The Issue: Reports of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s weak response to incidents of antisemitism on campus.
I may speak for only a minority of Jewish New Yorkers and Jewish Americans, but to me, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is not a “shomer” (guardian) of Jews, as he often likes to say (“Schu ripped as ‘traitor,’ ” Nov. 2).
Schumer is more of a quisling.
The report by the House Education and Workforce Committee that the former Columbia University president said he told officials “to keep heads down” and that only Republicans were making an issue of the antisemitic outrages at Columbia suggests that he should resign.
Jewish Americans do not need “leaders” like him.
Robert Semel
Brooklyn
Thanks to The Post for its repeated courage in reporting and commenting on the 325-page report from the House Education and Workforce Committees.
The paper exposed how American universities failed to protect Jewish students from pro-Hamas radicals after the October 7 pogrom (“Campus failed to protect Jewish students,” PostOpinion, Rikki Schlott, Nov. 2).
This article revealed the contemptible cowardice of elitist institutions like Columbia in appeasing sometimes violent activists who threatened and assaulted Jewish students and vandalized buildings, essentially without consequence.
No one but a low-information voter would vote for Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Sadly, there seem to be many of those in New York.
Stanley M. Rubin
Queens
This revelation has been a long time coming: The Post has exposed Schumer as a total fraud.
For years, since winking at former President Barack Obama’s support of the Iranian regime and its effort to develop a nuclear bomb, Schumer has pretended to be a supporter of Israel and the Jewish people.
But his comments to Columbia’s former leader have exposed his one true agenda: self-aggrandizement.
Jack Weinberg
Manhattan
Schumer is a phony, a political hack of the worst kind (“Shielding Antisemites,” Editorial, Nov. 2).
He is not the “protector” of the Jewish people.
His non-actions and silence regarding the surge of antisemitism on college campuses and among his peers since speak volumes.
Garry Wilbur
New Hyde Park
This makes me reflect on Schumer’s response to Oct. 7.
He has called out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the actions of the IDF.
He is nothing but a coward, bowing to leftists.
It is so disappointing that a senator from New York, the state with the largest Jewish population in this country, has turned his back on own people.
All New York Jews should remember this when he runs again for office.
Trust me, he will run again because these politicians never want to give up their power.
Philip Vallone,
Ossining
The latest revelation that Schumer advised Columbia to downplay its response to antisemititic incidents on Columbia’s campus would seem in character with his winking greenlight for Obama to bypass the Senate and ramming the “Iran deal” up America’s tochus at the United Nations (“Contemptible,” PostOpinion, Leil Leibovitz, Nov. 2).
It is also in line with his response on the heels of Oct. 7, when he was clamoring for regime change in Israel.
All this from the self-proclaimed guardian of the Jewish people?
Leonard Toboroff
Miami, Fla.
Why would it surprise anyone that Chuck Schumer sold out to the pro-Hamas lunatics at Columbia?
This is a man who, as a prominent Jewish leader, was nowhere to be found during the rise of antisemitic attacks throughout the city.
He is beholden to the lobbyists and unions that donate and prop up the Democratic Party.
He will always find a microphone to demand more money for his liberal projects, not the needs of his constituents.
The real tragedy is the sheep that are the majority in this pathetic city have continued to vote for him and likely always will.
Rob Cerone
Manhattan
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