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"content": "\u003cp>The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">one of the most influential advocacy groups in Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, with a self-declared mission to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this election season, AIPAC — a group whose focus in previous years was primarily lobbying members of Congress — has drawn national scrutiny for the large sums of money it has spent through its super political action committee (PAC), the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddemocracyproject.org/\">United Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">almost $10 million\u003c/a> supporting the opponent of New York’s Jamaal Bowman, a progressive incumbent critical of Israel who then lost his congressional seat. In August, another pro-Palestinian progressive, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, was ousted from her seat after the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">over $5 million\u003c/a> campaigning against her reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC and United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://cnsmaryland.org/2024/02/27/top-pro-israel-group-boosted-political-spending-after-oct-7-hamas-attacks/\">ramped up spending\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a cross-border attack into Southern Israel — killing more than 1,200 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/\">nonpartisan political finance tracker Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project increased its spending this election cycle by over $11 million, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">a total of $37 million\u003c/a> to target candidates in the 2024 election compared to the $26 million spent in \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2022?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this financial tracking also shows that AIPAC’s money has been flowing in California too — worrying pro-Palestinian advocates in the state who’ve spent over a year protesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a> that has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-mourns-children-killed-israeli-strike-death-toll-rises-2024-11-09/\">tens of thousands of Palestinians\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza\">displaced almost the entire population\u003c/a> — actions that a United Nations report says are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">consistent with genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where was AIPAC money spent in California this election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AIPAC, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/edge-of-the-abyss-the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-19491954/E1690BDB5CA87C66B2B65D12CA1D716A\">first founded as a lobby group in the 1950s\u003c/a>, has only begun to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/pro-israel-groups-gaza-us-elections\">actively participate in congressional campaigns\u003c/a> relatively recently with \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project super PAC\u003c/a> in 2021. In an interview with the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/trailer-your-hour-by-hour-guide-what-watch-four-states-tonight/\">AIPAC’s Chief Executive Howard Kohr\u003c/a> said that the super PAC would counter “the rise of a very vocal minority on the far left of the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, an AIPAC spokesperson said the results of the 2024 election “reflect America’s pro-Israel sentiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 5 million grassroots members have been deeply engaged in the democratic process to support Democratic and Republican candidates who stand with Israel, as it battles aggression from Iran and its terrorist proxies,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Democracy Project is one of the highest-spending super PACs in the U.S. — the biggest being Make America Great Again Inc., which spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=C00825851&cycle=2024\">$376 million\u003c/a> during the 2024 election. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">controversial \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em> ruling\u003c/a> in 2010, super PACS have no limit on how much money they can spend to influence elections through \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-understand-political-contributions-campaign-finance\">independently produced advertisements, messaging and events\u003c/a>. (Super PACs cannot, however, make \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">donations directly\u003c/a> to candidates like PACs can.) For example, the United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00832691&tab=donors\">contributed $5 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.standingstrongpac.com/\">Standing Strong\u003c/a>, a super PAC supporting Adam Schiff’s run for California senator. This support \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-arrested-at-adam-schiffs-burbank-office/\">sparked criticism\u003c/a> from pro-Palestinian activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Candidates do not control spending from outside organizations, and Senator-elect Schiff is one of the staunchest supporters of overturning \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em>, authoring the principle constitutional amendment to do so,” a Schiff campaign spokesperson said to KQED in an email. “Adam is grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support he received throughout his campaign and looks forward to representing all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Open Secrets, AIPAC and its affiliated PACs contributed over $200,000 to California congressional candidates in the 2024 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Open Secrets tracks individuals associated with AIPAC — including employees, members, and their immediate family — and how they donated. These donations totaled over $2.7 million in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the full amount of money given to California’s congressional candidates in the table below, with highlighting showing candidates from the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-XAwsS\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XAwsS/10/\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s recipients, incumbent Rep. Jimmy Panetta of the 19th District — which includes most of Santa Cruz county — received the most money from both AIPAC’s affiliate organizations and individuals associated with AIPAC. Panetta's constituents in Santa Cruz protested his ties to the pro-Israel lobby