Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish-American to ever serve as an elected official in the United States, warned of a “five-alarm fire” from rising antisemitism that must be “extinguished”, in a major speech from the Senate floor on Wednesday.
Mr Schumer, a New York Democrat who has represented the Empire State in the Senate since 1999, said he felt “compelled” to speak because of his status as the top-ranking Jewish elected official in the US.
