California Democrat driven from LGBTQ event ‘for being terrible on Gaza'

Middle East Eye·June 28, 2026Protests

California Democrat driven from LGBTQ event ‘for being terrible on Gaza' California State Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive Jewish lawmaker and leading candidate to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was chased out of a transgender community march in San Francisco for his alleged pro-Israel stance, Israeli media reported. A video posted by a local activist showed Wiener being accosted by a crowd in San Francisco’s Dolores Park and calling him a “genocidal piece of shit”. The activist filming the video then shouts, “I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible.

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