with \u003ca href=\"https://lookout.co/jimmy-panetta-israel-hamas-war-weeklong-sit-in-outside-congressional-office-marks-latest-pressure-on-panettas-israel-position/\">an August sit-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area recipients of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipacpac.org/winning-candidates-2024\">AIPAC PAC money\u003c/a> include Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Josh Harder, who also won their elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In SoCal, two key races see AIPAC spending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the United Democracy Project focused its largest spending on two congressional races. In Los Angeles County's 34th District, the super PAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">spent over $1.7 million supporting incumbent Jimmy Gomez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">$576,454 against\u003c/a> progressive challenger David Kim, who had called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim gained \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/california-us-house-district-34-results\">44% of the vote\u003c/a> — a decrease from 47% in 2020 and 49% in 2022. In an email to KQED, Kim said “outside AIPAC money contributed to” this loss, noting “the sheer amount of mailers and ads we saw flooding our mailboxes, computer screens and TV screens with AIPAC-UDP-paid ads boosting the incumbent, and attacking me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the United Democracy Project did not respond to KQED's repeated requests for comment for this story. When Gomez won the race, AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854528674810204195\">congratulated him on social media\u003c/a>, saying that they’d “proudly helped pro-Israel progressive leader Jimmy Gomez defeat a challenger who ran on an overtly anti-Israel platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-sT06p\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC super PAC spending on California 2024 congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sT06p/7/\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quite a different dynamic played out in the Southern California city of Irvine’s open-seat race for the 47th Congressional District, where Democrat Dave Min faced Republican Scott Baugh. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project spent over $4 million against Min, funding multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552\">television spots and mailers\u003c/a> attacking him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these ads did not touch on Israel or Palestinians at all, instead focusing on Min’s past drunk driving arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">surprised political analysts and pro-Palestinian activists\u003c/a>, since Min rarely commented on the siege of Gaza and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DemMaj4Israel/photos/dmfi-pac-is-thrilled-to-endorse-dave-min-as-he-seeks-to-represent-ca47-he-is-a-d/822853166667720/\">endorsed\u003c/a> by another pro-Israel advocacy group, Democratic Majority for Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/pro-israel-super-pac-california-house-election-00139786\">Min’s campaign claimed\u003c/a> that the opposition was driven by his private conversations with AIPAC members in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for security failures on Oct. 7 and said he opposed the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the considerable spending against him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/democrat-dave-min-defeats-scott-baugh-critical-california-house-race-rcna176912\">Min still won\u003c/a> the Orange County seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Good policy and good politics!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after Election Day, AIPAC celebrated that most candidates they'd endorsed won their races, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854901705361834451\">declaring on X\u003c/a> that “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">political analysts\u003c/a> note many candidates AIPAC has supported are \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">incumbents\u003c/a>, who historically are \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">more likely to win reelection\u003c/a>. And advertisements funded by AIPAC and its affiliates “actually don't really talk about the war in Gaza or U.S.-Israel relations,” according to \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reporter Joan Greve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='aipac' label='Political Breakdown']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “they choose to focus on other aspects” of a candidate they may be targeting — “particularly progressive candidates who they deem insufficiently supportive of Israel,” Greve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of AIPAC's financial influence has raised concerns for candidates critical of Israel’s government who fear being targeted by well-funded attack campaigns — with resources that pro-Palestinian advocacy groups don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the \u003ca href=\"https://jstreet.org/\">more liberal pro-Israel organization JStreet\u003c/a> whose PAC and affiliates also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/j-street/recipients?id=D000052457&t2-search=D-CA\">give significant amounts of money\u003c/a> targeting candidates throughout the country, AIPAC has shown \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Asp9f\">more support\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-netanyahu-11-2024-intl/index.html\">Netanyahu’s government and military\u003c/a>. The group has also leaned \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">much more right politically\u003c/a>, such as backing Republicans who attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">block President Joe Biden’s victory\u003c/a> on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stating that there is “no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, however, a spokesperson for AIPAC emphasized its support for members of groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/aipac-cbc-progressive-black-democrats/\">Congressional Black Caucus\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AIPAC/photos/aipac-proudly-supported-362-pro-israel-members-of-congress-and-candidates-this-e/1029499432541197/?_rdr\">Hispanic Caucus and the Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>, saying “it is entirely consistent with progressive values to stand with the Jewish state — the region’s only genuine democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to super PACs like the United Democracy Project, “we now have a much more deregulated campaign finance system than we had before,” said Richard Hasen, professor of political science at UCLA and the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/safeguarding-democracy-project\">Safeguarding Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super PACs allow the wealthy to have “undue influence” on campaigns of “people who are supposed to represent all of us,” said Los Angeles activist Estee Chandler of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, a group of Jewish activists that organizes for Palestinian human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the very, very problematic way that our election campaign financing has been set up,” she said. “We're something that resembles an oligarchy much more than an actual democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Secrets also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=donors_all\">tracks\u003c/a> who is donating to the United Democracy Project, and — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/\">the FEC\u003c/a> — has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup\">search tool to look up donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest donation to the super PAC came from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, who is based in San Mateo County. Koum donated $4 million in Sept. 2023 and then $1 million in Oct. 2023, after the Oct. 7 attacks. Koum also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-mayor-donors-19394260.php\">contributed $251,000\u003c/a> to Daniel Lurie, who went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013741/daniel-lurie-is-sfs-next-mayor\">win the San Francisco mayor’s race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the top ten highest donors to AIPAC’s super PAC below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-epmyV\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"10 largest Bay Area contributors to AIPAC's super PAC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/epmyV/3/\" height=\"545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are pro-Palestinian activists trying to do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As many Americans — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-americans-stand-out-in-their-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/\">especially younger ones\u003c/a> — show more sympathy for Palestinians, and Democrats become more willing to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/half-house-senate-democrats-boycott-netanyahu\">more criticism of Netanyahu’s government\u003c/a> than ever before, advocates are forming their own coalitions and \u003ca href=\"https://ajpaction.org/\">lobby groups\u003c/a> in an attempt to contend with AIPAC’s influence, even if they can't compete with their financial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent among these groups is \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/\">Reject AIPAC\u003c/a>, which has support from progressive PACs like \u003ca href=\"https://justicedemocrats.com/\">Justice Democrats\u003c/a>, minor political parties like the \u003ca href=\"https://workingfamilies.org/\">Working Families Party\u003c/a>, and activist groups like Jewish Voice for Peace. Reject AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/rejecters\">publicly lists\u003c/a> members of Congress who vow to turn down AIPAC donations — although none are from California. In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/pledge\">pledge\u003c/a>, the group says that “Domestically, AIPAC supports and amplifies far-right politicians and candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">including insurrectionists\u003c/a>, putting our very democracy at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also recently called out AIPAC’s donations, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AOC/status/1858275868336152645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858275868336152645%7Ctwgr%5E9cc6b5e241e830c30456b50ce40ad1b305758e0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Famerican-politics%2Farticle-829741\">special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda\u003c/a>,” in response to criticism of the Democrats’ 2024 political strategy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside tag='2024-election' label='More Election News']\u003c/span>Pro-Palestinian activism is “at a resource disadvantage against pro-militarism candidates,” said Samer Araabi, a member of San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/mission/\">pro-Palestinian advocacy group\u003c/a> Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) Action. But “what we have on our side is broad popular support,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx\">Seventy-seven percent of Democrat voters\u003c/a> disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, according to a Gallup poll this summer, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011429/these-gen-z-voters-are-choosing-kamala-harris-but-gaza-is-still-a-sticking-point\">some young voters\u003c/a> have cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014032/dispirited-and-humbled-the-conspicuous-absence-of-bay-area-protests-after-trumps-win\">U.S. support of Israel’s military\u003c/a> to explain their \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/\">lack of enthusiasm\u003c/a> about this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of AIPAC-level funding, AROC Action’s focus is on effecting change at the local level, said Araabi. The group endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/endorsements/\">Lateefah Simon\u003c/a>, who has made several public statements on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-12th-district\">decreasing a global military budget\u003c/a> and went on to win a congressional seat in District 12, which includes Oakland. According to Open Secrets, the United Democracy Project super PAC did not spend money against Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very clear that when I go into the halls of Congress, that we keep the value of peace central,” Simon told her supporters in her election night victory speech. “That we will never, ever support endless wars that kill children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressives like Simon will be serving under a second Trump administration — which may crack down \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/\">on the pro-Palestinian movement\u003c/a> in the United States given \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5050867/the-political-implications-of-netanyahus-meeting-with-trump\">Trump’s own connections with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. Many advocates