Progressive Jewish US lawmaker chased from transgender event, accused of ‘genocide’

California Congressional candidate Scott Wiener, who is Jewish, was chased out of a transgender community march in San Francisco on Friday, in the second instance of anti-Israel harassment against Wiener this week.

The incidents came amid increasing concern about antisemitism in left-wing politics in the US and a slew of incidents targeting Jews on the left.

Wiener, who is gay, is a state senator and a longtime supporter of the LGBTQ community who has passed pro-transgender legislation in the state government.

He is one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in California state politics and is among the leading candidates in the race to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is retiring.

Video posted by a local activist showed an anti-Israel crowd accosting Wiener at the transgender community parade in San Francisco’s Dolores Park.

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In the footage, the activist approaches Wiener and compliments his past legislation in support of the LGBTQ community, as other activists begin shouting, calling Wiener a “genocidal piece of shit.”

The activist filming the video then shouts, “I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible. I think you do not belong here.

Other attendees follow Wiener, repeatedly shouting, “We fucking hate you,” and holding their middle fingers up to Wiener’s face.

Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It's sad because while he's written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde

— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) June 27, 2026

“You’ve been wonderful on trans people and you’ve been terrible on Gaza. You do not belong here anymore, Scott,” shouts the activist who is filming. “Do you have anything to say about Gaza? How could you do this to San Francisco?

“Say something. Redeem yourself,” he shouts. “You’re a piece of shit on Gaza. How could you do that? How could you betray queers?”

As Wiener leaves the event, members of the crowd shout at him, “Fuck you and your Zionist handlers. Fuck you and your Israeli handlers.”

“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of shit,” one shouts.

Wiener, a progressive, accused Israel of genocide earlier this year after coming under heavy pressure from the left. The accusation outraged many in the mainstream Jewish community.

Wiener has supported Israel’s right to exist and affiliated with Jewish groups, while criticizing the Netanyahu government, the war in Gaza, and opposing military aid to Israel.

In a separate incident, on Wednesday, an anti-Zionist activist harassed Wiener at a bar in San Francisco where he had gone to watch a World Cup game.

“You got to get the fuck out my hood, bro. It’s free Palestine here. We’re against the genocide,” he shouts at Wiender.

“You think you’re going to come to my neighborhood? You fucked up. It’s going to be a problem. There’s innocent children being killed in Palestine. You’re pushing that genocidal agenda as a Zionist,” he says.

The man filming repeatedly demanded that Wiener say, “Free Palestine,” to the camera, while pointing his finger in Wiener’s face and shouting at his staffers.

In a Saturday statement, Wiener said he had attended the trans march every year since 2004 “in solidarity with our trans siblings.” He said the harassment had forced him out of the event and that he did not participate for the first time in 22 years.

He said that when he was harassed, he had been walking to a transgender-led Shabbat service.

For the earlier incident at the bar, Wiener said the man harassing him had cornered him and his young female staff members. The bar’s employees ejected the agitator, who went outside the bar “shouting my name and pounding on the side of the bar” for several minutes, Wiener said.

”I have no objection whatsoever to anyone disagreeing with me, opposing me, or protesting me,” his statement said. “But when opposition and disagreement transition to harassment, including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line.”

The incidents came after a slew of incidents involving the Democratic Party this week that unnerved Jews around the US.

On Tuesday, a New York candidate who attended a rally celebrating the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught in Israel won a Congressional primary in New York City.

The candidate, Darializa Avila Chevalier, refused to condemn Hamas and the October 2023 attack during the campaign.

She was one of three anti-Israel candidates who won Congressional primaries in the city, with the support of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in races where Israel was a central focus.

One of the candidates, Claire Valdez, hosted a celebratory election night party where attendees chanted, “Fuck AIPAC,” despite the pro-Israel lobby not playing any role in the race. Valdez had falsely suggested her opponent was receiving funds from AIPAC days earlier.

Also this week, Mamdani doubled down on his comments likening the pro-Israel lobby to “monsters” deploying “millions in dark money” to “preserve their power,” enact genocide and foment societal divisions.

Mainstream Jewish groups, leftists who are more sympathetic to Mamdani and Jewish elected officials all said the comments were discriminatory.

More than 700 rabbis signed a letter on Friday saying Mamdani’s speech “put a target on the backs of American Jews.”

In another incident, a Democratic leader in Brooklyn defended posting an antisemitic screed about Henry Ford, one of the leading proponents of anti-Jewish conspiracies in the US in the early 20th century. The post was first reported by Jewish Insider.

On Monday, in Colorado, Congressional candidate Melat Kiros, a democratic socialist, declined to say that a deadly firebombing targeting activists for Israeli hostages was antisemitic. The attack killed an 82-year-old woman, Karen Diamond, in Boulder, Colorado.

“I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator,” she said.

Kiros has in the past opposed some measures to combat antisemitism, argued that calling for Israel’s destruction is not antisemitic, and justified the October 2023 Hamas attack.

Earlier in the week, The New York Post reported that the progressive Long Island Congressional candidate Lukas Ventouras has been liking antisemitic posts on social media.

On Monday, a New York coffee shop banned US Rep. Dan Goldman, who is Jewish, after he stopped at one of its locations, saying the company did not allow “genocide enablers” on its premises.