Chuck Schumer labeled traitor after damning report reveals he quietly advised Columbia leaders to ignore criticism of campus antisemitism

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is being slammed as a traitor following damning claims he instructed administrators at Columbia University to dismiss any criticism of the school’s handling of blatant violence and antisemitism on campus in the wake of Hamas’ Oct.7, 2023, massacre in Israel.The GOP-lead House Education and Workforce Committee in a 325-page report contended the New York Democrat advised then-university president Minouche Shafik that the school would be spared any scrutiny by Democrats, explaining the elite university’s “political problems are really only among Republicans.”His staff then encouraged Columbia administrators that the “best strategy is to keep heads down,” according to the report.“The self-proclaimed protector of the Jewish people.

Chuckey Schumer is nothing but a kapo traitor.He should be ashamed of himself,” said former Brooklyn state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat-turned-Republican who heads the group Americans Against Antisemitism.“He is a traitor to America.

He is a traitor to the Jewish people.Shame on him! This is what the Democratic Party has become.”The report came after the committee’s months-long investigation into the handling of anti-Israel protests earlier this year on 11 college campuses, including Columbia, Harvard University, Yale University and Northwestern University.Private emails and text messages of university leaders, including Shafik, who resigned in August, were among the documents reviewed by the committee.A spokesman for Schumer insisted the report “is not accurate.”“Senator Schumer regularly and forcefully condemned anti-Semitic acts at Columbia and elsewhere saying ‘when protests shift to antisemitism, verbal abuse, intimidation, or glorification of Oct.

7 violence against Jewish people, that crosses the line.’ He conveyed this point publicly and to administrators privately,” his spokesman told The Post.According to the report, Columbia trustees ridiculed the comm...