Chuck Schumer

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Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian protest on the day of the two-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre, in New York City, October 7, 2025; illustrative.

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The US must display unwavering support for Israel - opinion

My recommendation to members of the Knesset and the Israeli people is to call out Schumer’s remarks as meshugas (Yiddish for “nonsense”).

 MEMBERS OF Palestinian Islamic Jihad walk through the ruins in the Netzarim synagogue, September 2005. Israel agreed to forcibly remove some 8,500 Jews from Gaza and turn it over to the Palestinians for self-rule.

Major American Jewish org meets with Schumer, remains 'distressed' over speech

Now is not the time for public criticisms that empower detractors of Israel, Schleifer and Daroff said, arguing that such criticisms foster divisiveness. 

 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) looks at his notes during a press conference following weekly Senate caucus luncheons at the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 17, 2024.

Labor MK Kariv to Senator Schumer: 'We thank you for your leadership, courage'

Kariv also said that Schumer's words "introduced us to a different type of Jewish and Zionist leadership."

 MK Gilad Kariv speaks during a discussion in the Knesset, on July 23, 2023

Senator Schumer: You are no guardian of Israel - opinion

It is both audacious and insulting for the majority leader of the US Senate to say what he did about a fellow democracy and ally of the US.

 US SENATE Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, last week.

Donald Trump claims Jews voting for Democrats hate 'their religion,' 'should be ashamed'

Trump said that under his leadership, Iran had been left too broke to fund terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

Donald Trump at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor

Time for Israel to climb down the tree - comment

Israel has already won the war on the battlefield. Hamas is a shell of what it was. But it is suffering a terrible loss on the battlefield of diplomacy.

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Letters to the Editor, March 18, 2024: Secular and anti-halachic

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Chuck Schumer: Don't interfere in Israel's politics - editorial

Controversy stirred as Schumer's call for Israeli elections challenged alliances. Explore the delicate balance between support and intervention.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is flanked by then-Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (left) and then-Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, at the US Capitol in 2017.

Are elections an option? - opinion

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 Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Yoav Galant, Israel Katz. The meeting on increasing the budget, March 2024

How Biden, circa 1992, would respond to Schumer of 2024

The contrast between what Biden said then and his reaction to Schumer’s speech is glaring.

 US President Joe Biden attends a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023