Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's recent Senate floor speech, criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calling for new elections in Israel, has been labeled as "overt election interference" by some analysts. Schumer, citing his deep Jewish faith and concerns over Netanyahu's policies, including the bombing and starving of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, expressed fears that Israel could become a pariah state under Netanyahu's leadership. This has sparked a complex reaction, with Schumer's watershed speech leading to deteriorating relations between Netanyahu and the Democratic Party. In response, Netanyahu is slated to address Senate Republicans via video, highlighting the partisan nature of U.S.-Israel relations. Furthermore, House Speaker Mike Johnson has had a conversation with Netanyahu, reflecting the deep political divisions this issue has caused.
Faced with an increasingly recalcitrant Netanyahu government, Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues are leading a welcome shift in policy. Both Israel and the U.S. have a moral obligation to do better | Opinion | John Rosove & @RavElliott https://t.co/Ry7UOPh17c
A week after Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) chastised Netanyahu amid mounting criticism from Democrats of Israel’s war in Gaza, congressional Republicans are seeking to amplify their party’s unconditional loyalty to the Jewish state. https://t.co/AEJfAo6t8V
netanyahu did a zoom with the republican senators https://t.co/xxiKTeT3iN
Schumer's call for 'regime change' in Israel is Biden policy move @WashTimesOpEd https://t.co/dIT2bUff7A
Netanyahu blasts Schumer’s ‘outrageous’ speech in meeting with Senate Republicans https://t.co/9nxJbPrlsi https://t.co/hSz0HglICz
.@SenSchumer rejects Netanyahu’s request to address Senate days after blistering speech about Israeli leader https://t.co/4uPEBoW2Rd https://t.co/4uPEBoW2Rd
Netanyahu Assails Schumer, Dramatizing Partisan Split Over Israel via @NYTimes https://t.co/iMiOczYbp3
The prime minister spoke to Republicans via video link nearly a week after the Senate's Democratic majority leader, Chuck Schumer, gave a Senate speech branding Netanyahu an obstacle to peace and urging new elections in Israel. https://t.co/NZUimNeqg1
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer denied a request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to hold a video call with Senate Democrats about the crisis in the Middle East and Israel's handling of the war with Hamas. https://t.co/zGKri07Jao
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer met with major American Jewish organizations to discuss and defend his recent call for early elections in Israel to replace Netanyahu @Conf_of_Pres's William Daroff (@Daroff) shares details with i24NEWS’ @natasharaquel_ https://t.co/fuvlBs8ChB
How do Jewish groups feel about Schumer’s combative Israel speech? It’s complicated | Haaretz Today | @Bsamuels0 https://t.co/4a7vjJWyzv
How does the US Jewish establishment really feel about Chuck Schumer's watershed speech calling for Israel elections? His call with a major umbrella organization, and the backlash over its statement afterward, shows the key takeaway: it's complicated https://t.co/CpQDwKMVgu
Netanyahu addresses Senate Republicans days after Schumer calls for his ouster https://t.co/TB0DHSpWkW
Speaker Johnson Mulls Inviting Netanyahu To Address Congress After Schumer's Blistering Words https://t.co/7EaC9BV3nr
Netanyahu told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that invading Rafah is necessary to defeat Hamas — and criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's call for Israeli elections as "wholly inappropriate” W/ @stephen_neukam @BarakRavid https://t.co/uDuWbvVphS
My grandfather, Rabbi Avi Weiss, wrote a tremendous piece about @SenSchumer in the @NYDailyNews. My favorite bits: This is Schumer’s M.O. When voting with Israel, he looks to the right and left to make sure it’s the politically safe decision to make. His courage is often… https://t.co/G8QeRKzDqH
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US Republican senators via video linkup to their weekly policy lunch, a source said, days after the Senate's Democratic leader gave a speech harshly criticizing him as an obstacle to peace https://t.co/VH65RouRHj
Schumer and Netanyahu are in increasingly open conflict after the Senate majority leader criticized the Israeli prime minister's handling of the war in Gaza. https://t.co/IafNEA1s44
Senior Israeli official confirms to me Netanyahu asked Schumer to speak with democratic senators by video - but was refused, as reported by @PunchbowlNews
1) From colleague Tyler Olson. Israeli PM Netanyahu asked to speak to Senate Dems in addition to Republicans virtually today. Schumer declined -- saying discussions should be bipartisan.
