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This has left a lot of kids — \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/migrant-children-southern-california-used-as-bait-to-arrest-deport-parents\">including at least a dozen in Southern California\u003c/a> —- stranded in government shelters and foster care. Immigration attorneys say they’ve suspected for months that the arrests are part of a formal policy. And court documents that were recently discovered suggest that it is.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076182/newsom-wades-into-israel-debate-as-he-shapes-potential-2028-profile\">\u003cstrong>Newsom wades into Israel debate as he shapes potential 2028 profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has never shied away from politics that go beyond the borders of his current job. As mayor of San Francisco 20 years ago, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Newsom-s-Switzerland-trip-2654797.php\">repeatedly attended\u003c/a> the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As governor, he’s continued to insert himself into geopolitics, particularly as a contrast to President Donald Trump on climate, including a \u003ca href=\"https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/10/why-gavin-newsoms-china-trip-is-both-mundane-and-meaningful\">China trip\u003c/a> in 2023 and last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/26/california-delegation-wraps-historic-participation-at-cop30-new-global-partnerships-clean-energy-records-and-climate-leadership/\">visit to Brazil\u003c/a> for the U.N. Climate Conference, COP30. Part of that engagement can be chalked up to California’s size and international economic relevance. The state, Newsom loves to say, “punches above its weight.” If it were a country, it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/\">rank fourth\u003c/a> in GDP after the U.S., China and Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Newsom eyes a potential 2028 presidential run — and positions himself as the Democratic Party’s chief foil to Trump — he also seems to be wading deeper into foreign policy. Even on issues that are politically sticky, like U.S. support for Israel. It’s a pivot any governor looking toward higher office has to make, said Dane Strother, a longtime Democratic political consultant. “When you reposition from governor toward the more national fields and position, you don’t become someone you’re not, but you explain who you are in a different way,” said Strother, who has worked for Democratic heavyweights including former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother cited examples: Ronald Reagan reassuring voters he wouldn’t go after Social Security or Medicare. Bill Clinton branding himself as a “New Democrat” who supported welfare reform and tough-on-crime policies. George W. Bush painted himself as a “compassionate conservative.” “Gavin’s chiseling out right now his national identity,” Strother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who has advised three presidential candidates — the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — said it’s not always an easy transition. “McCain already had much more of a national profile, largely because of having been a POW,” Mair said. “But for everybody else, they have to somehow translate from the state level up to national. And it’s a really big leap. There’s a huge learning curve there. I think even (for) governors of big states … it’s not something that is automatically easy.” That could be particularly true, Mair said, coming from California, which many voters view “as so far off in left field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means minefields ahead — for Newsom and the many other Democratic governors looking at a 2028 run. Take Newsom’s recent comments on Israel during his book tour for his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. At an \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gavin-newsom-is-finally-comfortable-with-himself/id1192761536?i=1000753725429\">onstage interview\u003c/a> in Los Angeles with Pod Save America, Newsom was asked whether Israel pushed the U.S. into war with Iran. “The issue of Bibi (Netanyahu) is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up,” he said, adding that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from hard-line allies who want to annex the West Bank. “I mean, (\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist Thomas) Friedman and others are talking about it appropriately, sort of an apartheid state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the same interview, he responded this way when pressed on whether the U.S. should reconsider its military support for Israel: “It breaks my heart because leadership in Israel is walking us down that path, where I don’t think you have a choice but that consideration,” he said. Those comments, particularly his use of the word apartheid, \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-says-he-was-shocked-by-newsom-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-gavin-newsom-iran\">prompted outrage\u003c/a> from some Democrats. One member of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/2030357821557227559?s=20\">asked\u003c/a> if it’s “really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Democratic critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, Newsom’s comments reflect what they see as a moral and necessary political pivot. Tariq Habash resigned from the Biden administration’s Department of Education over its unwavering support for Israel and co-founded A New Policy, a nonprofit lobbying organization aimed at changing U.S. policy toward Israel. Habash noted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/10/03/how-americans-view-the-israel-hamas-conflict-2-years-into-the-war/\">public opinion\u003c/a> on Israel has shifted to be more critical of Israel’s government and more sympathetic to Palestinians, particularly among the Democratic base. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza\">evidence\u003c/a> that Biden’s support of Israel cost Kamala Harris votes in the 2024 election. (We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075598/newsoms-apartheid-remark-signals-shift-in-democrats-middle-east-messaging\">dug into this shift\u003c/a> on last week’s Political Breakdown podcast roundtable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/migrant-children-southern-california-used-as-bait-to-arrest-deport-parents\">\u003cstrong>Migrant children detained in Southern California used as ‘bait’ to arrest and deport their parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since last summer, the Trump administration has been arresting undocumented immigrants as they try to claim their children from federal custody, stranding the kids in government shelters and foster care. The practice violates the government’s own regulations, according to an informal network of immigration attorneys across the country, who suspected for months that the arrests were the result of a formal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a document unearthed in a federal district court case in Texas appears to confirm that suspicion. “Operation Guardian Trace,” as it’s called in the document, requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct in-person interviews with the relatives of undocumented children in federal custody, and detain and deport those adults who are “illegally present in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys say the policy represents a dramatic reversal in how the government handles the release of unaccompanied minors and treats their undocumented relatives, who were previously allowed to get their children back regardless of their immigration status. “This confirms what we’ve known for months,” said Mishan Wroe, directing attorney for immigration at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland. “The government is explicitly and deliberately using children as bait to achieve their political goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children, who entered the U.S. alone and without authorization and have usually come to join family, are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They’ve often fled violence or persecution in their home countries, Wroe said, and most apply for asylum or other legal status. They’re detained until the government can vet their relatives, or sponsors, to make sure the adults can \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://acf.gov/orr/policy-guidance/unaccompanied-children-program-policy-guide-section-2#:~:text=The%20process%20for%20the%20safe,;%20and%20post%2Drelease%20planning.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>“provide for the physical and mental well-being of children.” \u003c/u>\u003c/a>When a sponsor is detained, their application to claim the child is invalidated. If no other potential sponsors come forward, the child remains in ORR custody until they can be placed in foster care or they turn 18. 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That means roughly one in four sponsors who came in for interviews or I.D. checks were arrested. It’s unclear how many have been deported, or were later released and allowed to sponsor their kids.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, March 24, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As California Governor Gavin Newsom eyes a potential 2028 presidential run, he’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076182/newsom-wades-into-israel-debate-as-he-shapes-potential-2028-profile\">wading into more foreign policy\u003c/a> — even on issues that are controversial. It’s a pivot that’s helping him build a national profile. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since last summer, the Trump administration has been arresting undocumented immigrants as they try to claim their children from federal custody. This has left a lot of kids — \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/migrant-children-southern-california-used-as-bait-to-arrest-deport-parents\">including at least a dozen in Southern California\u003c/a> —- stranded in government shelters and foster care. Immigration attorneys say they’ve suspected for months that the arrests are part of a formal policy. And court documents that were recently discovered suggest that it is.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076182/newsom-wades-into-israel-debate-as-he-shapes-potential-2028-profile\">\u003cstrong>Newsom wades into Israel debate as he shapes potential 2028 profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has never shied away from politics that go beyond the borders of his current job. As mayor of San Francisco 20 years ago, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Newsom-s-Switzerland-trip-2654797.php\">repeatedly attended\u003c/a> the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As governor, he’s continued to insert himself into geopolitics, particularly as a contrast to President Donald Trump on climate, including a \u003ca href=\"https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/10/why-gavin-newsoms-china-trip-is-both-mundane-and-meaningful\">China trip\u003c/a> in 2023 and last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/26/california-delegation-wraps-historic-participation-at-cop30-new-global-partnerships-clean-energy-records-and-climate-leadership/\">visit to Brazil\u003c/a> for the U.N. Climate Conference, COP30. Part of that engagement can be chalked up to California’s size and international economic relevance. The state, Newsom loves to say, “punches above its weight.” If it were a country, it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/\">rank fourth\u003c/a> in GDP after the U.S., China and Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Newsom eyes a potential 2028 presidential run — and positions himself as the Democratic Party’s chief foil to Trump — he also seems to be wading deeper into foreign policy. Even on issues that are politically sticky, like U.S. support for Israel. It’s a pivot any governor looking toward higher office has to make, said Dane Strother, a longtime Democratic political consultant. “When you reposition from governor toward the more national fields and position, you don’t become someone you’re not, but you explain who you are in a different way,” said Strother, who has worked for Democratic heavyweights including former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother cited examples: Ronald Reagan reassuring voters he wouldn’t go after Social Security or Medicare. Bill Clinton branding himself as a “New Democrat” who supported welfare reform and tough-on-crime policies. George W. Bush painted himself as a “compassionate conservative.” “Gavin’s chiseling out right now his national identity,” Strother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who has advised three presidential candidates — the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — said it’s not always an easy transition. “McCain already had much more of a national profile, largely because of having been a POW,” Mair said. “But for everybody else, they have to somehow translate from the state level up to national. And it’s a really big leap. There’s a huge learning curve there. I think even (for) governors of big states … it’s not something that is automatically easy.” That could be particularly true, Mair said, coming from California, which many voters view “as so far off in left field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means minefields ahead — for Newsom and the many other Democratic governors looking at a 2028 run. Take Newsom’s recent comments on Israel during his book tour for his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. At an \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gavin-newsom-is-finally-comfortable-with-himself/id1192761536?i=1000753725429\">onstage interview\u003c/a> in Los Angeles with Pod Save America, Newsom was asked whether Israel pushed the U.S. into war with Iran. “The issue of Bibi (Netanyahu) is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up,” he said, adding that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from hard-line allies who want to annex the West Bank. “I mean, (\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist Thomas) Friedman and others are talking about it appropriately, sort of an apartheid state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the same interview, he responded this way when pressed on whether the U.S. should reconsider its military support for Israel: “It breaks my heart because leadership in Israel is walking us down that path, where I don’t think you have a choice but that consideration,” he said. Those comments, particularly his use of the word apartheid, \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-says-he-was-shocked-by-newsom-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-gavin-newsom-iran\">prompted outrage\u003c/a> from some Democrats. One member of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/2030357821557227559?s=20\">asked\u003c/a> if it’s “really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Democratic critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, Newsom’s comments reflect what they see as a moral and necessary political pivot. Tariq Habash resigned from the Biden administration’s Department of Education over its unwavering support for Israel and co-founded A New Policy, a nonprofit lobbying organization aimed at changing U.S. policy toward Israel. Habash noted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/10/03/how-americans-view-the-israel-hamas-conflict-2-years-into-the-war/\">public opinion\u003c/a> on Israel has shifted to be more critical of Israel’s government and more sympathetic to Palestinians, particularly among the Democratic base. