'Antisemitism explodes in ways we’ve never seen': Schumer warns of rising hate in the US
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Most senior Jewish-American official condemns the UN’s Gaza genocide claims in a new book and says he has no faith in the international body; Senator is now facing Democratic backlash

“There was an incident on the New York subway and a bunch of people got on, protesters or whatever, and said, ‘All the Zionists, get off.’ When the head of the Brooklyn Museum, who was Jewish, but the Brooklyn Museum had nothing to do with Israel or taking positions on Israel — her house is smeared in red paint. That’s antisemitism. And a lot of the slogans that people use either are or slide into antisemitism.”

“The one that bothers me the most is genocide,” Schumer added. “Genocide is described as a country or some group tries to wipe out a whole race of people, a whole nationality of people. So if Israel was not provoked and just invaded Gaza and shot at random Palestinians, Gazans, that would be genocide. That’s not what happened. In fact, the opposite happened. And Hamas is much closer to genocidal than Israel.

Schumer also sharply criticized the UN for using the term “genocide” when describing the war in Gaza. “The U.N. has been anti-Israel, antisemitically against Israel. [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan was my idol. He became famous when in 1976 [it was 1975] they tried to pass a resolution, Zionism is racism.

  • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
    09·
    18 hours ago

    I’m not there to see for myself, but it’s not as straightforward as the headlines sound. Here’s what I mean, from BBC from when this recent blockade began three weeks ago:

    A statement from Netanyahu’s office said: "With the end of Phase 1 of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks - to which Israel agreed - Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease.

    “Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages. If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.”

    Aid agencies confirmed that no aid trucks had been allowed into Gaza on Sunday morning.

    Thousands of trucks entered the Gaza Strip each week since the ceasefire was agreed in mid-January.

    Aid agencies have managed to store supplies, which means there is no immediate danger to the civilian population from this morning’s Israeli decision.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4w99je78o

    From January:

    The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 897 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, citing information it received from Israel and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement - the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

    This compares with 630 on Sunday and 915 on Monday. The truce deal requires at least 600 truckloads of aid to be allowed into Gaza every day of the initial six-week ceasefire, including 50 carrying fuel. Half of those trucks are supposed to go to Gaza’s north, where experts have warned famine is imminent

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-says-897-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-tuesday-2025-01-21/

    That second article is from January 2025, and KeepOnStalin and anti-western media have been spamming articles about how imminent the famine is since November of of 2023. Does the rote death toll reflect a widespread catastrophic famine when 99/100 people in Gaza have survived?

    Even while thousands of trucks poured in every week, KeepOnStalin posted the same five articles over and over about genocidal Israel is.

    Point is, it’s just not as straightforward as the headlines and KeepOnStallin make it sound. Nuance is hard.

    • the_three_tomatoes@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      The stuff you just quoted sounds pretty straightforward. Israel is withholding necessary aid from innocent people with no date to turn it back on. If Gazan needs hundreds of aid trucks a day, does it matter how much they were able to store? The storages would not last more than a week. It has been WEEKS!! Also I read that Israel caused destruction or power outages to the water purification facilites… how do you explain that? You can’t.