Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind charged Monday that the failure of fellow Democrats to routinely denounce anti-Semitism led basketball superstar LeBron James to post an offensive song lyric about “Jewish money.”

On Saturday, James posted an image of himself in a Los Angeles Lakers sweater with a lyric from the song by hip-hop artist 21 Savage that said: “We been getting that Jewish money / everything is Kosher.”

The next day, James apologized.

“Apologies, for sure, if I offended anyone. That’s not why I chose to share that lyric. I always [post lyrics]. That’s what I do. I ride in my car, I listen to great music, and that was the byproduct of it,” James told ESPN after his Lakers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.

“So, I actually thought it was a compliment, and obviously it wasn’t through the lens of a lot of people. My apologies. It definitely was not the intent, obviously, to hurt anybody.”

Hikind charged that James might have had second thoughts before posting the anti-Jewish lyric if fellow elected officials spoke out more forcefully about anti-Semitism.

“Once again, I call on fellow Democrats to open their mouths. So far, there’s been no outcry—just a whimper. If these slurs came from the political Right, they’d be tagged for what they are: classical anti-Semitism without even the smokescreen of an anti-Israel agenda. Wake up, fellow Democrats. We need one standard for everyone. As Dr. Martin Luther King warned us, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’” Hikind wrote on Facebook.