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza\">evidence\u003c/a> that Biden’s support of Israel cost Kamala Harris votes in the 2024 election. (We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075598/newsoms-apartheid-remark-signals-shift-in-democrats-middle-east-messaging\">dug into this shift\u003c/a> on last week’s Political Breakdown podcast roundtable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/migrant-children-southern-california-used-as-bait-to-arrest-deport-parents\">\u003cstrong>Migrant children detained in Southern California used as ‘bait’ to arrest and deport their parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since last summer, the Trump administration has been arresting undocumented immigrants as they try to claim their children from federal custody, stranding the kids in government shelters and foster care. The practice violates the government’s own regulations, according to an informal network of immigration attorneys across the country, who suspected for months that the arrests were the result of a formal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a document unearthed in a federal district court case in Texas appears to confirm that suspicion. “Operation Guardian Trace,” as it’s called in the document, requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct in-person interviews with the relatives of undocumented children in federal custody, and detain and deport those adults who are “illegally present in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys say the policy represents a dramatic reversal in how the government handles the release of unaccompanied minors and treats their undocumented relatives, who were previously allowed to get their children back regardless of their immigration status. “This confirms what we’ve known for months,” said Mishan Wroe, directing attorney for immigration at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland. “The government is explicitly and deliberately using children as bait to achieve their political goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children, who entered the U.S. alone and without authorization and have usually come to join family, are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They’ve often fled violence or persecution in their home countries, Wroe said, and most apply for asylum or other legal status. They’re detained until the government can vet their relatives, or sponsors, to make sure the adults can \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://acf.gov/orr/policy-guidance/unaccompanied-children-program-policy-guide-section-2#:~:text=The%20process%20for%20the%20safe,;%20and%20post%2Drelease%20planning.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>“provide for the physical and mental well-being of children.” \u003c/u>\u003c/a>When a sponsor is detained, their application to claim the child is invalidated. If no other potential sponsors come forward, the child remains in ORR custody until they can be placed in foster care or they turn 18. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has never shied away from politics that go beyond the borders of his current job. As mayor of San Francisco 20 years ago, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Newsom-s-Switzerland-trip-2654797.php\">repeatedly attended\u003c/a> the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As governor, he’s continued to insert himself into geopolitics, particularly as a contrast to President Donald Trump on climate, including a \u003ca href=\"https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2023/10/why-gavin-newsoms-china-trip-is-both-mundane-and-meaningful\">China trip\u003c/a> in 2023 and last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/26/california-delegation-wraps-historic-participation-at-cop30-new-global-partnerships-clean-energy-records-and-climate-leadership/\">visit to Brazil\u003c/a> for the U.N. Climate Conference, COP30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that engagement can be chalked up to California’s size and international economic relevance. The state, Newsom loves to say, “punches above its weight.” If it were a country, it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/\">rank fourth\u003c/a> in GDP after the U.S., China and Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Newsom eyes a potential 2028 presidential run — and positions himself as the Democratic Party’s chief foil to Trump — he also seems to be wading deeper into foreign policy. Even on issues that are politically sticky, like U.S. support for Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pivot any governor looking toward higher office has to make, said Dane Strother, a longtime Democratic political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reposition from governor toward the more national fields and position, you don’t become someone you’re not, but you explain who you are in a different way,” said Strother, who has worked for Democratic heavyweights including former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother cited examples: Ronald Reagan reassuring voters he wouldn’t go after Social Security or Medicare. Bill Clinton branding himself as a “New Democrat” who supported welfare reform and tough-on-crime policies. George W. Bush painted himself as a “compassionate conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin’s chiseling out right now his national identity,” Strother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who has advised three presidential candidates — the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — said it’s not always an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“McCain already had much more of a national profile, largely because of having been a POW,” Mair said. “But for everybody else, they have to somehow translate from the state level up to national. And it’s a really big leap. There’s a huge learning curve there. I think even (for) governors of big states … it’s not something that is automatically easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be particularly true, Mair said, coming from California, which many voters view “as so far off in left field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gavin Newsom gestures while speaking at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That means minefields ahead — for Newsom and the many other Democratic governors looking at a 2028 run. Take Newsom’s recent comments on Israel during his book tour for his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gavin-newsom-is-finally-comfortable-with-himself/id1192761536?i=1000753725429\">onstage interview\u003c/a> in Los Angeles with Pod Save America, Newsom was asked whether Israel pushed the U.S. into war with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue of Bibi (Netanyahu) is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up,” he said, adding that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from hard-line allies who want to annex the West Bank. “I mean, (\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist Thomas) Friedman and others are talking about it appropriately, sort of an apartheid state.”[aside postID=news_12075598 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2264208767-scaled.jpg']Then in the same interview, he responded this way when pressed on whether the U.S. should reconsider its military support for Israel: “It breaks my heart because leadership in Israel is walking us down that path, where I don’t think you have a choice but that consideration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments, particularly his use of the word apartheid, \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-says-he-was-shocked-by-newsom-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-gavin-newsom-iran\">prompted outrage\u003c/a> from some Democrats. One member of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/2030357821557227559?s=20\">asked\u003c/a> if it’s “really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Democratic critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, Newsom’s comments reflect what they see as a moral and necessary political pivot. Tariq Habash resigned from the Biden administration’s Department of Education over its unwavering support for Israel and co-founded A New Policy, a nonprofit lobbying organization aimed at changing U.S. policy toward Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habash noted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/10/03/how-americans-view-the-israel-hamas-conflict-2-years-into-the-war/\">public opinion\u003c/a> on Israel has shifted to be more critical of Israel’s government and more sympathetic to Palestinians, particularly among the Democratic base. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza\">evidence\u003c/a> that Biden’s support of Israel cost Kamala Harris votes in the 2024 election. (We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075598/newsoms-apartheid-remark-signals-shift-in-democrats-middle-east-messaging\">dug into this shift\u003c/a> on last week’s Political Breakdown podcast roundtable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that Gov. Newsom is actually doing what he needs to do,” Habash said. “Democrats are largely recognizing that they need to shift on the issue of U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom did walk some of his comments back — sort of. At a subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E5tFga9-xk&list=PLFqNXV_mz5lTCeKU9u5efdH3WWJPuQkRT&index=9\">book tour event\u003c/a> in New Hampshire, Newsom — a longtime self-described supporter of Israel (he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/20/governor-newsom-travels-to-israel/\">stopped there in 2023\u003c/a> on his way to China, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks) — underscored that support. Then, he made clear his objection is to the way Netanyahu is leading Israel, particularly on the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Newsom this week highlighted the nuanced position the governor is trying to carve out: separating Israel from its current leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor is calling out a difficult truth: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s maniacal paths to secure their own political futures are taking Israel — a democracy and America’s critical ally — down a course that threatens the future and safety of Israel, as well as Israelis and American Jews,” spokesperson Izzy Gardon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother said that Newsom hasn’t brought up the Israel question himself — he’s been asked about it. But the governor did \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CAgovernor/status/2027777089643151661\">preemptively weigh in\u003c/a> on Trump’s war in Iran, condemning the attacks while positioning himself as an ally of California’s large Iranian diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Strother and Mair agreed that at the end of the day, foreign policy is unlikely to be the biggest factor for any presidential candidate in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By and large, voters don’t give a shit about foreign policy. Some very vocal ones do, but that’s not really what they’re voting on,” Mair said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The price of gas, the price of food … Americans are hurting right now and foreign policy is not going to get anyone elected,” Strother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pivot any governor looking toward higher office has to make, said Dane Strother, a longtime Democratic political consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reposition from governor toward the more national fields and position, you don’t become someone you’re not, but you explain who you are in a different way,” said Strother, who has worked for Democratic heavyweights including former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother cited examples: Ronald Reagan reassuring voters he wouldn’t go after Social Security or Medicare. Bill Clinton branding himself as a “New Democrat” who supported welfare reform and tough-on-crime policies. George W. Bush painted himself as a “compassionate conservative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin’s chiseling out right now his national identity,” Strother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Mair, a Republican consultant who has advised three presidential candidates — the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — said it’s not always an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“McCain already had much more of a national profile, largely because of having been a POW,” Mair said. “But for everybody else, they have to somehow translate from the state level up to national. And it’s a really big leap. There’s a huge learning curve there. I think even (for) governors of big states … it’s not something that is automatically easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be particularly true, Mair said, coming from California, which many voters view “as so far off in left field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gavin Newsom gestures while speaking at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2026.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That means minefields ahead — for Newsom and the many other Democratic governors looking at a 2028 run. Take Newsom’s recent comments on Israel during his book tour for his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gavin-newsom-is-finally-comfortable-with-himself/id1192761536?i=1000753725429\">onstage interview\u003c/a> in Los Angeles with Pod Save America, Newsom was asked whether Israel pushed the U.S. into war with Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue of Bibi (Netanyahu) is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up,” he said, adding that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces pressure from hard-line allies who want to annex the West Bank. “I mean, (\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> columnist Thomas) Friedman and others are talking about it appropriately, sort of an apartheid state.