Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he will introduce a bill to confront antisemitism.
"This trash should be the easiest thing in the world for every person in a leadership position to call out. But, perhaps because Israel has become a strangely controversial issue on the far left, the condemnations do not seem to be flowing quite as easily and unequivocally as they should," he said.
McConnell quoted a tweet from Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota in calling on progressives to condemn antisemitism.
"I'll say the quiet part out loud. It's time for 'progressives' to start condemning anti-semitism and violent attacks on Jewish people with the same intention and vigor demonstrated in other areas of activism," his
tweet reads. "The silence has been deafening."