Schumer’s Park Slope ‘rabbi’ is a determined anti-Israel activist

The media decided to defend Sen. Schumer’s attack on Israel — in which he calls to spare Hamas and create a terrorist state — by rushing out his “rabbi,” Rachel Timoner, to claim that “he said what most of us think” and “what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each other.”

“There’s been a real fear in the American Jewish community of criticizing Israel,” she told Politico. “He did something so great in breaking that silence.”

Timoner is an activist with such anti-Israel groups as J Street and T’ruah and co-founded the New York Jewish Agenda leftist organization alongside Sharon Kleinbaum (wife of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten), who faced an exodus from her “temple” (Manhattan’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah) after saying Kaddish for Hamas terrorists.

Bringing out Timoner, the clergywoman of the leftist Congregation Beth Elohim near Schumer’s home in Park Slope, doesn’t help him. It reveals how bad he really is.

“Schumer has attended Timoner’s synagogue … for at least a decade,” Politico reported. “Timoner officiated [at] his daughter’s wedding, blessed his three grandchildren and buried his father.”

Let’s take a look at what Rachel Timoner has been up to.

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Timoner took part in a recent anti-Israel “ceasefire” rally while whining that “continued war and Israeli occupation of Gaza will be an unmitigated disaster.”

She signed on to a letter by the T’ruah anti-Israel hate group which claimed that “there is no military solution” and demanded that Biden “ensure that Israel does not invade Rafah” and finish off Hamas.

In the past, Timoner had signed on to a T’ruah/J Street letter defending BDS.

Timoner, the author of op-eds such as “Fellow Dykes: We Must Be Both Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine,” tries to have it both ways, but she picked her side.

The side of those who murder Jews.

This is what Schumer embraced as his guiding spiritual light.

A mere few weeks after the Hamas atrocities, Timoner was already scolding Israel in a sermon, warning that “killing thousands of Palestinian civilians will not bring back the Israeli civilians.”

She repeated the same message in a New York Times op-ed.

T’ruah summed up Timoner’s remarks at one anti-Israel rally as, “American Jews must tell our government we oppose this war and want an end to the occupation and a real political solution for Palestinians and Israelis.”

That’s the message Sen. Schumer took to the Senate. It’s not the message of American Jews, but of their leftist and Islamist enemies.