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then in the same interview, he responded this way when pressed on whether the U.S. should reconsider its military support for Israel: “It breaks my heart because leadership in Israel is walking us down that path, where I don’t think you have a choice but that consideration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments, particularly his use of the word apartheid, \u003ca href=\"https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-says-he-was-shocked-by-newsom-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state-gavin-newsom-iran\">prompted outrage\u003c/a> from some Democrats. One member of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepJoshG/status/2030357821557227559?s=20\">asked\u003c/a> if it’s “really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Democratic critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, Newsom’s comments reflect what they see as a moral and necessary political pivot. Tariq Habash resigned from the Biden administration’s Department of Education over its unwavering support for Israel and co-founded A New Policy, a nonprofit lobbying organization aimed at changing U.S. policy toward Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habash noted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/10/03/how-americans-view-the-israel-hamas-conflict-2-years-into-the-war/\">public opinion\u003c/a> on Israel has shifted to be more critical of Israel’s government and more sympathetic to Palestinians, particularly among the Democratic base. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza\">evidence\u003c/a> that Biden’s support of Israel cost Kamala Harris votes in the 2024 election. (We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075598/newsoms-apartheid-remark-signals-shift-in-democrats-middle-east-messaging\">dug into this shift\u003c/a> on last week’s Political Breakdown podcast roundtable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that Gov. Newsom is actually doing what he needs to do,” Habash said. “Democrats are largely recognizing that they need to shift on the issue of U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Hamza Z. 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Then, he made clear his objection is to the way Netanyahu is leading Israel, particularly on the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Newsom this week highlighted the nuanced position the governor is trying to carve out: separating Israel from its current leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor is calling out a difficult truth: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s maniacal paths to secure their own political futures are taking Israel — a democracy and America’s critical ally — down a course that threatens the future and safety of Israel, as well as Israelis and American Jews,” spokesperson Izzy Gardon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strother said that Newsom hasn’t brought up the Israel question himself — he’s been asked about it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly every member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> congressional delegation said they will be voting yes on Wednesday on a resolution authored by South Bay Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ro-khanna\">Ro Khanna\u003c/a> that calls for President Donald Trump to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075251/iranian-americans-react-to-us-israel-war-on-iran\">military action against Iran\u003c/a> unless he seeks authorization from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House vote comes one day after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/98/cosponsors\">resolution \u003c/a>cosponsored by California’s Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/38/text\">resolution \u003c/a>coauthored by Khanna and Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie also calls for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iran. While unlikely to pass —and almost certainly be vetoed by the president if it did — the resolution asserts Congress’s power to declare war under the Constitution and calls for an end to military action “unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if it fails, the resolution will symbolically force lawmakers to go on the record and take a position on the war in Iran ahead of what’s expected to be a competitive midterm election to decide the control of Congress for the second half of Trump’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks on the House floor on Wednesday, Khanna — a longtime opponent of foreign military intervention — framed the decision before lawmakers as not a procedural vote, but a “profoundly moral” one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world needs a new moral vision. America needs a new vision. We are seeing militarism erode the soul of our nation, leading to a regime change war in Iran and utter human devastation in Gaza. Simply put, we have lost our way. We’re back to the law of the jungle, where might makes right and where the Middle East descends into a Hobbesian war of all against all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260302_IRANWARPROTEST_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prayer is held during a rally in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on March 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six American soldiers have died since military strikes began last weekend, according to the Pentagon, and nearly 800 people are believed to have been killed in Iran, including 160 children and staff at a school. Scores more have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-people-have-been-killed-us-israel-war-iran-2026-03-03/\">killed \u003c/a>across the region as the conflict spreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Schiff slammed the Trump administration for not making the case for war to the American public or to Congress before it began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at war, having had no national debate over whether we should enter into war. We are at war, having no authorization by Congress, a power explicitly given by our founders to the Congress to declare war,” he said. “This resolution is about stopping that war, but it is also about reasserting Congress’s vital role as a check on the executive and the abuse of the authority to bring a nation to war.”[aside postID=news_12075199 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2263689274-2000x1367.jpg']Among the coauthors of Khanna’s House resolution are eight Democratic members of Congress from the Bay Area: Pelosi, Oakland Rep. Lateefah Simon, Napa Rep. Mike Thompson, East Bay Reps. Mark DeSaulnier, John Garamendi and Eric Swalwell, North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman, and South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045408/im-furious-bay-area-leaders-criticize-trump-for-foregoing-congress-on-iran-strikes\">Many of those same lawmakers\u003c/a> cosponsoring the resolution also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074989/bay-area-lawmakers-rebuke-trump-over-iran-strikes-war-authority\">spoke out against the war \u003c/a>over the weekend, in the immediate aftermath of the first American strikes\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two debates going on here,” Pelosi said on the House floor on Wednesday. “One is a debate as to the Constitution of the United States. The other is whether Iran should have a nuclear weapon, which we all agree they should not. But that doesn’t mean the Constitution of the United States should be a casualty of that because you want to take a shortcut to the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have attacked Pelosi’s position in recent days, noting that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosis-war-powers-flip-flop-exposed-resurfaced-obama-era-clip-contradicts-trump-criticism\">defended\u003c/a> former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to bomb Libya in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her spokesman, Ian Krager, said there’s a difference between those limited operations in Libya and “a broader, escalating war” with Iran, and that she’s been consistent in her position that Congress should weigh in when there is the prospect of “expansive or prolonged hostilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244433247-scaled-e1762811972609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during a campaign event in support of Proposition 50 in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, Pelosi said on the House floor that there should be a debate about the merits of the actions in Iran — after Congress asserts its power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Rep. Sam Liccardo said he was troubled that the Trump administration has not clearly articulated the objectives of the war, calling such an explanation necessary both under the Constitution and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">U.S. military operations in Venezuela\u003c/a>, he said in a written statement that the American public doesn’t have the appetite for “more protracted engagement,” and called for “immediate action” from Congress on the war powers resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Sam Liccardo speaks during a press conference in San José about changes to a federal housing program’s funding by the Trump administration on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Trump justified last year’s attacks on Iran by claiming that he ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities; if true, he wouldn’t need this year’s war to do so,” Liccardo wrote. “Trump urges regime change, yet no mere bombing campaign — no matter how horrific or brutal — can deliver that outcome. Americans deserve the truth, and Congress cannot continue to acquiesce to the unconstitutional expansion of presidential war powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, 21 California members of Congress are cosponsoring Khanna’s resolution, all Democrats. Cosponsors outside the Bay Area include: Reps. 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But that doesn’t mean the Constitution of the United States should be a casualty of that because you want to take a shortcut to the war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatives have attacked Pelosi’s position in recent days, noting that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosis-war-powers-flip-flop-exposed-resurfaced-obama-era-clip-contradicts-trump-criticism\">defended\u003c/a> former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to bomb Libya in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her spokesman, Ian Krager, said there’s a difference between those limited operations in Libya and “a broader, escalating war” with Iran, and that she’s been consistent in her position that Congress should weigh in when there is the prospect of “expansive or prolonged hostilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2244433247-scaled-e1762811972609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks during a campaign event in support of Proposition 50 in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, Pelosi said on the House floor that there should be a debate about the merits of the actions in Iran — after Congress asserts its power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Rep. Sam Liccardo said he was troubled that the Trump administration has not clearly articulated the objectives of the war, calling such an explanation necessary both under the Constitution and morally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">U.S. military operations in Venezuela\u003c/a>, he said in a written statement that the American public doesn’t have the appetite for “more protracted engagement,” and called for “immediate action” from Congress on the war powers resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Sam Liccardo speaks during a press conference in San José about changes to a federal housing program’s funding by the Trump administration on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Trump justified last year’s attacks on Iran by claiming that he ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities; if true, he wouldn’t need this year’s war to do so,” Liccardo wrote. “Trump urges regime change, yet no mere bombing campaign — no matter how horrific or brutal — can deliver that outcome. Americans deserve the truth, and Congress cannot continue to acquiesce to the unconstitutional expansion of presidential war powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, 21 California members of Congress are cosponsoring Khanna’s resolution, all Democrats. Cosponsors outside the Bay Area include: Reps. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Iranian Americans across California are still in disbelief after the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes in Iran over the weekend. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for nearly a half century. Hundreds more have been killed, including at least 6 American military servicemembers. Some Iranian Americans are overjoyed at the death of Khamenei, while others are critical of the U.S. and Israel’s involvement in yet another war in the Middle East.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1065720802\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kyana Moghadam: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:05] \u003c/em>Do you want me to get a mic? I could set up a mic if you want it to sound better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:10] \u003c/em>This is Kyana Moghadam. She’s a journalist based in Oakland and a friend of ours here on The Bay. And she’s one of the thousands of Iranian Americans who’ve been watching the news of the U.S.’s war with Iran with shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kyana Moghadam: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:26] \u003c/em>I immediately messaged my cousin, Sara, because they live in Tehran. She said everyone was safe, but that she could hear the explosions and that her brother, my other cousin, was on his way home from work. And then I haven’t heard from her since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:43] \u003c/em>Kyana says, this is what communicating with family back in Iran has been like under the current regime. Internet blackouts during protests or political uprisings are common. But over the weekend, the U.S. And Israel launched coordinated strikes all over Iran. