The two U.S. Senators from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman (D) and Dave McCormick (R), in a joint appearance on June 2, condemned anti-Semitism in America in the wake of two high-profile attacks targeting Jews in the country.
The comments came a day after an attack at a Jewish rally in Boulder, Colorado, that left eight people injured. Witnesses say the attacker yelled “Free Palestine” during the incident, the same slogan used by a shooter who killed two Israeli staffers outside a museum in Washington last week.
Fetterman said anti-Semitism is “out of control.”
“We’ve lost the argument in parts of my party—and for me, that moral clarity, it’s really firmly [with] Israel,” he said at a discussion with McCormick at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston. …