WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen issued the following press release:
Yesterday, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Senator Rosen called out Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over his use of an antisemitic trope against the media and Democrats. Hegseth has repeatedly used the term "Pharisees," a deeply problematic term that has been used historically to depict Jewish communities as hypocritical or morally corrupt.
As co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, Senator Rosen has made it her priority to fight antisemitism, wherever and whenever it happens. She successfully pushed (https://www.rosen.senate.gov/2025/11/21/rosen-successfully-pushed-coast-guard-to-reverse-course-on...