are especially concerned about \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/\">bills like HR 9495\u003c/a>, which would allow the federal government to designate \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Terrorist-Financing-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">some nonprofit organizations\u003c/a> as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495\">terrorist supporting organizations\u003c/a>” and strip them of their tax-exempt status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, which would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-11/understanding-joint-resolutions-disapproval-arms-sales-israel\">blocked the sales of weapons\u003c/a> to the Israeli military, failed to pass. AIPAC had also \u003ca href=\"https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/aipac-ad-sanders-block-israel-arms/\">worked to denounce that bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi calls the post-election landscape “a dark moment” for activists like him, and sees the financial might of AIPAC as “a smaller part of a larger phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-cease-fire or pro-militarism candidates have access to a lot of money and resources because they have the backing of powerful corporate interests and things that benefit from the ongoing wars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Araabi, the question now is how pro-Palestinian advocates can mobilize that “broad popular support” that’s shown among many voters — and “inform the citizenry of what's going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they know, I feel like they vote accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">one of the most influential advocacy groups in Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, with a self-declared mission to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this election season, AIPAC — a group whose focus in previous years was primarily lobbying members of Congress — has drawn national scrutiny for the large sums of money it has spent through its super political action committee (PAC), the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddemocracyproject.org/\">United Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the March primary, the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">almost $10 million\u003c/a> supporting the opponent of New York’s Jamaal Bowman, a progressive incumbent critical of Israel who then lost his congressional seat. In August, another pro-Palestinian progressive, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, was ousted from her seat after the United Democracy Project spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">over $5 million\u003c/a> campaigning against her reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC and United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://cnsmaryland.org/2024/02/27/top-pro-israel-group-boosted-political-spending-after-oct-7-hamas-attacks/\">ramped up spending\u003c/a> after Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a cross-border attack into Southern Israel — killing more than 1,200 people and taking approximately 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/\">nonpartisan political finance tracker Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project increased its spending this election cycle by over $11 million, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">a total of $37 million\u003c/a> to target candidates in the 2024 election compared to the $26 million spent in \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2022?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this financial tracking also shows that AIPAC’s money has been flowing in California too — worrying pro-Palestinian advocates in the state who’ve spent over a year protesting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a> that has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-mourns-children-killed-israeli-strike-death-toll-rises-2024-11-09/\">tens of thousands of Palestinians\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza\">displaced almost the entire population\u003c/a> — actions that a United Nations report says are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">consistent with genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where was AIPAC money spent in California this election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AIPAC, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-american-history/article/edge-of-the-abyss-the-origins-of-the-israel-lobby-19491954/E1690BDB5CA87C66B2B65D12CA1D716A\">first founded as a lobby group in the 1950s\u003c/a>, has only begun to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/pro-israel-groups-gaza-us-elections\">actively participate in congressional campaigns\u003c/a> relatively recently with \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">AIPAC’s PAC and the United Democracy Project super PAC\u003c/a> in 2021. In an interview with the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/trailer-your-hour-by-hour-guide-what-watch-four-states-tonight/\">AIPAC’s Chief Executive Howard Kohr\u003c/a> said that the super PAC would counter “the rise of a very vocal minority on the far left of the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, an AIPAC spokesperson said the results of the 2024 election “reflect America’s pro-Israel sentiment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 5 million grassroots members have been deeply engaged in the democratic process to support Democratic and Republican candidates who stand with Israel, as it battles aggression from Iran and its terrorist proxies,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Democracy Project is one of the highest-spending super PACs in the U.S. — the biggest being Make America Great Again Inc., which spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=C00825851&cycle=2024\">$376 million\u003c/a> during the 2024 election. