Attack on Scott Wiener shows you can’t, and shouldn’t, appease the Jew-hating left

It’s been a rough weekend for Scott Wiener.

The California State Senator, who is hoping to replace the retiring Nancy Pelosi in Congress later this year, was heading over to San Francisco’s Trans March last Friday when he was circled by a gaggle of radicals, some sporting Kaffiyehs and covering their faces.

Yelling invectives and giving Wiener the finger, they accused the uber-progressive lawmaker — himself a gay man and one of the state’s most effective legislators on LGBTQ issues — of being “terrible on Gaza.” At some point, one of the thugs taunted Wiener, who is Jewish, about having “Israeli handlers.”

A video of the ambush shows Wiener looking stunned, and, eventually, hurrying out of the park without attending the march.

“When opposition and disagreement transition to harassment,” he said later that day in a statement, “including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line. We’re living in a time when violence is all too often threatened or used against people in public life. In San Francisco, we’re better than that.”

Except that, as the video of the assault so clearly shows, San Francisco isn’t better than that, and neither, sadly, are the rest of us.

Because more, maybe, than any other scuffle in recent memory, the assault on Wiener showed just how truly all-around broken our political culture has become.

Let’s begin with the thugs themselves.

“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of sh*t,” shrieked one assailant, giving us the clearest peek we’ve had yet into the minds of the so-called “pro-Palestine” crowd.

First, this statement assumes that nothing else matters but the obsession with a conflict unfurling thousands of miles away. Not housing for poor folks in Sacramento. Not health care for working families in Fresno. Not the real life concerns of any real, live Americans — just “Palestine,” or, more accurately, a burning hatred for Israel.

Second, the assault on Wiener gave us proof, as if any further proof was needed, that you can never satisfy the blood-thirsty lunatics on the left. Wiener had already publicly succumbed to his party’s most raging radicals. Earlier this year, he abandoned his previously ever-so-slightly nuanced position on the conflict — one that put at least some of the blame on Hamas and its campaign of rapes and massacres — and declared Israel guilty of “genocide.”

Following wide-spread condemnations from California Jews of all stripes, Wiener stepped down as the co-chair of the state’s Jewish Caucus. None of that was nearly enough for the hordes cornering him on Friday.

Why?

Because “pro-Palestine” is simply a slightly more pleasant term for rabid Jew-hatred. The goons poking their fingers at Wiener weren’t protesting any of his policies or positions. They were simply having fun beating up on a Jew, just as their spiritual ancestors in Berlin had done not even a century ago.

And they’re hardly outliers. From New York’s mayor, who has referred to pro-Israeli advocates as “monsters” to our soon-to-be Congresswoman, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended a pro-Hamas rally on October 8, 2023, the Democrat Party is now the party of bigotry, violence, and hate.

Which, sadly, doesn’t mean that Wiener himself is an innocent victim here. Cowardice and complacency aren’t minor character flaws. And it doesn’t take a particularly brilliant student of history to realize that you can never, ever appease the revolutionaries: All you can do is buy yourself a little more time before they put you, too, up against the wall.

Wiener learned his lesson the hard way Friday. But scores of Jewish Democrats, all of them remarkably silent in the face of this hostile takeover of their party by a band of maniacs, are still shying away from confrontation, keeping mum and hoping that the hordes will spare them somehow.

Newsflash for Chuck Schumer et al: They won’t.

Finally, watching Wiener flee, haggard and humiliated, too many conservatives cheered on, delighted by the spectacle of the left eating its own. This, too, must stop. We only have two political parties in America, and when one gets eaten up by the sort of savages who think nothing of roughing up an opponent simply because he’s Jewish, we’re in deep, deep trouble.

Kicking these benighted savages out of the Democrat Party, out of politics, and, whenever possible, out of America, is a tall order. Here’s hoping it’s one that can still bring all sane Americans together, no matter their partisan affiliation.