San Francisco Senator decries anti-Israel rally at San Francisco Jewish community gala

• Published date: 14 March 2024
• Author: MICHAEL STARR
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Wiener said that the event was a Jewish community event that featured many Jewish groups, community leaders, and houses of worship

"This targeting of a major Jewish community event comes on the heels of the targeting of a march against antisemitism that took place in SF a week ago. We're seeing an escalation where instead of simply protesting the war, protesters are also targeting Jews & their community organizations," Wiener said on Monday on social media. "People have every right to protest the war. I respect those protests. Protesting & targeting Jewish community gatherings, however, is a very, very different thing. It crosses a line."

Wiener said that the JCRC was founded in response to the antisemitism that led to the Holocaust, and since then it has worked to support the community and oppose antisemitism in the Bay Area and around the world.

Anti-Zionist activists protested

Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area rejected Wiener's statements as dishonest, as the protest was led by Jews to criticize JCRC's "racism" and Zionism.

"We gathered to protest SFJFRC because time & time it chooses the side of Israel in this ongoing genocide, maligned Palestinian...