Chuck Schumers betrayal: Letters to the Editor Nov. 7, 2024

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 SemelBrooklynThanks 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.

RubinQueensThis 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 WeinbergManhattanSchumer is a phony, a political hack of the worst kind (“Shielding Antisemites,” Editorial, Nov.

2).He is not the “protector” ...