[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 19, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2423]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                 Israel

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I would like to begin today by addressing 
the reprehensible and dangerous comments made yesterday by former 
President Trump. The former President's comments were utterly 
disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of anti-Semitism facing 
Jews, pushing the dangerous anti-Semitism trope of dual loyalty. To say 
you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view 
over the other is sick. It is hateful. It is unadulterated anti-
Semitism, and it serves to use Israel as a political wedge, further 
damaging the bonds between the United States and Israel.
  We have always tried--I have always tried through the years--to keep 
everything we do on Israel bipartisan. And to use it for partisan 
purposes hurts Israel, hurts America, and displays how low Donald Trump 
would go.
  And nobody who breaks bread with anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and 
who called White supremacists in Charlottesville ``very good people'' 
or who, as was recently reported, said, disgustingly, that Hitler did 
some good things has any right--any right--to lecture Jewish Americans 
about their personal political beliefs.
  I condemn the former President's irresponsible comments and urge 
others from both sides--both sides--to do the same.