Schumer wary of anti-Israeli sentiment

New York Senator Chuck Schumer says Zionist-minded Jews can never put the fate of Israel in the hands of Europe in any way amid growing anti-Israeli sentiment in the continent.

Speaking at the Israeli American Council’s 2016 National Israeli American Conference, New Schumer lambasted efforts to delegitimize and boycott Israel and slammed the BDS movement as a modern form of what he called “anti-Semitism.”

“Those who call for boycotts of Israel… are practicing whether they know it or not - a modern form of anti-Semitism.”

Schumer admitted that Europeans “ultimately don’t believe” in a “Jewish state” in the Middle East.

“We need to make that argument loudly and strongly and go against the BDS movement,” he said.

Schumer also applauded the governors of New York and California for passing anti-BDS legislation.