Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is under pressure to confirm many of Biden’s nominees before Republicans take power in January — but if Democrats want to show they’ve learned the need to place principles before power. , they will take the time to vote in the room to adopt the bipartisan project Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.

Schumer is reportedly eager to break Mitch McConnel’s record for judicial confirmations in a single four-year term, and Democrats generally hope to push the nation’s courts as far to the left as possible before the Republican Party begins to push them back.

This is all a bit selfish and partisan, although normal in politics.

But that doesn’t make the suppression of the anti-Semitism bill any less scandalous.

It is their fault that the measure is still waiting to be adopted.

The House passed it in May, by an overwhelming majority: 320-91.

Schumer is stalling because the left of his party opposes him and liberals have been obsessed all year with not offending anti-Israel voters.

The bill would direct the federal Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws.

As campuses once again welcome all manner of “anti-Zionist” activism, the cause is urgent. Universities need to know that they have got stop turning a blind eye to thinly disguised hatred of Jews.

Yet Schumer reportedly only vowed (privately) to pass it as an addendum to a larger, must-pass bill – which significantly weakens the moral signal.

The IHRA definition traces the obvious connection between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, a connection that too many Democrats have sought to obscure since the Hamas terrorist massacres of October 7 more than a year ago.

These monstrous events sparked a wave of support across the country – support for their bloody perpetrators and their Iranian masters, accompanied by many downright anti-Semitism.

And Schumer, while he certainly condemned Jew hatred, struggled to appease his enemies – even denouncing Benjamin Netanyahu of the Senate as the main obstacle to peace, as if Iran and its proxies would play along if the Israelis chose another leadership.

This self-proclaimed shomer – Hebrew for guardian – of the Jewish people now has a chance to redeem themselves.

Show some courage, Chuck, and do the right thing. This bill is morally necessary; its delay of several months is absurd.

Especially after the Amsterdam pogrom, proving once again that Jew haters themselves do not make such clear distinctions between the Jewish state and Jews in general.

And – rarely for moral necessity – it could prove politically invaluable, given the numbers suggesting Kamala Harris suffered a hemorrhage of Jewish support on November 5.

If Schumer truly wants to live up to his oft-used pun on his name and be a guardian of the Jews, he needs to put this bill up for a floor vote: If it passes with overwhelming bipartisan support, it will send a clear message. message that America is done with institutions that play coy in the face of Jewish hatred.