A senior Israeli official confirms Netanyahu asked Schumer to conduct a video session with Senate Democrats but was turned down https://t.co/DzrWWczVR0
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu speaking to Republican Senator from Israel https://t.co/S77BX9jjIv
🕑 MIDDAY: Israelis asked Schumer to have bibi talk to caucus. https://t.co/QpYeYvH9nL
Johnson may invite Netanyahu to address Congress after Schumer comments https://t.co/HzJJQeRpqE
I’m pretty sure a Bibi joint meeting address needs Schumer’s signoff. A week ago I would have said he might worry about pressure to agree. Not so much this week. House Republicans mull inviting Netanyahu to address joint session of Congress https://t.co/UmD4lwgi7P.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Republican senators via a video conference on Wednesday — a move that comes days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Israel to hold a new election. https://t.co/hDyx1MZERD
Fresh off lecturing Chuck Schumer abt interfering in domestic politics, House GOPs and Netanyahu are discussing Bibi addressing a joint session of Congress to shit on Joe Biden https://t.co/ZRBQeLLlzc
Netanyahu's relations with Democrats are worsening by the hour, and the GOP is seizing the gap If Bibi addresses a joint session of Congress at House GOP's invitation, it'd be among the most partisan moments in the history of the U.S.-Israel relationship https://t.co/9Y68oOCrZA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak to Senate Republicans as tensions escalate between him and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) over the future of Israel and its war with Hamas in Gaza. https://t.co/cIu6o3t2TP https://t.co/fwAJi6DITX
And here we go: - House Speaker Mike Johnson has "lengthy" convo w/ Netanyahu rejecting Schumer's speech - Bibi set to address Senate GOP later today - House Republicans mull inviting him to address joint session of Congress 2015 can eat its heart out https://t.co/Z0vnr3qhXh
Speaker Johnson this morning telling reporters he spoke with Netanyahu this morning “and reiterated to him the House Republicans’ strong support for Israel” as well as “my strong disagreement with [Senate] leader Schumer about what he said last week” calling for new elections https://t.co/wV5vctbJf2
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tentatively scheduled to speak via video at a lunch gathering today of Senate Republicans. It comes nearly a week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, called for new elections in Israel. https://t.co/05ImKlPKRb
“It’s hard to find anyone who has been as pro-Israel as Schumer,” @EjDionne writes. “For him to split with Netanyahu so sharply and so publicly speaks to the profound change in opinion among Israel’s sympathizers since the Gaza war began.” https://t.co/r56wg1fVWe
⚠️ NETANYAHU TO ADDRESS U.S. REPUBLICAN SENATORS, AFTER SPEECH BY DEMOCRAT SCHUMER, SOURCE SAYS Full Story → https://t.co/YQXFV3bEW5 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address U.S. Republican senators via video linkup to their weekly policy lunch on Wednesday, a… https://t.co/0IdbLcd5TE
Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking elected Jewish official in American history, is no fair-weather friend of Israel. But he is also no progressive. What should Binyamin Netanyahu make of his landmark speech? https://t.co/V8I5oZuK6C 👇
Special Senate GOP Conference mtg today about future ldrshp elections amid McConnell’s retirement. Netanyahu to speak remotely to regular Senate GOP Conference mtg
Israeli Prime Minister #BenjaminNetanyahu will speak with Senate #Republicans via video, less than a week after the chamber’s top Democrat, #ChuckSchumer, called for elections to replace him. https://t.co/98wn9oTPci
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Republican senators via video on Wednesday, less than a week after Chuck Schumer called for new elections to replace him https://t.co/3DwxcixObO
"Schumer is the Biden administration’s useful court Jew, serving the administration by kashering their increasingly hostile pressure on Israel." Opinion by Pesach Wolicki: https://t.co/HD5yfYJm1a
Benjamin Netanyahu to speak with US Senate in snub to Biden after President praised Chuck Schumer's calls for Israeli Prime Minister to be 'ousted' https://t.co/jpQjelyjlv https://t.co/CRMtaxmLzb
Schumer defends call for Israel to replace Netanyahu in meet with US Jewish leaders https://t.co/Yn4VjB2456
