Jewish foes plan NYC protest against Schumer on day of his book launch: ‘Double-speak and failure ot protect’

Jewish activists are planning a protest against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when his book warning of antisemitism is released Tuesday — with them accusing him of failing to help stop antisemitism.

The 74-year-old Jewish Democratic senator from New York is slated to release his tome “Antisemitism in America: A Warning” — as the critics prepare to congregate outside an Upper East Side synagogue to protest what they say is his failure to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act.

“The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about Antisemitism is how to spread it,” Jewish activist Aliza Licht wrote in a statement.

“The Jewish community will not allow Schumer to masquerade as the self-proclaimed ‘shomer of the Jews’ when he has fueled Antisemitism in America with his double-speak and failure to protect Jewish Civil Rights,” Licht said.

Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, last year promised leaders in the community that he would attempt to pass the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act to help curb antisemitism on campuses across the country.

But the effort stalled over disagreements between him and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) about how to push it through. Schumer wanted it tacked onto legislation such as the National Defense Authorization Act involving more money for the military, while Johnson sought for it to be a stand-alone vote, Axios reported.

The antisemitism bill would require the federal Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism when looking into potential violations of civil-rights law.

That definition cites examples of antisemitism as “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”

Democrats have splintered over the proposed act, with some, such as Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish, raising free-speech concerns about the policy.

The proposed act has since been reintroduced in the Senate by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Tim Scott (R-SC).

The activists planning Tuesday’s demonstration against Schumer in Manhattan say they also are angry with his response to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil — something that has been paused by the courts.

Khalil, who has been staying in the US on a student visa, was a prominent student activist during the anti-Israel chaos that engulfed Columbia University last year.

Schumer denounced Khalil’s behavior but demanded that the Trump administration properly “articulate any criminal charges or facts that would justify his detention or the initiation of deportation proceedings against him.”

“I abhor many of the opinions and policies that Mahmoud Khalil holds and supports, and have made my criticism of the antisemitic actions at Columbia loudly known,” Schumer said on X in response to Khalil’s detention.

But “if the administration cannot prove he has violated any criminal law to justify taking this severe action and is doing it for the opinions he has expressed, then that is wrong, they are violating the First Amendment protections we all enjoy,” the senator said.

Schumer’s forthcoming book is intended to deliver a “warning” based on history about the consequences of letting the “world’s oldest hatred” to go “unchecked.

“Obviously, with the great increase of antisemitism since October 7, it’s not past,” Schumer told NPR about hatred against Jewish people in the US. “And we have to make sure we have to be vigilant and push against it, fight against it all the way.”

Schumer’s office did not return a Post request for comment.