cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42579679
Jon Queally
Feb 02, 2026Progressive critics of Senate Minority Chuck Schumer had fresh reasons to speak out Sunday after the powerful New York Democrat said that “one of many of [his] jobs” in the US Senate was to fight for ongoing taxpayer-funded military and financial assistance to the Israeli government, a position that has been the focus of growing protest among rank-and-file party members and the public at large in the face of Israel’s brutal genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
“I have many jobs as [Senate] leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs,” Schumer said at a gathering of Jewish leaders and community members in New York on Sunday.
According to Jacob Kornbluh, who provided footage of the remarks while reporting for The Forward, Schumer told the audience that his support for Jewish security funding will only continue growing under his leadership, calling it his “baby.”
Its gonna be real fun when more people figure out that the reasons AIPAC isn’t required to register as a foreign lobbying group go all the way back to ‘the whole Bay of Pigs thing’, as Nixon put it.
… Israel kickstarted its nuclear program by stealing fissile material from the US.
And then the investigation into that kinda just… stopped happening, petered out for some reason, and then for the longest time we just had this weird sort of standard where… everyone was ‘pretty sure’ Israel had nukes, but ‘couldn’t 100% be certain’.
Sorta like how the Epstein investigations had been… you know, going on for like two decades, and we didn’t really hear too much about it untill everyone involved fucked up unimaginably badly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair
And then of course there’s the USS Liberty Incident which recently got Ben Shapiro to be extremely defensive about, treating the whole thing as definitevly decided to be a genuine accident, when you have a long history of lots of directly invovled and highly informed relevant people believing precisely the opposite, that it was orchestrated to try to draw the US directly into the Six Day War…
You know, like… some kind of half century + long cover up, or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident