Schumer Endorses Anti-Israel DEI Champion For DNC Chair
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) endorsed the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, who supports the hard-Left anti-Semites of his party and is a devotee of DEI policies, to head the Democratic National Committee.
Schumer’s disingenuous behavior vis-à-vis Israel has been on display for years. Boasting that his last name closely resembles the Hebrew word “shomer,” which means to guard or protect, Schumer has bragged of his support for Israel despite his consistent betrayals of the Jewish state. He only voted against Barack Obama’s approval of the Iran nuclear deal after he knew it would pass without his vote; he was silent as vicious anti-Semitic actions took place across American universities (“A recent congressional report shows how he texted then-Columbia president Minouche Shafik telling her to keep her head down as the noise is only coming from Republicans,” JNS reported); he refused to bring an anti-Semitism bill to the Senate floor; and he brazenly tried to interfere in Israeli politics by declaring elections should be held to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying last March, in the middle of Israel’s desperate war against Hamas, “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.”
“As one of the best state party chairs in the country, Ben possesses all the qualities Democrats across the country are looking for in our next DNC Chair,” Schumer stated of Ben Wikler. “He’s a tenacious organizer — one of the best organizers in the country — a proven fundraiser, a sharp communicator, and able to reach out to all segments of the Democratic Party. Most importantly, he knows how to win.”
Wikler has “called on Democratic leaders to give a larger platform to the anti-Israel wing of the party, arguing that the DNC made a strategic error by rejecting speakers from the anti-Israel ‘Uncommitted’ movement at the convention last year, according to Jewish Insider,” The Washington Free Beacon noted. “In June, Wikler presided over the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s biannual convention, where members voted for a resolution to call for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and to axe any reference to the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that sparked the Israel-Hamas war.”
“On Wikler’s watch, the Wisconsin Democratic Party in 2021 updated its platform to call itself the ‘party of diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ urged the decriminalization of ‘dangerous drug use,’ and called to ‘reimagine policing and criminal justice,’” the Beacon pointed out. “In August 2020, Wikler said the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake during an arrest attempt should be ‘investigated, tried, and convicted.’ Wikler called the shooting a ‘symptom of the deadly disease of white supremacy and racism.’’
Blake had pulled a knife on police before he was shot.