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">controversial \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em> ruling\u003c/a> in 2010, super PACS have no limit on how much money they can spend to influence elections through \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-understand-political-contributions-campaign-finance\">independently produced advertisements, messaging and events\u003c/a>. (Super PACs cannot, however, make \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained\">donations directly\u003c/a> to candidates like PACs can.) For example, the United Democracy Project \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00832691&tab=donors\">contributed $5 million\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.standingstrongpac.com/\">Standing Strong\u003c/a>, a super PAC supporting Adam Schiff’s run for California senator. This support \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-arrested-at-adam-schiffs-burbank-office/\">sparked criticism\u003c/a> from pro-Palestinian activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Candidates do not control spending from outside organizations, and Senator-elect Schiff is one of the staunchest supporters of overturning \u003cem>Citizens United\u003c/em>, authoring the principle constitutional amendment to do so,” a Schiff campaign spokesperson said to KQED in an email. “Adam is grateful for the outpouring of grassroots support he received throughout his campaign and looks forward to representing all Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Open Secrets, AIPAC and its affiliated PACs contributed over $200,000 to California congressional candidates in the 2024 election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Open Secrets tracks individuals associated with AIPAC — including employees, members, and their immediate family — and how they donated. These donations totaled over $2.7 million in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>View the full amount of money given to California’s congressional candidates in the table below, with highlighting showing candidates from the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-XAwsS\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XAwsS/10/\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\n\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s recipients, incumbent Rep. Jimmy Panetta of the 19th District — which includes most of Santa Cruz county — received the most money from both AIPAC’s affiliate organizations and individuals associated with AIPAC. Panetta's constituents in Santa Cruz protested his ties to the pro-Israel lobby with \u003ca href=\"https://lookout.co/jimmy-panetta-israel-hamas-war-weeklong-sit-in-outside-congressional-office-marks-latest-pressure-on-panettas-israel-position/\">an August sit-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area recipients of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipacpac.org/winning-candidates-2024\">AIPAC PAC money\u003c/a> include Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Josh Harder, who also won their elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In SoCal, two key races see AIPAC spending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, the United Democracy Project focused its largest spending on two congressional races. In Los Angeles County's 34th District, the super PAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">spent over $1.7 million supporting incumbent Jimmy Gomez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">$576,454 against\u003c/a> progressive challenger David Kim, who had called for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim gained \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/california-us-house-district-34-results\">44% of the vote\u003c/a> — a decrease from 47% in 2020 and 49% in 2022. In an email to KQED, Kim said “outside AIPAC money contributed to” this loss, noting “the sheer amount of mailers and ads we saw flooding our mailboxes, computer screens and TV screens with AIPAC-UDP-paid ads boosting the incumbent, and attacking me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the United Democracy Project did not respond to KQED's repeated requests for comment for this story. When Gomez won the race, AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854528674810204195\">congratulated him on social media\u003c/a>, saying that they’d “proudly helped pro-Israel progressive leader Jimmy Gomez defeat a challenger who ran on an overtly anti-Israel platform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-sT06p\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"AIPAC super PAC spending on California 2024 congressional races\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/sT06p/7/\" height=\"331\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quite a different dynamic played out in the Southern California city of Irvine’s open-seat race for the 47th Congressional District, where Democrat Dave Min faced Republican Scott Baugh. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=targeted_candidates\">Open Secrets\u003c/a>, the United Democracy Project spent over $4 million against Min, funding multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552\">television spots and mailers\u003c/a> attacking him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these ads did not touch on Israel or Palestinians at all, instead focusing on Min’s past drunk driving arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s strategy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">surprised political analysts and pro-Palestinian activists\u003c/a>, since Min rarely commented on the siege of Gaza and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DemMaj4Israel/photos/dmfi-pac-is-thrilled-to-endorse-dave-min-as-he-seeks-to-represent-ca47-he-is-a-d/822853166667720/\">endorsed\u003c/a> by another pro-Israel advocacy group, Democratic Majority for Israel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/pro-israel-super-pac-california-house-election-00139786\">Min’s campaign claimed\u003c/a> that the opposition was driven by his private conversations with AIPAC members in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for security failures on Oct. 7 and said he opposed the annexation of the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the considerable spending against him, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/democrat-dave-min-defeats-scott-baugh-critical-california-house-race-rcna176912\">Min still won\u003c/a> the Orange County seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Good policy and good politics!’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after Election Day, AIPAC celebrated that most candidates they'd endorsed won their races, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1854901705361834451\">declaring on X\u003c/a> that “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">political analysts\u003c/a> note many candidates AIPAC has supported are \u003ca href=\"https://jewishcurrents.org/aipac-spent-big-to-defeat-progressives-this-election-cycle\">incumbents\u003c/a>, who historically are \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/\">more likely to win reelection\u003c/a>. And advertisements funded by AIPAC and its affiliates “actually don't really talk about the war in Gaza or U.S.