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Who ruled as Iran’s supreme leader for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kyana Moghadam: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:16] \u003c/em>Some people are really, really celebrating. And I think there is cause for celebration in some of that. But it also comes at such a cost. And no one wants to see their homeland or people be bombed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:33] \u003c/em>Some Iranian Americans say they’ve been waiting for this moment. Others condemn the U.S. And Israel’s involvement in yet another war in the Middle East. Kyana says these divisions are understandable and painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kyana Moghadam: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>Like it’s even hard to post online right now because the reactions are so varied and anyone who’s had to live under the regime for a long time is gonna have a very different experience than someone over here, like me, who is like kind of connecting through different ways. So I think there’s a lot of really understandable differences in how people are approaching this and thinking about it. But I feel like at the center of it all is like the cost of human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:20] \u003c/em>Today, we’re going to hear a tapestry of reactions from Iranian Americans at opposing protests in San Jose and San Francisco, as well as callers from KQED’s Forum, in their own words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protest chanting: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:42] \u003c/em>USA! USA! Good morning everyone! It’s a beautiful day!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reporter: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:52] \u003c/em>It would be great to use your name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amir Rezvani: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:56] \u003c/em>Amir. I moved out of Iran like 17 years ago but like you know I still have families over there living under this tyranny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reporter: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:05] \u003c/em>Is your family still there right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amir Rezvani: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Yeah\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amir Rezvani: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:10] \u003c/em>Just before the war started, we had a call with them, and then right after that, complete digital blackout, and yeah. You know, we hope that this military action, military intervention, continues and like, you know, after 47 years of tyranny, like brutality, atrocity, we can overthrow this regime once for good. I don’t have the crystal ball, crystal globe, and no one knows what happens, but this is our best chance. If we were not given this chance, this opportunity, there would have been guaranteed another, again, continuation of this regime for unknown amount of time. So, this is our best bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Speaker at protest: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:00] \u003c/em>We are not just celebrating the death of a man, we are celebrating the troubling of a regime that has cached their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alexis Madrigal: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:18] \u003c/em>David in Menlo Park, welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:20] \u003c/em>Yes, so I’m actually Iranian-American and I’ve been here for many years. This is 50 years being under Sharia law. They arrested over 40,000 people. They tortured my cousin three months ago and they killed him. People have been celebrating now and we are all supporting the President Trump. This is a bin Laden moment for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sepideh Aghamiri: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:48] \u003c/em>My name is Sepideh Aghamiri. I’m 36, and I’m local San Jose. So we are here today to support President Trump in his decision against Islamic Republic of Iran and also to show our support for our country, for USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reporter: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Tell me about the flag you’re wearing around your body right now, and about your own personal connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sepideh Aghamiri: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:14] \u003c/em>So this flag is the international flag of Iran so this is a true flag and that’s why you see all over our protests we’re having a real Iranian flag plus American flag, USA flag, and Israeli flags because these are the only two countries who’ve been supporting Iranian people and what actually they wanted. So I live locally in San Jose, I’ve been living here for the past six years now and I love this city for me to see that. People here do not value their freedom. What we don’t have in many countries outside the USA, it’s just beyond me. I can’t. That’s why we are here today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alexis Madrigal: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:11] \u003c/em>Welcome back to Forum, Alexis Madrigal here. We’re of course talking about the war in Iran. Let’s bring in Sara in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:21] \u003c/em>Yeah, hi, I just think that we attacked Iran exactly for the same reason that we attacked Iraq in 2003. This was unprovoked and illegal. And we did it exactly because Israel wanted us to attack Iran. I care a lot about my family, people of Iran, I don’t like Iranian regime. That’s why I’m here. But I do not approve any illegal and bombing attack on any country, specifically on Iran, that hasn’t done anything wrong. All other stories that we hear in the news is just these are lies, these are the things that Israeli media wanted us to say and wanted us believe, and we do, because if anybody doesn’t follow that, they will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protest chanting: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>Liberation!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yasmine Mortazabi: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:26] \u003c/em>Bombing kids is a crime!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yasmine Mortazabi: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>Hi everybody, my name is Yasmin. I’m a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and I’m also a proud Iranian-American. They want you to believe that every Iranian, both within Iran and in the diaspora, is cheering on the United States and Israel as they’ve dropped bombs on schools and homes, as they destroy infrastructure, and as they destabilize the entire region. And I am here to say that despite what the mass media may say, this is unequivocally false. My name is Yasmin Mordazavi. I am Iranian. I grew up going there every summer. My immediate family was just in Iran and I do have extended family in Iran as well. I think that the Iranian people in Iran can decide the future of their country. They’ve done it before and they can do it however many times they want. The sanctions that have been placed upon the Iranian people for almost 50 years have really hurt the people there. War, I don’t think, is going to help, like I said. People, there’s claims that this is about women’s rights, but we see girls’ schools being bombed. So, yeah, I, I dont’ share that opinion at all. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Iranian Americans across California are still in disbelief after the U.S. and Israel launched military strikes in Iran over the weekend. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for nearly a half century. Hundreds more have been killed, including at least 6 American military servicemembers. Some Iranian Americans are overjoyed at the death of Khamenei, while others are critical of the U.S. and Israel’s involvement in yet another war in the Middle East.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1065720802\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Others condemn the U.S. And Israel’s involvement in yet another war in the Middle East. Kyana says these divisions are understandable and painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kyana Moghadam: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>Like it’s even hard to post online right now because the reactions are so varied and anyone who’s had to live under the regime for a long time is gonna have a very different experience than someone over here, like me, who is like kind of connecting through different ways. So I think there’s a lot of really understandable differences in how people are approaching this and thinking about it. 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I moved out of Iran like 17 years ago but like you know I still have families over there living under this tyranny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reporter: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:05] \u003c/em>Is your family still there right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amir Rezvani: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:07] \u003c/em>Yeah\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Amir Rezvani: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:10] \u003c/em>Just before the war started, we had a call with them, and then right after that, complete digital blackout, and yeah. You know, we hope that this military action, military intervention, continues and like, you know, after 47 years of tyranny, like brutality, atrocity, we can overthrow this regime once for good. I don’t have the crystal ball, crystal globe, and no one knows what happens, but this is our best chance. If we were not given this chance, this opportunity, there would have been guaranteed another, again, continuation of this regime for unknown amount of time. So, this is our best bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Speaker at protest: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:00] \u003c/em>We are not just celebrating the death of a man, we are celebrating the troubling of a regime that has cached their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alexis Madrigal: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:18] \u003c/em>David in Menlo Park, welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:20] \u003c/em>Yes, so I’m actually Iranian-American and I’ve been here for many years. This is 50 years being under Sharia law. They arrested over 40,000 people. They tortured my cousin three months ago and they killed him. People have been celebrating now and we are all supporting the President Trump. This is a bin Laden moment for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sepideh Aghamiri: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:48] \u003c/em>My name is Sepideh Aghamiri. I’m 36, and I’m local San Jose. So we are here today to support President Trump in his decision against Islamic Republic of Iran and also to show our support for our country, for USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reporter: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:10] \u003c/em>Tell me about the flag you’re wearing around your body right now, and about your own personal connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sepideh Aghamiri: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:14] \u003c/em>So this flag is the international flag of Iran so this is a true flag and that’s why you see all over our protests we’re having a real Iranian flag plus American flag, USA flag, and Israeli flags because these are the only two countries who’ve been supporting Iranian people and what actually they wanted. So I live locally in San Jose, I’ve been living here for the past six years now and I love this city for me to see that. People here do not value their freedom. What we don’t have in many countries outside the USA, it’s just beyond me. I can’t. That’s why we are here today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alexis Madrigal: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:11] \u003c/em>Welcome back to Forum, Alexis Madrigal here. We’re of course talking about the war in Iran. Let’s bring in Sara in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sarah: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:21] \u003c/em>Yeah, hi, I just think that we attacked Iran exactly for the same reason that we attacked Iraq in 2003. This was unprovoked and illegal. And we did it exactly because Israel wanted us to attack Iran. I care a lot about my family, people of Iran, I don’t like Iranian regime. That’s why I’m here. But I do not approve any illegal and bombing attack on any country, specifically on Iran, that hasn’t done anything wrong. All other stories that we hear in the news is just these are lies, these are the things that Israeli media wanted us to say and wanted us believe, and we do, because if anybody doesn’t follow that, they will lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protest chanting: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>Liberation!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yasmine Mortazabi: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:26] \u003c/em>Bombing kids is a crime!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Yasmine Mortazabi: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>Hi everybody, my name is Yasmin. I’m a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and I’m also a proud Iranian-American. They want you to believe that every Iranian, both within Iran and in the diaspora, is cheering on the United States and Israel as they’ve dropped bombs on schools and homes, as they destroy infrastructure, and as they destabilize the entire region. And I am here to say that despite what the mass media may say, this is unequivocally false. My name is Yasmin Mordazavi. I am Iranian. I grew up going there every summer. My immediate family was just in Iran and I do have extended family in Iran as well. I think that the Iranian people in Iran can decide the future of their country. They’ve done it before and they can do it however many times they want. The sanctions that have been placed upon the Iranian people for almost 50 years have really hurt the people there. War, I don’t think, is going to help, like I said. People, there’s claims that this is about women’s rights, but we see girls’ schools being bombed. So, yeah, I, I dont’ share that opinion at all. 