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Attack on Scott Wiener shows you can’t, and shouldn’t, appease the Jew-hating left

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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.

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“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........

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