-Israel relations,” according to \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reporter Joan Greve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, “they choose to focus on other aspects” of a candidate they may be targeting — “particularly progressive candidates who they deem insufficiently supportive of Israel,” Greve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scale of AIPAC's financial influence has raised concerns for candidates critical of Israel’s government who fear being targeted by well-funded attack campaigns — with resources that pro-Palestinian advocacy groups don't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the \u003ca href=\"https://jstreet.org/\">more liberal pro-Israel organization JStreet\u003c/a> whose PAC and affiliates also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/j-street/recipients?id=D000052457&t2-search=D-CA\">give significant amounts of money\u003c/a> targeting candidates throughout the country, AIPAC has shown \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Asp9f\">more support\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-netanyahu-11-2024-intl/index.html\">Netanyahu’s government and military\u003c/a>. The group has also leaned \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">much more right politically\u003c/a>, such as backing Republicans who attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">block President Joe Biden’s victory\u003c/a> on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stating that there is “no moment for the pro-Israel movement to become selective about its friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, however, a spokesperson for AIPAC emphasized its support for members of groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2023/09/21/aipac-cbc-progressive-black-democrats/\">Congressional Black Caucus\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AIPAC/photos/aipac-proudly-supported-362-pro-israel-members-of-congress-and-candidates-this-e/1029499432541197/?_rdr\">Hispanic Caucus and the Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>, saying “it is entirely consistent with progressive values to stand with the Jewish state — the region’s only genuine democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to super PACs like the United Democracy Project, “we now have a much more deregulated campaign finance system than we had before,” said Richard Hasen, professor of political science at UCLA and the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/safeguarding-democracy-project\">Safeguarding Democracy Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Super PACs allow the wealthy to have “undue influence” on campaigns of “people who are supposed to represent all of us,” said Los Angeles activist Estee Chandler of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jvpaction.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace Action\u003c/a>, a group of Jewish activists that organizes for Palestinian human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the very, very problematic way that our election campaign financing has been set up,” she said. “We're something that resembles an oligarchy much more than an actual democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open Secrets also \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=donors_all\">tracks\u003c/a> who is donating to the United Democracy Project, and — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/\">the FEC\u003c/a> — has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup\">search tool to look up donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest donation to the super PAC came from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, who is based in San Mateo County. Koum donated $4 million in Sept. 2023 and then $1 million in Oct. 2023, after the Oct. 7 attacks. Koum also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-mayor-donors-19394260.php\">contributed $251,000\u003c/a> to Daniel Lurie, who went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013741/daniel-lurie-is-sfs-next-mayor\">win the San Francisco mayor’s race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the top ten highest donors to AIPAC’s super PAC below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-epmyV\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"10 largest Bay Area contributors to AIPAC's super PAC\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/epmyV/3/\" height=\"545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\" data-external=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(\"iframe\");for(var t in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var r=0;r\u003ce.length;r++)if(e[r].contentWindow===a.source){var i=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][t]+\"px\";e[r].style.height=i}}}))}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are pro-Palestinian activists trying to do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As many Americans — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-americans-stand-out-in-their-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/\">especially younger ones\u003c/a> — show more sympathy for Palestinians, and Democrats become more willing to express \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/half-house-senate-democrats-boycott-netanyahu\">more criticism of Netanyahu’s government\u003c/a> than ever before, advocates are forming their own coalitions and \u003ca href=\"https://ajpaction.org/\">lobby groups\u003c/a> in an attempt to contend with AIPAC’s influence, even if they can't compete with their financial power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent among these groups is \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/\">Reject AIPAC\u003c/a>, which has support from progressive PACs like \u003ca href=\"https://justicedemocrats.com/\">Justice Democrats\u003c/a>, minor political parties like the \u003ca href=\"https://workingfamilies.org/\">Working Families Party\u003c/a>, and activist groups like Jewish Voice for Peace. Reject AIPAC \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/rejecters\">publicly lists\u003c/a> members of Congress who vow to turn down AIPAC donations — although none are from California. In their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rejectaipac.org/pledge\">pledge\u003c/a>, the group says that “Domestically, AIPAC supports and amplifies far-right politicians and candidates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/aipac-pro-israel-group-backs-insurrectionist-republicans\">including insurrectionists\u003c/a>, putting our very democracy at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also recently called out AIPAC’s donations, calling it a “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AOC/status/1858275868336152645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858275868336152645%7Ctwgr%5E9cc6b5e241e830c30456b50ce40ad1b305758e0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Famerican-politics%2Farticle-829741\">special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda\u003c/a>,” in response to criticism of the Democrats’ 2024 political strategy.