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California state senator Scott Wiener, a candidate for Congress, has declared that Israel has committed “genocide” in Gaza. As Richie Greenfield of the California Globe notes, “This is nothing short of a misguided betrayal of San Francisco’s Jewish community, a group he has long courted for inclusion, support and votes.” As Greenfield explains:
A Jewish lawmaker himself, Wiener knows full well the profound pain and historical trauma he evokes through use of the term genocide, as relating to the Nazi Germany-perpetrated Holocaust that claimed six million Jews. Yet, in a desperate bid to salvage his now-floundering congressional campaign with an upcoming primary this June, he has shamefully thrown his own heritage under the bus, pandering to anti-Israel extremists who dominate the city’s far-left.
The city is San Francisco, home to Nancy Pelosi, whom Wiener seeks to replace. As Greenfield notes, the “genocide” proclamation is a new development for the San Francisco Democrat:
His declaration isn’t a principled evolution after deep reflection; it’s political cowardice, a flip-flop, driven by boos thrown at him last Wednesday, January 7, 2026 during a candidate forum he attended. On stage, his opponents gleefully labeled Israel genocidal, yet Wiener hesitated to concur. His refusal to answer the question was telling, drawing jeers from the crowd.
In Greenfield’s view, Wiener adds insult to injury by exploited his Jewish heritage for political gain:
For years he has paraded through local synagogues, schmoozing at Shabbat services and High Holiday events, and inserted himself into gatherings like Hanukkah celebrations in Union Square as recently as one month ago – all to burnish his image as a “proud Jew” connected to the community. But after this betrayal, he no longer should feel welcomed in these sacred spaces; his presence is a mockery, a hollow performance void of genuine respect for Jewish values of justice and self-preservation for our Israeli brethren.
Greenfield reviews the attack of October 7, 2023, “the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust.” Hamas militants “raped, tortured, beheaded, burned, murdering civilians in their homes, at a music festival, and then kidnapped 251 hostages, many held for years in unspeakable conditions in Gaza’s tunnels.” Wiener “danced around this horror, focusing instead on critiquing Israel’s retaliatory response instead of the actual atrocity perpetrated against them.”
Hamas has “genocidal intent” literally enshrined in their charter. By accusing Israel of genocide Wiener “aligns himself with radicals who chant ‘from the river to the sea,’ seeking erasure of Israel. “True leadership condemns terror unequivocally, defends a democracy’s right to security and self-defense, and rejects divisive rhetoric that endangers Jews worldwide,” Greenfield contends. “Wiener has failed on all counts, proving he’s unfit for Congress.” Californians have grounds to believe Wiener had already proved unfitness in other ways.
Originally from New Jersey, Wiener moved to San Francisco in 1997 and worked as an attorney until 2010, when he gained election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In 2016, Wiener backed an ordinance to boycott 30 states over their alleged rollback of “LGBTQ rights,” without explaining what they were. In 2023 the city repealed the measure because it increased costs by 20 percent.
In 2019, Wiener authored SB-145, which allows a 24-year-old to have sex with a 14-year-old and escape registration on the sex offender registry. In September, 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure. San Diego Democrat Lorena Gonzalez, author of the vile AB-5, thought Wiener had crossed the line.
“I cannot in my mind, as a mother, understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be ‘consensual.’ How it could ever not be a registrable offense,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t care what kind of sex it is, I don’t care,” Gonzales said. “The bottom line is when a 24-year-old has sex with a 14-year-old, it is always in an inequitable situation.” Wiener’s law should come as no surprise in a state whose patron saint, Harvey Milk, was a pederast. See Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk and Ten Days that Shook San Francisco, by Daniel J. Flynn.
Sen. Wiener is also disturbed by recent rulings against men competing in women’s sports.
For example, Penn revoked the awards of William Thomas, a former member of the men’s swim team who as “Lia Thomas,” rudder intact, prefers to compete against women.
“As fascism rises,” Wiener posted, “we get to see who resists and who collaborates. Penn and UVA are collaborating, folding like cheap tents,” and “history will remember, just like it remembers who made what choices in the 1930s.” And so on, from the Harvard Law alum who aims to replace Nancy Pelosi, first elected in 1987.
Wiener thinks joining the genocide in Gaza chorus will land him in Congress. As President Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
