Chuck Schumer calls Russian foreign minister’s comments about Jews and Hitler ‘sickening’

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Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader and the most senior elected Jewish official in U.S. history, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claims that Hitler had Jewish blood and that Jews were prone to antisemitism were “sickening.”

“As the Russian army continues slaughtering civilians, Foreign Minister Lavrov did what many others who now reside in the dustbin of history have done before him — resort to antisemitism to defend his nation’s actions,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Monday on the Senate floor.

Schumer joined the near-universal condemnation of Lavrov’s remarks from Israeli leaders, Jewish groups and Holocaust remembrance institutions.