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Schumer: Lavrov’s comments on antisemitism ‘just sickening’
The Russian foreign minister said on Sunday that Jews are ‘the biggest antisemites’
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) calls on reporters following the Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on April 26, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
In his opening remarks on the Senate floor on Monday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments accusing Jewish people of perpetrating antisemitism.
Lavrov claimed in an interview on Italian television...