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Scott Wiener Heckled Out of Trans March — And It's Antisemitism
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Jon Favreau sets the scene: Scott Wiener, the San Francisco state senator running for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat, was surrounded and berated by hecklers at the city's annual Trans March. The protesters accused him of betraying queers through his Israel positions and told him he had 'stopped being queer' the moment he started supporting Israel. Wiener ultimately left because the confrontation became physically unsafe. The irony is acute: per his own website, Wiener has publicly called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide (joining Bernie Sanders and Representative Balint as one of only three prominent Jewish elected officials to do so), never taken AIPAC money, voted no on military funding for Israel, and supports Palestinian statehood. Jon Lovett is direct [1] — Jon Favreau "San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener — who publicly called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide, never took AIPAC money, voted no on mil…" 52:45 : if you are following a Jewish elected official around a park yelling at him about his Zionist handlers because his position on Israel — which is that it committed a genocide — is insufficiently anti-Israel, then you are being an antisemite. Tommy Vietor adds that the people filming it make their own movement look bad, hand Fox News a forever clip about crazy Democrats, and achieved the opposite of their stated goal by making Wiener sympathetic. Jon Favreau says the right response from the broader left is to call it out — holding two ideas at once is entirely possible.
San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener — who publicly called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide, never took AIPAC money, voted no on military funding for Israel, and supports Palestinian statehood — was physically and verbally threatened by protesters at the city's annual Trans March. Jon Lovett called it plainly: following a Jewish elected official around because he's insufficiently anti-Israel is antisemitism.
San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener, who was heckled at the Trans March, has called Israeli actions in Gaza genocide, never taken AIPAC money, voted no on military funding for Israel, and supports Palestinian statehood.
