During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) criticized anti-Israel protests outside the Nova Exhibit in New York City.
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00:00 Last Friday, Mr. President, I had the opportunity to visit the NOVA exhibit in New York City,
00:08 downtown on Wall Street. The exhibit documents what happened on October 7th.
00:18 Thousands of beautiful young people gathered as the sun was setting to a music festival.
00:25 And when you go into the exhibit, the first thing you see is thousands of young people dancing
00:32 and embracing each other and happy as could be. Young people, beautiful in the prime of their lives,
00:38 the sun shining on them as it was setting, only to realize what had happened.
00:44 The rest of the exhibit documents the brutal murder of these young people, innocent, happy young people,
00:52 with so much of their lives in front of them. We see vicious Hamas terrorists machine-gunning them,
01:01 brutalizing them, and we hear interviews that are done by the families and those who were there.
01:10 So it was a wrenching experience. The contrast, the exhibit was so well done,
01:17 of those beautiful young people happily enjoying life and then knowing that hundreds of them
01:24 would be slain brutally, scores of them would be kidnapped by terrorists, running away in fear.
01:38 What was even worse, or at least adding salt into the wounds, was that just a day or two after I visited the exhibit,
01:52 protesters gathered outside the exhibit, chanting repugnant anti-Semitic phrases,
02:01 donning banners that read "Long live October 7th" and "The Zionists are not Jews and not humans."
02:12 How low can you go? Having visited the exhibit and seeing those young people,
02:20 then knowing and seeing on film what happened to them at the vicious hands of Hamas,
02:28 then having people come outside and protest and say "Long live October 7th."
02:39 "Zionists are not Jews and not humans." How repugnant, how despicable.
02:46 How terribly unnerving that humanity could sink that low.
02:54 It is the lowest of low for anyone to protest an exhibit dedicated to honoring the memory of precious lives
03:01 that were brutally murdered by Hamas.
03:04 It is sick that anyone should show up at an exhibit like this to protest.
03:12 The protest and the vitriolic rhetoric outside the Nova exhibit were nothing short of despicable,
03:22 inhumane, and anti-Semitic.
03:26 Anti-Semitism, like what occurred outside the Nova Music Festival exhibition,
03:32 has no place in our city, in our state, or in America.
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