Netanyahu slated to talk at Senate GOP lunch on Wednesday W/ @stephen_neukam https://t.co/sxAmNhlk1T
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tentatively scheduled to speak virtually to Senate Republicans during their regular lunch meeting Wednesday, two Senate sources familiar with the plan tell Axios. https://t.co/5XMRVQoPMc
Days after airing his outrage about Biden and Schumer interfering in Israel’s democracy, Netanyahu will address Senate Republicans tomorrow I believe this falls under what U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan deemed “an interesting irony” https://t.co/ACbPjsNqVq
🚨 BREAKING NEWS — @netanyahu tentatively scheduled to talk to @SenateGOP lunch tomorrow via video. Comes week after @SenSchumer called for his ouster. @LauraEWeiss16, @AndrewDesiderio and me.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations leadership met with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday, days after his controversial remarks from the Senate floor calling for new elections in Israel. https://t.co/N54kQI5KEe
Schumer mulled calling on Netanyahu to quit amid fears Israel will become a pariah state https://t.co/fJmFSyY6xu
Schumer doubles down on call for Israeli PM Netanyahu to be ousted. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/wzxEDhDv2Y
BREAKING: The leading Jewish communal umbrella organization in the US (Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) puts out tough statement criticizing Schumer -- hours after he spoke to the group's leadership on a Zoom. The statement: "We deeply appreciate…
Conference of Presidents releases statement after call with Schumer today, saying they appreciate him for reaching out to explain himself but “remain distressed that an American official would tell a sovereign, democratic ally when to conduct its electoral process.” https://t.co/kqeBifzFiU
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer "did not merely want to push for policy changes in Israel’s offensive in Gaza without calling out Mr. Netanyahu, whom he called 'the fount of the problems.'” https://t.co/0zd0ZhFsjw
This weekend, I sat down with the @NYTimes to talk about my address from the Senate floor. Take a read: “‘Part of My Core’: How Schumer Decided to Speak Out Against Netanyahu” https://t.co/iwwJ2F0cBn
BREAKING: US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he worries that under Netanyahu's leadership 'Israel would become such a pariah in the world and even in the United States'
The call comes days after Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, called for Israel to replace Mr. Netanyahu and hold new elections. https://t.co/ejWlLkEI2E
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says it was "his deep Jewish faith—and the moral imperative he feels to stand up for Jews and for Israel—that led him to speak out against Mr. Netanyahu" and his bombing and starving of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. https://t.co/0zd0ZhFsjw
Chuck Schumer tells @anniekarni about his watershed speech calling for new Israel elections: "I wrestled with myself — maybe I should say Bibi should step down" Schumer opted against it, but described Netanyahu "the fount of the problems" https://t.co/qjr54r7Xqt
LIVE UPDATES: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Schumer says he's worried that under Netanyahu, Israel would become a pariah state https://t.co/jghcNFgnu6
‘Part of My Core’: How Schumer Decided to Speak Out Against Netanyahu https://t.co/RAcyA6IoJE
Sen. Schumer's undemocratic dangerous anti-Israel diatribe @WashTimesOpEd https://t.co/c6ORWznWtR
“What has gone so haywire in the U.S.-Netanyahu relationship that it would drive someone as sincerely devoted to Israel’s well-being as Chuck Schumer to call on Israelis to replace Netanyahu ..?” A: Netanyahu https://t.co/Yjmxr71qdI
Binyamin Netanyahu has long frustrated American leaders. But he and other Israelis should not interpret Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech as just another bump in the often rocky road the allies have travelled since the founding of Israel https://t.co/7IJ5lj4tHj 👇
Schumer says out loud what Biden is thinking – and fearing about Netanyahu https://t.co/9lHG4xadJ9
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's fiery Senate floor speech in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for the Jewish state to hold new elections is "overt election interference," some political analysts say. https://t.co/qDPzJnd98L