Attack on Scott Wiener shows you cant, and shouldnt, 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 burni...