San Francisco's Jewish community is outraged over a pro-Palestinian protest at a pumpkin carving event Saturday, hosted by State Senator Scott Wiener. Here's how protesters and the state senator are reacting.
San Francisco's Jewish community is outraged over a pro-Palestinian protest at a pumpkin carving event Saturday, hosted by State Senator Scott Wiener.San Francisco's Jewish community is outraged over a pro-Palestinian protest at a pumpkin carving event Saturday, hosted by State Senator Scott Wiener.
Video surfaced of the protesters descending on the Halloween event, chanting: "Wiener, Wiener, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide. We charge you with genocide."Hundreds of people came out to San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El for a special service to remember the victims of the October 7 attack on Israel.
"People can have whatever opinions they want to have about the war, about Israel, about anything," said State Senator Wiener on Sunday. "But to disrupt a pumpkin carving event for children - it crosses the line and it's sad that it's gotten to this." JCRC Bay Area says the anti-Semitic language that the protesters used made clear that he was targeted simply because he is Jewish."I'm tired of hearing that same argument again and again," said Jon Ramirez-Monaco, one of the protest organizers. "You cannot equate being against a government system with being antisemitic.""We're just really frustrated," he said. "It did get very heated yesterday, but people are very angry.
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