{"id":378874,"date":"2026-06-29T03:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:03:14","slug":"ca-state-senator-physically-verbally-harassed-at-pride-parade-for-israel-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378874\/","title":{"rendered":"CA state senator physically, verbally harassed at pride parade for Israel stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

California State Senator Scott Wiener was harassed for his stance on Gaza during the San Francisco Trans March<\/a> on Friday, to the point where it was no longer safe for him to remain, Wiener said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A group of people were so \u201cphysically and verbally aggressive that it was impossible for me to safely remain in the park,\u201d Wiener stated, adding that this was the first time he did not participate in the march.<\/p>\n

Wiener was surrounded by people who made statements about his \u201cIsraeli handlers, among many other inaccurate, extreme, and vile statements,\u201d Wiener said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe f***ing hate you. You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel,\u201d one person yelled in a video later shared on social media.<\/p>\n

Wiener stated that while he has no objection to anyone disagreeing, opposing, or protesting him, the \u201charassment<\/a>, including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn San Francisco, we\u2019re better than that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mayor Daniel Lurie made a statement on X\/Twitter condemning the harassment<\/a>, calling the language used \u201ctargeted, hateful, and antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, we welcome disagreement and respectful dialogue around issues many of us feel passionately about – but we cannot allow harassment and threats of violence,\u201d Lurie wrote.<\/p>\n

The California<\/a> State Senate Democratic Caucus also released a statement on X, condemning the hate Wiener received.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe harassment and violence shown from yesterday\u2019s march in San Francisco towards Senator Scott Wiener is unacceptable and must be called out,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

The caucus also pointed to Wiener\u2019s work on legislation \u201cadvancing the rights and protections for Transgender, Gender Expansive and Intersex people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CA Senate Democratic Caucus and CA LGBTQ Caucus jointly denounce the verbal harassment and attacks he experienced,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California State Senator Scott Wiener was harassed for his stance on Gaza during the San Francisco Trans March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3629,7,2434,109357,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-378874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-antisemitism","tag-california","tag-lgbtq","tag-pride-parade","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378874","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=378874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}