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>Pro-Palestinian activism is “at a resource disadvantage against pro-militarism candidates,” said Samer Araabi, a member of San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/mission/\">pro-Palestinian advocacy group\u003c/a> Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) Action. But “what we have on our side is broad popular support,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx\">Seventy-seven percent of Democrat voters\u003c/a> disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, according to a Gallup poll this summer, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011429/these-gen-z-voters-are-choosing-kamala-harris-but-gaza-is-still-a-sticking-point\">some young voters\u003c/a> have cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014032/dispirited-and-humbled-the-conspicuous-absence-of-bay-area-protests-after-trumps-win\">U.S. support of Israel’s military\u003c/a> to explain their \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/\">lack of enthusiasm\u003c/a> about this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of AIPAC-level funding, AROC Action’s focus is on effecting change at the local level, said Araabi. The group endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://arocaction.org/endorsements/\">Lateefah Simon\u003c/a>, who has made several public statements on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-12th-district\">decreasing a global military budget\u003c/a> and went on to win a congressional seat in District 12, which includes Oakland. According to Open Secrets, the United Democracy Project super PAC did not spend money against Simon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very clear that when I go into the halls of Congress, that we keep the value of peace central,” Simon told her supporters in her election night victory speech. “That we will never, ever support endless wars that kill children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressives like Simon will be serving under a second Trump administration — which may crack down \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/\">on the pro-Palestinian movement\u003c/a> in the United States given \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/26/nx-s1-5050867/the-political-implications-of-netanyahus-meeting-with-trump\">Trump’s own connections with Netanyahu\u003c/a>. Many advocates are especially concerned about \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/\">bills like HR 9495\u003c/a>, which would allow the federal government to designate \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2022-National-Terrorist-Financing-Risk-Assessment.pdf\">some nonprofit organizations\u003c/a> as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9495\">terrorist supporting organizations\u003c/a>” and strip them of their tax-exempt status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, which would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-11/understanding-joint-resolutions-disapproval-arms-sales-israel\">blocked the sales of weapons\u003c/a> to the Israeli military, failed to pass. AIPAC had also \u003ca href=\"https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/aipac-ad-sanders-block-israel-arms/\">worked to denounce that bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araabi calls the post-election landscape “a dark moment” for activists like him, and sees the financial might of AIPAC as “a smaller part of a larger phenomenon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anti-cease-fire or pro-militarism candidates have access to a lot of money and resources because they have the backing of powerful corporate interests and things that benefit from the ongoing wars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Araabi, the question now is how pro-Palestinian advocates can mobilize that “broad popular support” that’s shown among many voters — and “inform the citizenry of what's going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they know, I feel like they vote accordingly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco judge sentenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-depape\">David Wayne DePape\u003c/a> to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday morning for kidnapping and other felony charges related to the attack on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002363/callousness-of-paul-pelosi-attack-justifies-potential-life-sentence-judge-says\">Judge Harry Dorfman\u003c/a> ordered that DePape, 44, serve his sentence concurrently with the 30-year sentence a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">handed him in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went in to attack a leader of our federal government. I can’t ignore that fact,” Dorfman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court, Christine Pelosi read a statement from her father, Paul, whom DePape attacked with a hammer. She read that Oct. 28, 2022, was the last peaceful night sleep he had before being awoken in the early morning to DePape standing over him, yelling, “Where’s Nancy?” a phrase he said still echoes in his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape, who has embraced conspiracy theories about “Russiagate” and others, told Paul Pelosi he was on “a political mission” because of the House speaker’s treatment of Donald Trump. He wanted to film a video of her confessing to crimes, but she wasn’t home. Instead, he hit Paul in the head with a hammer as Capitol police responded to the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t remove the stain in the front entryway where I bled,” Paul Pelosi wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He described still dealing with dizziness, vertigo and a sense of fear shared with spouses of other elected officials since the unprecedented attack. The Pelosis don’t answer their door or phone, and Nancy Pelosi remains under 24-hour security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole Pelosi family wanted the fullest punishment possible, Christine Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987892/paul-pelosis-attacker-apologizes-at-resentencing-but-prison-term-is-unchanged\">federal sentencing\u003c/a>, DePape apologized to Paul Pelosi, who wasn’t in the courtroom then or at Tuesday’s hearing in state court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DePape took a much more conspiratorial route on Tuesday, starting with a single sentence: “9/11 was an inside job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next hour, DePape meandered through conspiracy theories involving 9/11, COVID-19 and the 2020 election, even calling those convicted and charged with crimes following Jan. 6 “political prisoners.” He claimed to have psychic abilities and said his ex-wife — fellow “9/11 truther” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990966/state-case-against-man-who-attacked-nancy-pelosis-husband-is-in-jurys-hands\">Gypsy Taub\u003c/a> — had been replaced by a body double.