While Chuck Schumer accuses Trump of antisemitisim, he himself undermines Jewish safety

Every time Chuck Schumer, the top-ranking Jewish politician in America, gives a talk to a Jewish audience, he likes to share the following corny observation: My name, he says with a soft smile, means “guardian” in Hebrew, and my job is to protect the Jews.As anyone with a second-grade Hebrew education will tell you, the quip is grammatically ridiculous: a guardian is a shomer; Schumer means fennel.But even those of us who could forgive the gentleman from New York this bit of fakery should have nothing but contempt for his latest betrayal of the Jewish people: As The Post and others reported this week, Schumer was chatting privately with Minouche Shafik, Columbia University’s former and disgraced president, advising her to do absolutely nothing about the jaunty jihadists waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags on campus and assaulting their Jewish peers.We know this because the House Committee on Education and the Workforce just issued a 300-page report, the fruit of more than a year of interviews and more than 400,000 pages of internal documents reviewed, including the private messages of executives at Harvard, Columbia, Yale and the rest of our elite universities.One of the most damning bits of correspondence comes from Shafik, who resigned her post in August.Writing to the co-chairs of her school’s board of trustees, David Greenwald and Claire Shipman, Shafik reported that she had spoken with Schumer and that the senator had some reassuring words of advice.Schumer, Shafik relayed, “was very positive and supportive (and quite the storyteller) .

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He also said universities [sic] political problems are really only among Republicans.His staffer was of the view that best strategy is to keep heads down!”A Schumer spokesman called the report “flat-out false” and “hearsay.” And you may choose to believe that a university president, communicating in private, would make up, out of whole cloth, a statement and attribute it to a sitting senator.But, judging ...