corridor of the Capitol.
“There's a big Jew. Let's get him,” Schumer claims he heard one of the mob scream.
The alleged incident was one of the “several” examples of anti-Semitism presented on January 6, 2021, Schumer said.
The hatred show includes reports of hatred of rats salutes, raising sw flags and wearing clothes in anti-Semitic messages – “The main driver of the riots is not anti-Semitic, but always appears to travel in extreme right-wing circles,” Schumer argued.
“I immediately thought of 20,000 American Nazis at Madison Square Garden,” the senator wrote after seeing photos of the mob in a “Camp Auschwitz” sweater. “If they were alive today, I knew they were the kind of people who would raid the Capitol.”
“For me and many others, January 6th was a reminder of what happened when conspiracy theory, hyper-ecologicalism and prejudice flourished and given direction and targeted as a result of political extremism,” he continued.
“[T]He is the same forces that influenced the mob on January 6th that promote anti-Semitism. ”
Despite this view, Schumer does not believe that Trump (78) is anti-Semitic.
“Let me be clear. I don't think Donald Trump is anti-Semble,” wrote a New York Democrat. “But he too often, unashamed or coded language produced a sense of safe port due to the distant elements expressing anti-Semitic sentiment.”
The senator also accused Trump of not trying to “treat” anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment on campus and threatening to strip federal funds from universities that allow “prohama” activists to be deported, saying he is “anti-Semitic” as his predecessor has.
“Anti-Semitism itself was not an invention of rights, it has never been before,” Schumer wrote.
“That's why it's not the isolated gunman we fear most. “We're more afraid of the idea that drives him to pull than a guy with his finger on the trigger.”
“Just as many people on the right feel that Democrats justify their obligation to shout anti-Semitism on the left, Republicans have a duty to shout anti-Semitism coming from the right.”
