Jewish activists plan NYC protest against Schumer on day of his book launch: Double-speak and failure ot protect

Jewish activists are planning a protest against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when his book warning of antisemitism is released Tuesday — with them accusing him of failing to help stop antisemitism.The 74-year-old Jewish Democratic senator from New York is slated to release his tome “Antisemitism in America: A Warning” — as the critics prepare to congregate outside an Upper East Side synagogue to protest what they say is his failure to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act.“The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about Antisemitism is how to spread it,” Jewish activist Aliza Licht wrote in a statement.“The Jewish community will not allow Schumer to masquerade as the self-proclaimed ‘shomer of the Jews’ when he has fueled Antisemitism in America with his double-speak and failure to protect Jewish Civil Rights,” Licht said.Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, last year promised leaders in the community that he would attempt to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act to help curb antisemitism on campuses across the country.But the effort stalled over disagreements between him and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) about how to push it through.Schumer wanted it tacked onto legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act involving more money for the military, while Johnson sought for it to be a stand-alone vote, Axios reported.The antisemitism bill would require the federal Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism when looking into potential violations of civil-rights law.That definition cites examples of antisemitism as “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”Democrats have splintered over the propo...