Attack on Scott Wiener shows you can’t, and – Latest News
It’s been a tough weekend for Scott Wiener.
The California state senator, who’s hoping to substitute the retiring Nancy Pelosi in Congress later this yr, was heading over to San Francisco’s Trans March final Friday when he was circled by a gaggle of radicals, some sporting keffiyehs and overlaying their faces.
Yelling invectives and giving Wiener the finger, they accused the uber-progressive lawmaker — himself a homosexual man and one of the state’s simplest legislators on LGBTQ points — of being “terrible on Gaza.” At some level, one of the thugs taunted Wiener, who’s Jewish, about having “Israeli handlers.”
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is operating for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House seat. AP
A video of the ambush shows Wiener wanting surprised, and finally hurrying out of the park with out attending the march.
“When opposition and disagreement transition to harassment,” he mentioned later that day in a assertion, “including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line. We’re living in a time when violence is all too often threatened or used against people in public life. In San Francisco, we’re better than that.”
Except that, because the video of the assault so clearly shows, San Francisco isn’t higher than that, and neither, sadly, are the remaining of us.
Because more, possibly, than some other scuffle in latest reminiscence, the assault on Wiener confirmed simply how actually all-around damaged our political tradition has grow to be.
Let’s start with the thugs themselves.
“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of s–t,” shrieked one assailant, giving us the clearest peek we’ve had but into the minds of the so-called “pro-Palestine” crowd.
First, this assertion assumes that nothing else issues however the obsession with a battle unfurling hundreds of miles away. Not housing for poor people in Sacramento. Not health take care of working households in Fresno. Not the real-life issues of any actual, reside Americans — simply “Palestine,” or, more precisely, a burning hatred for Israel.
Second, the assault on Wiener gave us proof, as if any additional proof have been needed, that you can by no means fulfill the bloodlusty lunatics on the left. Wiener had already publicly succumbed to his occasion’s most raging radicals. Earlier this yr, he deserted his beforehand ever-so-slightly nuanced place on the battle — one which put at the least some of the blame on Hamas and its marketing campaign of rapes and massacres — and declared Israel guilty of “genocide.”
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Following widespread condemnations from California Jews of all stripes, Wiener stepped down because the co-chair of the state’s Jewish Caucus. None of that was practically enough for the hordes cornering him on Friday.
Why?
Because “pro-Palestine” is just a barely more nice time period for rabid Jew-hatred. The goons poking their fingers at Wiener weren’t protesting any of his insurance policies or positions. They have been merely having enjoyable beating up on a Jew, simply as their non secular ancestors in Berlin had achieved not even a century in the past.
And they’re hardly outliers. From New York’s mayor, who has referred to pro-Israel advocates as “monsters,” to our soon-to-be congresswoman, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended a pro-Hamas rally on October 8, 2023, the Democratic Party is now the occasion of bigotry, violence, and hate.
Which, sadly, doesn’t imply that Wiener himself is an harmless sufferer right here. Cowardice and complacency aren’t minor character flaws. And it doesn’t take a significantly sensible pupil of historical past to appreciate that you can by no means, ever appease the revolutionaries: All you can do is buy your self a little more time earlier than they put you, too, up towards a wall.
Wiener realized his lesson the onerous method Friday. But scores of Jewish Democrats, all of them remarkably silent within the face of this hostile takeover of their occasion by a band of maniacs, are nonetheless shying away from confrontation, maintaining mum and hoping that the hordes will spare them by some means.
News flash for Chuck Schumer, et al.: They gained’t.
Finally, watching Wiener flee, haggard and humiliated, too many conservatives cheered, delighted by the spectacle of the left eating its own. This, too, should stop. We solely have two political events in America, and when one will get consumed by the type of savages who assume nothing of roughing up an opponent just because he’s Jewish, we’re in deep, deep hassle.
Kicking these benighted savages out of the Democratic Party, out of politics, and, every time potential, out of America is a tall order. Here’s hoping it’s one that may nonetheless deliver all sane Americans collectively, no matter their partisan affiliation.
