WASHINGTON — The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S. has condemned as “sickening” Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s antisemitic comments about the Ukraine invasion.
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Russia is fooling no one by trying to justify its brutal invasion of Ukraine with a “deranged conspiracy theory” against the Jewish people. Schumer, a New York Democrat, is the U.S. Senate’s first Jewish majority leader.
“I have only one word for this: Sickening,” Schumer said in the Senate.
Lavrov was asked during an interview over the weekend with an Italian news channel about Russian claims that it invaded Ukraine to “denazify” the country — a seemingly confusing position since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish.
Lavrov suggested falsely that Jewish people themselves are “the biggest antisemites.” Schumer said he condemned Lavrov’s comments in the strongest possible way.
“You’re fooling no one,” Schumer said. “The crimes of Russia are as plain as day for the world to see.”
It would be nice if he’d condemn anti semitic statements coming from members of his own party once in a while.
Did chucky aguda schumer condemn Ilhan omar?
wow what rock did schumer crawl out from?
We see clearly from the comments that blast Schumer rather than Lavrov that some Jews are a fifth column working for anti-Semites.