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Chuck Schumer Cannot Meet the Moment - In his new book on antisemitism, the minority leader offers a vision of progress without popular struggle that profoundly underestimates the Trump threat.

JL;DR SUMMARY Chuck Schumer's new book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning," has been released at a contentious moment, as its content and timing have led to criticism from within his own party. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpJewish IdentityPalestinian ConflictAmerican JewsCivil Rights MovementWhite NationalismChuck SchumerProgressive Critiques

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Twenty years earlier I was hearing schoolyard taunts on the streets of Brooklyn."
New York City, New York, United States
"Columbia should be much more robust in how they combat antisemitism."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"But although he participated in that movement as a student at Harvard, he writes mostly about his frustration with anti-war campus radicals."
Washington DC, United States
"Trumps response to the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville"

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