Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Blasts ‘Hateful’ Trump For Saying Jewish People Who Vote For Democrats ‘Hate Israel’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized Donald Trump for saying that any Jewish person voting for Democrats “hates their religion.”

Trump was recently asked on a podcast hosted by his former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast, about the criticism from the Biden administration and Schumer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I actually think they hate Israel,” he claimed. “I don’t think they hate him, I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel.”

“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” he added. “They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”

Trump slammed Schumer, who recently condemned Netanyahu’s government and demanded new elections in a speech on the Senate floor about Israel’s war on Hamas and the subsequent humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“Don’t forget, when you see those Palestinian marches, even I – I’m amazed at how many people are in those marches – and guys like Schumer see that, and to him, it’s votes,” Trump declared. “I think it’s votes more than anything else because he was always pro-Israel. He’s very anti-Israel now.”

The majority leader of the U.S. Senate responded to these remarks.

“To make Israel a partisan issue only hurts Israel and the U.S.-Israeli relationship,” Schumer stated in an X post. “Trump is making highly partisan and hateful rants.”

“I am working in a bipartisan way to ensure the U.S.-Israeli relationship sustains for generations to come, buoyed by peace in the Middle East,” he continued.

Biden’s administration and presidential campaign replied immediately to Trump’s comments on Monday.

“As antisemitic crimes and acts of hate have increased across the world – among them the deadliest attack committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust – leaders have an obligation to call hate what it is and bring Americans together against it,” Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the White House, said in a statement. “There is no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. None.”

Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer also issued a response.

In a statement, Singer said that the “only person who should be ashamed here is” Trump who “openly demeans Jewish Americans and reportedly thinks Adolf Hitler ‘did some good things.'”

This was about when Trump’s former White House chief of staff, General John Kelly, recounted that the former president admired Hitler for having “rebuilt the economy” and even appreciated his hold on senior Nazi officers.

“Accusing Jews of hating their religion because they might vote for a particular party is defamatory & patently false,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in an X post. “Serious leaders who care about the historic US-Israel alliance should focus on strengthening, rather than unraveling, bipartisan support for the State of Israel.”