"Likewise, Schumer skips over the Cold War, the Red Scare, and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Convicted of “conspiracy to commit espionage” for the Soviet Union, the Rosenbergs were executed at the start of shabbat on June 19, 1953. Six months before their murders, a CIA memo hoped that the couple would be convinced to “appeal to Jews in all countries to get out of the communist movement and seek to destroy it.” Their refusal sent them to the gas chamber, at the behest of a Jewish judge (Irving Kaufman) and attorney (Roy Cohn). In demonstrating that reactionary Jews choose domination over solidarity—even solidarity with “their own kind”—the Rosenberg case is a potent analogue to modern attacks on anti-Zionist Jews. And there is a potent throughline. Rosenberg prosecutor Roy Cohn was the right-hand man to Joseph McCarthy’s thoroughly antisemitic attacks against the left and would become an advisor to a young Donald Trump. Schumer, who writes of his college-years’ frustration with Students for a Democratic Society and other leftwing groups, took up the anticommunist mantle. He even donned a tux in 1979 to attend the fifty-second-birthday bash for Roy Cohn at the legendary Studio 54. None of that appears in Antisemitism in America. Instead, he writes that Robert Zimmerman changing his name to Bob Dylan is a poignant example of mid-twentieth century antisemitism." - Dan Berger, A Review of Senator Chuck Schumer's book Antisemitism in America: A Warning