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President Donald Trump said Saturday that the latest strikes had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yasmine Mortazavi, an Iranian American and member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, said she learned of the strikes after waking up Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still in a bit of shock,” she told KQED. “I’m not surprised. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She acknowledged that Iranian Americans hold a range of political views, including some who support U.S. intervention, but said she believes the future of Iran should be determined by its people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Iranian people in Iran can decide the future of their country,” she said. “War, I don’t think, is going to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the crowd, Mortazavi challenged what she described as a narrative that Iranians broadly support U.S. and Israeli military action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want you to believe that every Iranian … is cheering on the United States and Israel,” she said. “That is unequivocally false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She urged attendees to continue organizing beyond the rally and announced plans for additional demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075006\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022826_IRAN-BAY-AREA-RESPONSE_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022826_IRAN-BAY-AREA-RESPONSE_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022826_IRAN-BAY-AREA-RESPONSE_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022826_IRAN-BAY-AREA-RESPONSE_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds an Iranian flag as protesters gather outside the San Francisco Federal Building during a “Hands Off Iran” rally Feb. 28, 2026, in San Francisco. The demonstration called for an end to U.S. involvement in the strikes on Iran. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dina Saadeh, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, said multiple groups mobilized quickly in response to the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angered today,” Saadeh told KQED. “People here don’t want to see our country engaged in more endless war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saadeh described the protest as part of a broader effort to oppose sanctions, military escalation and what she called U.S. imperialism. She said participants were calling on elected officials to redirect public funds toward domestic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">María Fernanda Bernal\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> members of Congress sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to launch coordinated U.S. strikes against Iran, warning the action risks another prolonged conflict and sidesteps Congress’ constitutional authority over war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States and Israel began major combat operations early Saturday, targeting Iranian military infrastructure and senior leaders in what the Pentagon called “Operation Epic Fury.” Trump, in a video statement posted to Truth Social, said the campaign aims to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, eliminate its naval power and prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iranian state media reported retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. bases in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, said he was unconvinced by the administration’s rationale and skeptical that airstrikes alone could accomplish the president’s stated goal of regime change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen a bombing campaign effective in delivering regime change, whether you’re talking about Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam,” Liccardo said. “History is full of those examples where a dominant power believes by bombing somehow or another, there will be a change in regime. It doesn’t work that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said while Iran is governed by what he described as a “dictatorial, murderous regime,” there is no organized or armed insurgency inside the country capable of toppling it. 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He added that achieving regime change would likely require ground forces — “the kind of engagement that the American public won’t support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo also argued the president bypassed Congress in authorizing the strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a president who does not care about the spirit or text of the Constitution,” he said. “Article One is very clear about congressional authority to declare war, and more importantly, for Congress to be consulted in a meaningful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Saturday that the U.S.‑Israeli strikes on Iran killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme leader for nearly 37 years and a long‑time foe of both Israel and the United States — a development that could trigger a major political and regional shift, though Iran has not confirmed his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074994\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263454468-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranians protest against attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Tehran, as the government said it had launched missiles at regional U.S. military sites and Israel in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes across the country. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a Vietnam combat veteran, said the strikes were not unexpected given the recent U.S. military buildup in the region, but he questioned the unilateral nature of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just don’t move that type of military presence into an area because you think it would be fun,” Thompson said. “This has been something that has been under consideration for some time.”\u003cbr>\nStill, Thompson said Congress must reassert its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president has shown no respect for the rule of law or the Constitution,” Thompson said. “I think that the Congress of the United States needs to reassert itself. This is not something that should be done unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned the escalation could draw the United States into another prolonged war, despite Trump’s past promises to end so-called forever wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is looking a lot like another forever war, and it should concern us all,” Thompson said. “I don’t think it is something that the American people want to do, and that is send their sons and daughters into combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2263420676-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises after Iran’s reported missile strike on the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, a Democrat whose district represents parts of Contra Costa and Solano counties, said he has long supported political change in Iran but does not believe military force will achieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been advocating a regime change in Iran for a long time, but I’ve never thought, and don’t agree today, that a military is going to achieve that goal,” Garamendi said. “It has to come from the people of Iran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi said the United States is now “involved in a war, and a very aggressive one,” and warned that American casualties are likely as Iran strikes back at U.S. targets in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military action unfolded as Washington remained in a partial government shutdown after lawmakers failed to reach agreement on funding for several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> Democrats chose “Together We Win” as their slogan for their statewide convention this past weekend in San Francisco, but beyond solidarity in opposing President Donald Trump, there was decidedly little togetherness on the key issue of \u003ca href=\"https://cadem.org/endorsements/\">endorsements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the party’s official nod is a key indicator for voters deciding whom to support. But they’ll have no such help for the June primary when it comes to gubernatorial candidates, where none of the Democrats seeking that office came close to winning the 60% of delegates needed to secure the endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest was Rep. Eric Swalwell, who won just 24% support. The other leading candidates, based on recent polling, were well behind in delegate support:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Betty Yee:\u003c/strong> 17%\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Xavier Becerra:\u003c/strong> 14%\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Tom Steyer:\u003c/strong> 13%\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Katie Porter:\u003c/strong> 9%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results also show how out of sync with voters party insiders are. In independent polls, Yee and Becerra are routinely in single digits, sometimes less than 5%. The indecisive result only heightened concerns that too many Democratic candidates could split the vote, leaving Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton in a November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the convention, party Chair Rusty Hicks told KQED Democrats would “hopefully walk away with clarity” about who the leading candidates were. Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Hicks did not indicate any interest in using his position to pressure anyone to drop out. “I think that the primary process in and of itself is a natural winnowing process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty T. Yee speaks during the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. Yee finished second in the party’s endorsement vote, which ended without consensus. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another landmine Democrats navigated was Israel’s war in Gaza and whether or not to use the word “genocide” to describe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069409/scott-wiener-pivots-after-congressional-forum-israel-has-committed-genocide-in-gaza\">exploded at a January forum\u003c/a> in San Francisco for candidates running to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress, when each was asked to answer “Yes or No” to 10 questions in a lightning round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the question, “Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?” two candidates — San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and former software engineer Saikat Chakrabarti held up a sign reading “yes” — prompting loud cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Sen. Scott Wiener declined to hold up either sign, igniting anger and shouts of “shame” from some in the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather outside Moscone West during the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Days later — under fire from progressives — Wiener \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/2010464312792404192?s=20\">released a video\u003c/a>. He acknowledged that genocide has occurred. Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is Jewish, said using a word originally used to describe the Nazi Holocaust in this case is painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But despite that pain and that trauma, we all have eyes, and we see the absolute devastation and catastrophic death toll in Gaza inflicted by the Israeli government,” Wiener said in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, he told KQED, “For Saikat Chakrabarti and for Connie Chan, this issue is not even vaguely personal. This is pure politics for them. For me, it’s not politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, of course, any issue can be both personal and political. And one thing is clear: After that candidates’ forum, Wiener’s campaign was facing a backlash from supporters, according to political consultant Sam Lauter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069062 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates running for California’s 11th Congressional District, (from left) Saikat Chakrabarti, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, take part in a forum at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were saying, ‘I need my congressman to take a moral position on this. And to me, it looks like genocide,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauter has endorsed Wiener for the seat, but said his use of the word genocide to describe Gaza was a gut-punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it wasn’t a gut-punch that Scott did it, but that he had to do it,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after acknowledging genocide, Wiener resigned as co-chair of the state Legislature’s Jewish Caucus. Although he said he’d been wanting to step down for a while, it’s clear the caucus was not comfortable with Wiener’s use of the word genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factions within the state party have been meeting for weeks to hammer out platform language both sides could live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirvette Judeh of the Arab American Caucus gestures during an interview at the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous years, Mirvette Judeh, chair of the party’s Arab American Caucus, said she noticed a change of tone from Jewish Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, there was a lot of discussion; it wasn’t easy, it was extremely difficult. There were some challenges, victories and losses on both sides,” Judeh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be justice for Palestinians, a state of their own, and then there’s where they can live in dignity and peace, and that Israel should remain also a Jewish state where they also can live in dignity and peace,” said Andrew Lachman, president of California Jewish Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the platform language was finalized, Judeh told KQED she “felt that the other side really tried. We tried to work together. It wasn’t easy,” adding she was hopeful. “If we could walk away from this with this hope, and both sides not hating each other, to me that’s a win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Lachman, president of the California Jewish Democrats, at the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, that seems to have happened. But the issue of Israel and Gaza will continue to come up, said Erin Covey, who covers congressional races for the Cook Political Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that willingness to criticize Israel is becoming a litmus test in some elections, especially in liberal districts like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all may be pretty progressive on social issues and on fiscal issues. Israel is one of the few areas where you do oftentimes see clear distinctions,” Covey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In most campaigns around the country right now, we’re seeing this issue becoming a particularly vivid litmus test in Democratic primaries, and it’s becoming more and more challenging for supporters of Israel to navigate that landscape,” USC political communications expert Dan Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this weekend’s Democratic convention, none of the candidates running for governor mentioned Israel or Gaza. And party leaders likely hope to keep it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results also show how out of sync with voters party insiders are. In independent polls, Yee and Becerra are routinely in single digits, sometimes less than 5%. The indecisive result only heightened concerns that too many Democratic candidates could split the vote, leaving Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton in a November runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the convention, party Chair Rusty Hicks told KQED Democrats would “hopefully walk away with clarity” about who the leading candidates were. Nope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Hicks did not indicate any interest in using his position to pressure anyone to drop out. “I think that the primary process in and of itself is a natural winnowing process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074214\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty T. Yee speaks during the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. Yee finished second in the party’s endorsement vote, which ended without consensus. