cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42579679
Jon Queally
Feb 02, 2026Progressive critics of Senate Minority Chuck Schumer had fresh reasons to speak out Sunday after the powerful New York Democrat said that “one of many of [his] jobs” in the US Senate was to fight for ongoing taxpayer-funded military and financial assistance to the Israeli government, a position that has been the focus of growing protest among rank-and-file party members and the public at large in the face of Israel’s brutal genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
“I have many jobs as [Senate] leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs,” Schumer said at a gathering of Jewish leaders and community members in New York on Sunday.
According to Jacob Kornbluh, who provided footage of the remarks while reporting for The Forward, Schumer told the audience that his support for Jewish security funding will only continue growing under his leadership, calling it his “baby.”
I thought he was a US Senator representing New York State. Is New York so expensive he needed a second job?
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If only he worked to improve their material conditions instead of using billions to fund a fascist apartheid state’s genocide
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Oh so you don’t even hide being pro-genocide. Absolutely disgusting.
Even if the Jewish people of NY were monolithic in support for Israel, which they aren’t, that’s not an excuse to be pro-genocide.
Not to mention the over vast majority of all the other constituents that DO care about affordability and DON’T want to fund genocide.
oh wait, was i suppose to pretend the genocide doesn’t exist or something?
it doesn’t matter if they are monolithic or not, the ones with the money largely are.
follow the money.
Christian Zionists far outnumber Jewish Zionists. Conflating Zionism and Judaism is antisemitic.
No ordinary person benefits from genocide, Jewish or not. Only the capital owners, who are heavily invested in military profits. Which they would do on the basis of being a capital owner.
sorry what are we talking about now? now we are talking about Christian Zionists?
I thought we were talking about chuck schumers support as a senator of a state with the largest jewish population in the USA and why he gets lots of money for being pro israeli in that state?
He’s incredibly unpopular with his constituents
It’s Zionist lobbies that have paid him over 1.7 million
YOU were the one falsely claiming that he was funding Israel’s genocide because of the the Jewish population of NY
I’ve completely lost what your point is.
I don’t give a shit what the ones with money want. Well, not more than any other person. I also don’t give a shit if Schumer does care more. The point is that his take is absolute garbage.
He’s a literal neo-nazi or at least is co-opting neo-nazi dogwhistles to spread neo-nazi ideology. “follow the money” in reference to “the rich ones (jews)”
Bro deserves to be killed.
61% of american jews believe israel commit war crimes. You are just being antisemetic if you believe most american jews support Isrseli crimes. Chuck Schumer only support the jewish supermasists not regular jews