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Source: https://conferenceofpresidents.org/press/jewish-leaders-respond-to-leader-schumer-speech/
Jewish Leaders Respond to Senator Schumer's Speech
(Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) Harriet P. Schleifer, Chair, and William Daroff, CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Tuesday: "The pro-Israel community and our membership continue to have deep reservations about Senator Schumer's speech on the Senate floor last week regarding impediments to peace between Israel and the Palestinians." "We believe that at a time when Israel is fighting an existential war, on the embers of the 1,200 innocents massacred on Oct. 7, it is not a time for public criticisms that serve only to empower the detractors of Israel, and which foster greater divisiveness, when unity is so desperately needed." "Our member organizations, representing the broad swath of American Jewry, remain distressed that an American official would tell a sovereign, democratic ally when to conduct its electoral process and assert that the U.S. should possibly 'play a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course.' In actuality, what is really needed is U.S. leverage to bolster and support the Jewish state in this time of need."