Scott Wiener’s fate is the state of the Democratic – Latest News
Scott Wiener was harassed — twice — in San Francisco this week by activists who confronted him in an aggressive and, frankly, horrifying method.
The motive? The activists say that Wiener has the fallacious place on Israel.
The state senator was focused on Wednesday at a bar the place a crazed activist tried to pressure him to say “Free Palestine,” and demanded that he depart the Mission District neighborhood.
Scott Wiener makes his means down Market Street during the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 28 in San Francisco. Getty Images
Then, on Friday, he was mobbed by activists at Dolores Park earlier than the Trans March. One shouted: “You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel,” including an expletive. He was escorted out.
The irony: Wiener modified his place on Israel in January, bowing to stress from left-wing activists. He mentioned that he now agreed that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza after all.
It’s an absurd place. There has been a ceasefire in Gaza for months. And even during the struggle — which was began by Palestinian terrorists — Israel supplied humanitarian assist to Gaza.
But Wiener, who is each homosexual and Jewish, confronted a robust problem in the main for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. So he needed to undertake the new left-wing dogma, even when he needed to realize it isn’t true.
The irony: It wasn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough.
Wiener stays a goal, though he modified his thoughts, as a result of he is Jewish.
Wiener, who is each homosexual and Jewish, confronted a robust problem in the main for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. Senator Scott Wiener, /X
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The state senator was focused on Wednesday at a bar the place a crazed activist tried to pressure him to say “Free Palestine.” @HenMazzig/X
Mayor Daniel Lurie pulled no punches in his response: “The language directed at Sen. Wiener yesterday was targeted, hateful, and antisemitic,” he mentioned.
But Wiener’s colleagues in the State Senate averted the apparent. They merely known as the “hatred and violence” towards Wiener “unacceptable,” and cited his file on LGBTQ+ points.
They didn’t condemn the antisemitism on show. They can’t, as a result of antisemitism is rising quickly in the Democratic Party, simply because it is on the excessive proper.
Some critics blamed Wiener himself, noting that he has typically used aggressive language to focus on these with whom he disagrees.
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated final yr, for instance, Wiener — who had argued with Kirk online — mentioned that whereas his homicide ought to be “condemned,” Kirk was additionally a “vile bigot who did immeasurable harm to so many people.”
Wiener is now being handled the means he handled others.
That doesn’t make it proper, nevertheless it does show the folly of cancel tradition.
It additionally paints a sorry image of the Democratic Party immediately, the place hating Jews is the new norm.
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