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another landmine Democrats navigated was Israel’s war in Gaza and whether or not to use the word “genocide” to describe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069409/scott-wiener-pivots-after-congressional-forum-israel-has-committed-genocide-in-gaza\">exploded at a January forum\u003c/a> in San Francisco for candidates running to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress, when each was asked to answer “Yes or No” to 10 questions in a lightning round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the question, “Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?” two candidates — San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and former software engineer Saikat Chakrabarti held up a sign reading “yes” — prompting loud cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Sen. Scott Wiener declined to hold up either sign, igniting anger and shouts of “shame” from some in the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074207\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather outside Moscone West during the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Days later — under fire from progressives — Wiener \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/2010464312792404192?s=20\">released a video\u003c/a>. He acknowledged that genocide has occurred. Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is Jewish, said using a word originally used to describe the Nazi Holocaust in this case is painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But despite that pain and that trauma, we all have eyes, and we see the absolute devastation and catastrophic death toll in Gaza inflicted by the Israeli government,” Wiener said in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, he told KQED, “For Saikat Chakrabarti and for Connie Chan, this issue is not even vaguely personal. This is pure politics for them. For me, it’s not politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, of course, any issue can be both personal and political. And one thing is clear: After that candidates’ forum, Wiener’s campaign was facing a backlash from supporters, according to political consultant Sam Lauter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069062 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-SFCongressionalCandidateForum-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates running for California’s 11th Congressional District, (from left) Saikat Chakrabarti, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, take part in a forum at UC Law San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People were saying, ‘I need my congressman to take a moral position on this. And to me, it looks like genocide,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauter has endorsed Wiener for the seat, but said his use of the word genocide to describe Gaza was a gut-punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it wasn’t a gut-punch that Scott did it, but that he had to do it,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after acknowledging genocide, Wiener resigned as co-chair of the state Legislature’s Jewish Caucus. Although he said he’d been wanting to step down for a while, it’s clear the caucus was not comfortable with Wiener’s use of the word genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factions within the state party have been meeting for weeks to hammer out platform language both sides could live with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022126_GazaDems_GH_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirvette Judeh of the Arab American Caucus gestures during an interview at the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous years, Mirvette Judeh, chair of the party’s Arab American Caucus, said she noticed a change of tone from Jewish Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, there was a lot of discussion; it wasn’t easy, it was extremely difficult. There were some challenges, victories and losses on both sides,” Judeh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be justice for Palestinians, a state of their own, and then there’s where they can live in dignity and peace, and that Israel should remain also a Jewish state where they also can live in dignity and peace,” said Andrew Lachman, president of California Jewish Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the platform language was finalized, Judeh told KQED she “felt that the other side really tried. We tried to work together. It wasn’t easy,” adding she was hopeful. “If we could walk away from this with this hope, and both sides not hating each other, to me that’s a win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074208\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-GAZA-DEMS-GH-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Lachman, president of the California Jewish Democrats, at the California Democratic Party 2026 State Convention on Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, that seems to have happened. But the issue of Israel and Gaza will continue to come up, said Erin Covey, who covers congressional races for the Cook Political Report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that willingness to criticize Israel is becoming a litmus test in some elections, especially in liberal districts like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all may be pretty progressive on social issues and on fiscal issues. Israel is one of the few areas where you do oftentimes see clear distinctions,” Covey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In most campaigns around the country right now, we’re seeing this issue becoming a particularly vivid litmus test in Democratic primaries, and it’s becoming more and more challenging for supporters of Israel to navigate that landscape,” USC political communications expert Dan Schnur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this weekend’s Democratic convention, none of the candidates running for governor mentioned Israel or Gaza. 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"content": "\u003cp>As international leaders gathered in Egypt on Monday to mark the first stage of a ceasefire deal in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Gaza\u003c/a>, activists in the Bay Area celebrated the relief of the major breakthrough but said it isn’t without hesitation — and fear — over whether it will lead to prolonged peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living Israeli hostages captured during their Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, and in exchange, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of whom were detained without charges during the two-year war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Israeli hostages were delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross inside Gaza in two groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g-s1-93207/hamas-releasing-israeli-hostages\">NPR reported\u003c/a>, and many have been reunited with loved ones in Israel, according to social media posts from the Israel Defense Forces. Many of the detained Palestinians were put on buses to Gaza and the West Bank. Israel is sending others abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exchange was one of the most critical and long-demanded aspects of a deal to end the fighting. But many questions about how to rehabilitate the destroyed Gaza Strip, who will lead, and when Israel will withdraw its troops remain uncertain and precarious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s both happiness and relief, and understanding that we need to work hard to make it so that Palestinians really do have freedom,” said Ellen Brotsky, a council member of the Bay Area’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. “It’s both of those. I’m holding both of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Brysk, the Northern California regional director for the American Jewish Committee, said that while he also feels relief and appreciation for the moment, “there’s a lot more work that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a potentially historic, pivotal moment for the Middle East. There’s potential here for the brighter future that we’ve all hoped for for Israelis and Palestinians and really for the entire region,” he told KQED. “It’s a great moment that shouldn’t be allowed to pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see the joy in both Palestinians and Israelis on the ground,” Brotsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was deeply impacted both by the videos of Palestinians, once the ceasefire agreement was announced, the stream of Palestinians going back to northern Gaza; the videos of the hostages being returned both in Israel and in Palestine,” she continued. “And also, I feel like this is just the first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first phase of the plan that would end the war, sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel and Israel’s subsequent military offensive in Gaza, officially took effect Friday after gaining approval from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas leaders.[aside postID=news_12059265 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023_qed-1020x680.jpg']Israeli forces have pulled back from some of the most populous parts of Gaza they’ve occupied, and through the weekend, many Palestinians have begun returning to displaced parts of Northern Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the longer-term aspects of President Trump’s previously announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70155nked7o\">20-point peace proposal, published by the BBC\u003c/a>, still need to be worked out and will likely be challenging to execute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial phase of the deal still demands that Hamas release the bodies of 28 more Israeli hostages who are presumed to be dead, and that Israel allows an influx of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four coffins carrying hostages’ remains were en route to Israel’s National Institute for Forensic Medicine for identification, the IDF said Monday. It’s unclear if and when the outstanding bodies might be returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal also required Israeli troops to pull back to agreed-upon “yellow lines” outside the Gaza City and Khan Yunis areas. Going forward, Israel would need to withdraw from Gaza entirely — aside from a security buffer zone — while Hamas would be required to agree to disarm and give up any role in governing the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas has not publicly agreed to disarm, and it’s unclear what other group might have the capacity to lead long-term. Israel has not set forth a timeline for withdrawing its remaining troops, who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g-s1-93207/hamas-releasing-israeli-hostages\">still stationed in about half of the region\u003c/a>, according to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CeasefireGazaAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinians celebrate the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The international community has to maintain pressure on Hamas to agree to the rest of the peace plan,” Brysk said. “They have to agree to disarm, that there needs to be an international mechanism with a Palestinian presence to govern a post-war Gaza and we have to make sure that Hamas can’t be allowed to maintain its weapons or to govern Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to be watching to see that Israel is held to the agreements in the ceasefire,” Brotsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, there have been three attempts to pause or halt fighting in exchange for the release of some hostages and delivery of aid to Gaza. Israel and Hamas have both accused the other of violating the temporary ceasefires, as well as historical peace deals prior to the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That often happens,” Brotsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Jewish Voice for Peace will be closely watching to see that, as negotiations over the reconstruction and habilitation of Gaza begin, Palestinians are given autonomy, and that they do not endure “military rule and oppression” by Israel.