Chuck Schumer's 'Antisemitism in America' warns of a resurgence in antisemitic views

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

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Sen. Chuck Schumer received major backlash from his party after supporting a Republican spending bill earlier this month – and some Democrats have called for him to resign from his position as minority leader. Schumer recently spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about that budget measure, prior to the ballots being cast, as part of a conversation about his new book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning. In the book, Schumer warns of an acceleration in antisemitism since 2017, a trend he says he's observed among the political right and left. In today's episode, Schumer joins Simon for a discussion that touches on the senator's criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the federal funding fight at Columbia University, and the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Senator Chuck Schumer is on the pod today.
0:07.6	He's been getting a lot of vociferous criticism lately over his vote for the Republican spending bill.
0:14.0	M.P. Scott Simon spoke to him before he cast that vote. And it's interesting to hear the
0:18.8	senator's tone of voice when he doesn't answer the question about how he intended to vote.
0:24.1	Because, of course, he was there to talk about his book, Antisemitism in America.
0:28.2	The subtitle is simply a warning because that's what he's trying to do,
0:32.0	alert people to the anti-Semitism he sees coming from both the political right and left.
0:37.0	Senator Schumer talks about that, the protests on college campuses, and his thoughts on the arrest
0:42.3	of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a green cardholder of Palestinian descent
0:47.2	whom the Trump administration is trying to deport.
0:50.6	That's after the break.
0:52.5	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
0:57.4	Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.
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1:16.8	I have to ask you a budget question.
1:18.7	Yeah.
1:19.1	Go ahead.
1:19.5	House has passed on to the Senate a bill that would avoid a government shutdown while spending more in the military.
1:25.0	It does allow Elon Musk to continue to defund major pieces of the federal
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