New York Democrats are turning on the Obama administration for refusing to veto a resolution condemning Israel at the UN and then giving Secretary of State John Kerry free rein to attack the Jewish state.

“Secretary Kerry’s speech was not constructive and compounds last week’s bad decision to allow the UN Security Council resolution to pass,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement on Thursday.

Also Thursday, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx) told “Fox & Friends,” “What Secretary Kerry did was just beat up on Israel in a disproportionate way, sort of gloss over the terrorism the Palestinians have used all those years.

He added, “The timing is curious — the fact that they’re [Obama administration officials] leaving office in a few weeks.”



Likewise, the incoming Democratic leader in the Senate, Charles Schumer blasted the nation’s top diplomat for the speech he gave Wednesday.

“While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” Schumer said.

Kerry’s speech took Israel to task for building settlements on disputed land.