The roasting of Wiener: Scott Wiener and antisemitism among Democrats
Scott Wiener's fate is the state of the Democratic Party
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By CA Post Editorial Board Published June 29, 2026, 6:58 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The California Post on GoogleScott Wiener was harassed — twice — in San Francisco this week by activists who confronted him in an aggressive and, frankly, frightening manner.
The reason? The activists say that Wiener has the wrong position on Israel.
The state senator was targeted on Wednesday at a bar where a crazed activist tried to force him to say “Free Palestine,” and demanded that he leave the Mission District neighborhood.
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Then, on Friday, he was mobbed by activists at Dolores Park before the Trans March. One shouted: “You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel,” adding an expletive. He was escorted out.
The irony: Wiener changed his position on Israel in January, bowing to pressure from left-wing activists. He said that he now agreed that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza after all.
It’s an absurd position. There has been a ceasefire in Gaza for months. And even during the war — which was started by Palestinian terrorists — Israel provided humanitarian aid to Gaza.
But Wiener, who is both gay and Jewish, faced a tough challenge in the primary for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. So he had to adopt the new left-wing dogma, even if he had to know it isn’t true.
The irony: It wasn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough.
Wiener remains a target, even though he changed his mind, because he is Jewish.
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Mayor Daniel Lurie pulled no punches in his response: “The language directed at Sen. Wiener yesterday was targeted, hateful, and antisemitic,” he said.
But Wiener’s colleagues in the State Senate avoided the obvious. They simply called the “hatred and violence” toward Wiener “unacceptable,” and cited his record on LGBTQ+ issues.
They did not condemn the antisemitism on display. They cannot, because antisemitism is rising rapidly in the Democratic Party, just as it is on the extreme right.
Some critics blamed Wiener himself, noting that he has often used aggressive language to target those with whom he disagrees.
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated last year, for example, Wiener — who had argued with Kirk online — said that while his murder should be “condemned,” Kirk was also a “vile bigot who did immeasurable harm to so many people.”
Wiener is now being treated the way he treated others.
That doesn’t make it right, but it does show the folly of cancel culture.
It also paints a sorry picture of the Democratic Party today, where hating Jews is the new norm.
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
