{"id":194684,"date":"2026-02-26T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:42:08","slug":"mayor-tax-the-jews-chant-at-sf-event-antisemitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194684\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor: ‘Tax the Jews\u2019 chant at SF event ‘antisemitic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a political event in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting \u201ctax the rich\u201d switched their chant to \u201ctax the Jews,\u201d San Francisco<\/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for San Franciscans,\u201d Lurie said of the event in a post to X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly antisemitic<\/a>,\u201d the Democratic mayor added.<\/p>\n

Lurie went on to state that he wouldn\u2019t tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hatred and that such bigotry did not belong in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The Jewish community of San Francisco has been targeted by a number of antisemitic acts over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

In December of last year, a dumpster outside the San Francisco Hillel was set on fire<\/a> in a suspected arson attack. An individual suspected of starting the blaze was later arrested.<\/p>\n

The fire initially broke out as the Hillel student team was inside the building, preparing for the final Shabbat of the term.<\/p>\n

A year earlier, the same Hillel was vandalized with the word \u201cKhaybar,\u201d<\/a> a term that refers to a location in modern-day Saudi Arabia where the Islamic prophet Mohammed led his followers in a war against Jews that ultimately resulted in massacres and expulsions.<\/p>\n

The chant \u201cKhaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed will return\u201d is commonly heard at anti-Israel protests and is seen by many as a threat of violence against Jews.<\/p>\n

Mathilda Heller and Michael Starr contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a political event in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting \u201ctax the rich\u201d switched their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3629,7,7624,101,103,102,104,106,105,1747,10977],"class_list":{"0":"post-194684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-diaspora","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}