[aside postID=news_12058616 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg']“Without Palestinian sovereignty and authority and participation in the peace deal as leaders, things aren’t going to change,” she said. “Israel, the U.S., other nations can’t be the decisive voices in the reconstruction that happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Trump’s proposed plan, he would oversee a body called the “Board of Peace,” which would guide a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” to set up new governance in Gaza. The body would be temporary, and Trump said it would be comprised of a group of “qualified” Palestinians and international experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would also be a member of the Board of Peace, according to the plan, though others who might also be involved in leadership haven’t been named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samer Araabi of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center said he’s wary of a group of international leaders guiding the development of a governance structure in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Europeans overseeing the way that Palestine will be ‘rebuilt’ — we have a hundred years of history of that happening, and we know exactly how well that has worked in the past,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also unsure that the group of Palestinian technocrats and Board of Peace put together by Trump would effectively oversee economic recovery and rehabilitation of the land in Gaza, the vast majority of which has been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g-s1-92205/ceasefire-gaza-war-key-figures\">NPR estimates\u003c/a> that 78% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, including more than 100 historical and archeological sites. Only 1.5% of farmland in Gaza can still be cultivated, and just 14 of its 36 hospitals are partially or wholly functional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know whether the political will exists to actually make Gaza livable again, to put in the investment and time and energy to rebuild an utterly devastated society,” Araabi said. “It’s hard to see whether or not that is all going to be done and whether it will actually be done in a way that prioritizes and values Palestinian sovereignty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 38 days, UC Berkeley computer science lecturer Peyrin Kao taught classes while on a hunger strike for Palestine. He’s also one of 150 people whose names were sent by UC Berkeley to the Trump Administration for its investigation into alleged antisemitism — an investigation that critics say is meant to silence opposition to Israel’s invasion and siege of Gaza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5206190486&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:33] So you’ve been a lecturer for, you’ve here for nine years, you said a lecturer for how long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] I’ve been teaching for eight years total, but I’ve been a full-time lecturer here for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] And what kind of classes do you have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, so like this semester I’m teaching the kind of intro to artificial intelligence class. It’s one of the classes I’m teaching. So just I’ve also taught like the computer security class, the computer networking class. So yeah, you kind of get tossed around a bit as a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Computer science, it’s not typically the kind of subject that I might imagine typically engaging with subjects like Palestine, the war in Gaza. When did you first feel the need to speak out about what’s happening in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] To me, the reason why it’s so important to speak out about this topic in particular, and the reason I’m saying this is because sometimes people will say, well, you’re really outspoken about this issue, but why aren’t you outspoking about the crackdown on immigrants or the attempt to erase transgender people? And it’s like, these are also really important issues that we should be talking about. And one of the reasons that I felt the need to speak about Palestine in particular is because this is an issue where the information war angle and the disinformation angle. Is such a big part of the reason why the genocide can go on. Being pumped into our social media feeds, into our conversations here in the United States to try and dehumanize Palestinians to say, well, they’re not starving, that’s fake. Talking about this one issue is important because to me I think it’s one of the biggest moral issues of our time. But then it allows us to open up other conversations about how our tech is being used not just to fuel genocide in Gaza, but how it’s being used. To track and surveil immigrants here in the U.S. And you can start making these connections if you start talking about topics like this. So to me, that’s why it’s so important to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] It sounds like you think that this conversation is very much part of what your students in computer science should be learning right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Right, exactly, and not only are these things that our students have to reckon with as they go into the workforce, a lot of the companies that our university and our department have close connections with are the companies that are directly complicit in Israeli genocide. Google and Amazon, these are companies that are students often go to work for, or they strive to work for Google or Amazon, and they come to our campus, and they do recruiting and career fairs and things like that. And it’s important to remember that these companies, even if they try to launder their reputation, they’re very much complicit in the genocide. And it is important to have these conversations to say, well, wait a minute, if you go and work for these companies where is your labor going? And when you’re building these things, like what is it being used for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] Was there a point in the last two years where you made the decision to really speak out about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] The first time that I brought it up in the workplace was actually November of 2023, when I talked to students about it after a class and the department wasn’t super happy with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] Uh, at this point, uh, 61B Electra is over, by the way, like, if you want to go, you can go. But since this is my last chance to talk to you all, and also you all out in the recording in the world, uh, I have a couple things I want to say, and I just want to make it clear that this is, like only on my behalf. So, like nobody on 61B…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] They called it political advocacy or something like that. But really what it was, was an acknowledgement that, one, there is a genocide going on, something that has since been validated by… Genocide scholars and by human rights organizations, but also to have students think critically. Like, the U.S. Is the biggest backer of Israel and its current bombing campaign in Gaza, okay? Like, my tax dollars are being used to fund the bombing of children, hospitals, schools, universities, okay, safe zones. And so, as someone who is funding this, I think I have a right to say something against it. If you’re going to learn all these tools to write these programs and train these large AI models, what are those going to be used for? Are they going to used to mass surveil Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza? These are things that we have to be thinking critically about and I don’t think it’s necessarily political advocacy or that it’s controversial to say that we should have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:58] Tell me a little bit more about the reaction that you got from both students and, I mean, I’m also curious your department and also the university at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] And I would say the student reaction was largely positive. People want to talk about this because it’s such an important thing to talk about and not suppress it and say, Oh, you can’t even talk about it because that’s what the department did. They shut it down and they said, you’re not allowed to talk about this. They told all the students and they. Oh, what your instructor did was inappropriate. And, you know, he’s going to get in trouble for it and you should report him. This was sort of like record now that says, Oh well, you know, this guy got in trouble for a political advocacy. And they basically made it clear in no uncertain terms that if you do it again. You know, we’re not going to be very thrilled about it. And I would also mention that as a lecturer, I’m hired on year to year contracts. So I don’t have the same sort of job security that tenured faculty do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] In an email to KQED, UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said the school always takes a quote, viewpoint neutral approach when it comes to supporting freedom of expression. Mogulof says staff and faculty speaking for themselves and on their own time have every right to voice their beliefs, but that it’s a different story in the classroom. When it came to Peyrin Kao’s lecture in November of 2023, Mogulof pointed to UC policy, which requires its universities to be non-partisan and quote, prohibits faculty from using the classroom or class time as venues or opportunities for political advocacy or indoctrination. One way you really pushed is you decided to go on a hunger strike. What was the goal of the hunger strike and when did you start that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Yeah, the hunger strike started on the first day of class, which was August 27th, and it lasted until October 3rd or 4th, which was 38 days in. There were lots of different reasons we went into it, but one reason I think is, again, there’s this dehumanization of Palestinians that goes on, and that means that when Palestinians die, it’s written like a statistic. It doesn’t even read like these are people, but they are people. That’s someone’s mother, that’s someone child, that’s someones doctor, that someone’s nurse. One of the goals of launching an action, like a hunger strike specifically, is to bring that starvation to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:32] Effective today to protest this genocide, I am launching an open-ended hunger strike, and I call on all CSTech workers, students, and educators to do everything they can to stop the atrocities happening with our taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:47] So that when people interact with me, you know, out on the street, or at a protest, or in the classroom, at office hours. They have to see someone starving in front of them and remember, well, the people that I see starving in Gaza, they’re just like this person that’s right in front of me and I mean, right around the time the hunger strike started, we read that one of the people that starved to death in Gaza. I looked at their job and it said university lecturer and that really hit me and it made me think, well, wait a minute, like that could have been me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] During the hunger strike, Kao pledged to live on a starvation diet of 250 calories per day. Organizers say that number mirrors the average amount of food available to Palestinians in Northern Gaza, based on a 2024 report by Oxfam. Kao vowed to remain on strike until the UC Berkeley administration met four demands. Which include acknowledging Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestinians, as well as the university’s role in developing war technologies. He also asked that the university pledge to avoid any kind of relationship with the military and to create standards and practices around funding that aligned with international human rights law. When asked for comment about Kao’s hunger strike, UC Berkeley reiterated its “viewpoint neutral” approach to issues of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] What was the response to your hunger strike, right? I mean, did you get the response that you anticipated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Well, I’d say the response from the students and the community at large has been very positive. Again, I think people really see that they don’t want to be a part of a mass starvation campaign. From the university, their reaction was no more than sending me a nice letter saying, well, you’ve been reported to the Department of Education as part of the so-called anti-Semitism lawsuit. Have a nice day. 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I mean, with the Trump administration, we already know that they weaponized antisemitism to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I’m a lecturer in the CS department at UC Berkeley, I am on day 22 of a hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation and stage five famine and genocide in Gaza. In the statement that I made to the UC regions where I went and told them that they had just reported me and that I wasn’t very pleased about it, I told them this action that they decided to take, it puts my safety at risk and it puts the safety of my family at risk. My family and I are a word for our safety because my name has been sold out to the Trump administration. And we’ve seen what they’ve done to try and crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I call on the… You see what the Trump administration does when they want to suppress speech. They will abduct people off the streets. They will try and cancel people’s visas and try and deport them just for speaking out about Palestine. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] I’ve been teaching for eight years total, but I’ve been a full-time lecturer here for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] And what kind of classes do you have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, so like this semester I’m teaching the kind of intro to artificial intelligence class. It’s one of the classes I’m teaching. So just I’ve also taught like the computer security class, the computer networking class. So yeah, you kind of get tossed around a bit as a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Computer science, it’s not typically the kind of subject that I might imagine typically engaging with subjects like Palestine, the war in Gaza. When did you first feel the need to speak out about what’s happening in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] To me, the reason why it’s so important to speak out about this topic in particular, and the reason I’m saying this is because sometimes people will say, well, you’re really outspoken about this issue, but why aren’t you outspoking about the crackdown on immigrants or the attempt to erase transgender people? And it’s like, these are also really important issues that we should be talking about. And one of the reasons that I felt the need to speak about Palestine in particular is because this is an issue where the information war angle and the disinformation angle. Is such a big part of the reason why the genocide can go on. Being pumped into our social media feeds, into our conversations here in the United States to try and dehumanize Palestinians to say, well, they’re not starving, that’s fake. Talking about this one issue is important because to me I think it’s one of the biggest moral issues of our time. But then it allows us to open up other conversations about how our tech is being used not just to fuel genocide in Gaza, but how it’s being used. To track and surveil immigrants here in the U.S. And you can start making these connections if you start talking about topics like this. So to me, that’s why it’s so important to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] It sounds like you think that this conversation is very much part of what your students in computer science should be learning right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Right, exactly, and not only are these things that our students have to reckon with as they go into the workforce, a lot of the companies that our university and our department have close connections with are the companies that are directly complicit in Israeli genocide. Google and Amazon, these are companies that are students often go to work for, or they strive to work for Google or Amazon, and they come to our campus, and they do recruiting and career fairs and things like that. And it’s important to remember that these companies, even if they try to launder their reputation, they’re very much complicit in the genocide. And it is important to have these conversations to say, well, wait a minute, if you go and work for these companies where is your labor going? And when you’re building these things, like what is it being used for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] Was there a point in the last two years where you made the decision to really speak out about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] The first time that I brought it up in the workplace was actually November of 2023, when I talked to students about it after a class and the department wasn’t super happy with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] Uh, at this point, uh, 61B Electra is over, by the way, like, if you want to go, you can go. But since this is my last chance to talk to you all, and also you all out in the recording in the world, uh, I have a couple things I want to say, and I just want to make it clear that this is, like only on my behalf. So, like nobody on 61B…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] They called it political advocacy or something like that. But really what it was, was an acknowledgement that, one, there is a genocide going on, something that has since been validated by… Genocide scholars and by human rights organizations, but also to have students think critically. Like, the U.S. Is the biggest backer of Israel and its current bombing campaign in Gaza, okay? Like, my tax dollars are being used to fund the bombing of children, hospitals, schools, universities, okay, safe zones. And so, as someone who is funding this, I think I have a right to say something against it. If you’re going to learn all these tools to write these programs and train these large AI models, what are those going to be used for? Are they going to used to mass surveil Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza? These are things that we have to be thinking critically about and I don’t think it’s necessarily political advocacy or that it’s controversial to say that we should have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:58] Tell me a little bit more about the reaction that you got from both students and, I mean, I’m also curious your department and also the university at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] And I would say the student reaction was largely positive. People want to talk about this because it’s such an important thing to talk about and not suppress it and say, Oh, you can’t even talk about it because that’s what the department did. They shut it down and they said, you’re not allowed to talk about this. They told all the students and they. Oh, what your instructor did was inappropriate. And, you know, he’s going to get in trouble for it and you should report him. This was sort of like record now that says, Oh well, you know, this guy got in trouble for a political advocacy. And they basically made it clear in no uncertain terms that if you do it again. You know, we’re not going to be very thrilled about it. And I would also mention that as a lecturer, I’m hired on year to year contracts. So I don’t have the same sort of job security that tenured faculty do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] In an email to KQED, UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said the school always takes a quote, viewpoint neutral approach when it comes to supporting freedom of expression. Mogulof says staff and faculty speaking for themselves and on their own time have every right to voice their beliefs, but that it’s a different story in the classroom. When it came to Peyrin Kao’s lecture in November of 2023, Mogulof pointed to UC policy, which requires its universities to be non-partisan and quote, prohibits faculty from using the classroom or class time as venues or opportunities for political advocacy or indoctrination. One way you really pushed is you decided to go on a hunger strike. What was the goal of the hunger strike and when did you start that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Yeah, the hunger strike started on the first day of class, which was August 27th, and it lasted until October 3rd or 4th, which was 38 days in. There were lots of different reasons we went into it, but one reason I think is, again, there’s this dehumanization of Palestinians that goes on, and that means that when Palestinians die, it’s written like a statistic. It doesn’t even read like these are people, but they are people. That’s someone’s mother, that’s someone child, that’s someones doctor, that someone’s nurse. One of the goals of launching an action, like a hunger strike specifically, is to bring that starvation to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:32] Effective today to protest this genocide, I am launching an open-ended hunger strike, and I call on all CSTech workers, students, and educators to do everything they can to stop the atrocities happening with our taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:47] So that when people interact with me, you know, out on the street, or at a protest, or in the classroom, at office hours. They have to see someone starving in front of them and remember, well, the people that I see starving in Gaza, they’re just like this person that’s right in front of me and I mean, right around the time the hunger strike started, we read that one of the people that starved to death in Gaza. I looked at their job and it said university lecturer and that really hit me and it made me think, well, wait a minute, like that could have been me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] During the hunger strike, Kao pledged to live on a starvation diet of 250 calories per day. Organizers say that number mirrors the average amount of food available to Palestinians in Northern Gaza, based on a 2024 report by Oxfam. Kao vowed to remain on strike until the UC Berkeley administration met four demands. Which include acknowledging Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestinians, as well as the university’s role in developing war technologies. He also asked that the university pledge to avoid any kind of relationship with the military and to create standards and practices around funding that aligned with international human rights law. When asked for comment about Kao’s hunger strike, UC Berkeley reiterated its “viewpoint neutral” approach to issues of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] What was the response to your hunger strike, right? I mean, did you get the response that you anticipated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Well, I’d say the response from the students and the community at large has been very positive. Again, I think people really see that they don’t want to be a part of a mass starvation campaign. From the university, their reaction was no more than sending me a nice letter saying, well, you’ve been reported to the Department of Education as part of the so-called anti-Semitism lawsuit. Have a nice day. And that was basically the only response I ever got from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:00] And you’re referring to the story that came out in September about UC Berkeley sending the names of more than 150 students and faculty to the Trump administration as part of its investigation into alleged antisemitism on UC Berkeley’s campus and other universities around the country. Do you remember where you were when you learned that your name was shared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] I was somewhere in the hunger strike. I was like day 12 or something like that. I don’t remember exactly where I was, but I do remember that the reaction I had was just not surprised at all. I think it’s very clear to me that the only reason why my name is on there has nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with the fact that I’m outspoken about Palestine and that I’ve talked about it before. I mean, with the Trump administration, we already know that they weaponized antisemitism to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I’m a lecturer in the CS department at UC Berkeley, I am on day 22 of a hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation and stage five famine and genocide in Gaza. In the statement that I made to the UC regions where I went and told them that they had just reported me and that I wasn’t very pleased about it, I told them this action that they decided to take, it puts my safety at risk and it puts the safety of my family at risk. My family and I are a word for our safety because my name has been sold out to the Trump administration. And we’ve seen what they’ve done to try and crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I call on the… You see what the Trump administration does when they want to suppress speech. They will abduct people off the streets. They will try and cancel people’s visas and try and deport them just for speaking out about Palestine. And not even doing any sort of action, just like talking about it is enough to get you deported or abducted or thrown into ice prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:44] You decided to stop your hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:13:48] Yeah, well, that was sort of on advice from the people who helped organize the hunger strike behind the scenes, like medical teams and things like that. And they said that if you go any longer, there’s going to be permanent damage to your health. And that’s why we made the difficult decision to stop. But as I stop, I’m very well aware that I have a choice to stop and one of the things we’ve transitioned toward as we sort of left the hunger strike as an action and started to move toward other actions, we launched this fundraiser for someone we found in Gaza. So we threw some organizations we met up with someone in Gaza named Nadal Mohammed, and Nadal Mohammad and his team, they are providing food and water and basic care to these displaced families that are arriving at the camps in central Gaza. So we started this fundraiser because Nadal mentioned, we really just need money right now to afford the astronomical prices of food and Water. And while I had the choice to stop and I had resources to help me recover, people in Gaza don’t have those resources. And the best thing we can do now is to mitigate that by giving them at least some limited resource to find some relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:55] What do you think your hunger strike accomplished?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> has turned over information about 160 students and staff accused of antisemitism to the Trump administration, the university said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as the federal government continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034707/federal-antisemitism-investigations-california-higher-education-explained\">investigate allegations of antisemitism\u003c/a> on campuses, largely at those that have seen large pro-Palestinian demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley said it acted on the advice of the University of California’s attorneys in complying with the demand for information from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which investigates alleged discrimination on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education’s investigation is just one part of the Trump administration’s multipronged effort to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at the country’s top universities. 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They accused pro-Israel groups and officials of using legal tactics to silence Palestinian voices in the U.S. under the guise of combating hate, all while ignoring or abetting an Israeli assault on Gaza so dire that even the strip’s only \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">remaining\u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/joint-statement-on-gaza-from-afp-ap-bbc-reuters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> journalists\u003c/a>\u003c/span> are starving to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been forced to be traumatized, to witness this genocide, and to not have our government do anything about it,” said U.S. Army veteran and street medic Ethos de Leon, “and in fact what they’re doing is attacking good people that run this coffee shop and provide community resources instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spring, two separate Jewish patrons filed civil suits claiming that Harara kicked them out for wearing caps emblazoned with the \u003ca href=\"https://brandeiscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MAN-KICKED-OUT-OF-OAKLAND-CAFE-FOR-BEING-JEWISH-SUES-OWNER-2.pdf\">Star of David,\u003c/a> one with the additional phrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.beneschlaw.com/resources/benesch-and-adl-sue-cafe-for-discriminating-against-jewish-customer.html\">“Am Yisrael Chai”\u003c/a> or “the people of Israel live”. 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