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman repeatedly asked DePape if he wanted to address issues related to his charges, trial or sentence, but DePape kept returning to unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not hear any expression of remorse,” Dorfman said when DePape finished his statement. “If you tried to persuade me in your remarks, Mr. DePape, you did not persuade me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11996329 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Adam Lipson said DePape suffered from schizotypal personality disorder, which affects his ability to maintain personal relationships and makes him distrustful of others. He received that diagnosis after the attack on the Pelosi home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a man who lived a very solitary life and got involved in a lot of online conspiracy theory and engagement farming, and given his mental health condition, it led him to sort of these intractable beliefs which he’s expressed and fully believes in,” Lipson told reporters after the hearing. “His condition, combined with the sort of just kind of the terrible stuff that’s out there, just seeking engagement with people, led him down this horrible path, and this is where we wound up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the sentencing, Lipson again argued for a new trial, saying the ransom enhancement of the kidnapping charge that carried the mandatory life sentence was brought as part of a “vindictive prosecution” after he asked a judge to dismiss three charges, including attempted murder, which carried a mandatory sentence of life with the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense successfully argued that DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987752/depape-faces-new-state-charges-defense-argues-double-jeopardy\">facing double jeopardy\u003c/a> — or being tried twice for the same crimes — in state court after being convicted in federal court of similar crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipson argued that the timing of the kidnapping charge after the trial had already begun showed prosecutors’ vindictiveness. 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Nancy Pelosi on Oct. 28, 2022, in San Francisco. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, was violently beaten by an intruder. Pelosi was not at home at the time of the attack. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DePape’s defense in both the federal and local prosecution hinged on why he targeted Nancy Pelosi. His attorneys argued unsuccessfully that he was motivated not by her position as a public official but by her activities as a politician. Judges and juries in both cases rejected that distinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also argued against the ransom-related enhancement in the kidnapping charge. 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It was brought at the last minute in retaliation for his asserting his federal due process rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipson said those and other issues with the case will be brought up on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should those appeals be successful, Dorfman said he wants the appellate court to have DePape resentenced in his courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the hearing, Dorfman said he had no control over DePape’s federal sentence, which he will complete before serving his life sentence on state charges, and no control over what a future president might do, implying a second Trump administration could involve a pardon for DePape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no authority over what the president of the country can do,” Dorfman said. “I can’t predict the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He received that diagnosis after the attack on the Pelosi home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a man who lived a very solitary life and got involved in a lot of online conspiracy theory and engagement farming, and given his mental health condition, it led him to sort of these intractable beliefs which he’s expressed and fully believes in,” Lipson told reporters after the hearing. “His condition, combined with the sort of just kind of the terrible stuff that’s out there, just seeking engagement with people, led him down this horrible path, and this is where we wound up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the sentencing, Lipson again argued for a new trial, saying the ransom enhancement of the kidnapping charge that carried the mandatory life sentence was brought as part of a “vindictive prosecution” after he asked a judge to dismiss three charges, including attempted murder, which carried a mandatory sentence of life with the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense successfully argued that DePape was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987752/depape-faces-new-state-charges-defense-argues-double-jeopardy\">facing double jeopardy\u003c/a> — or being tried twice for the same crimes — in state court after being convicted in federal court of similar crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipson argued that the timing of the kidnapping charge after the trial had already begun showed prosecutors’ vindictiveness. 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"content": "\u003cp>A state judge has set the final sentencing hearing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-depape\">David Wayne DePape\u003c/a> for Oct. 29, two years and a day after he broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home in a plot to kidnap the then-House speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Harry Dorfman said Thursday that DePape qualifies for the strictest punishments allowed by law after finding he is “a danger to society” for the “callousness” shown during his hammer attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul, in October 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">convicted DePape\u003c/a>, 44, of five felony counts in June. One of those was for kidnapping involving a ransom, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, making DePape’s sentences for the other felonies all but moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant District Attorney Phoebe Maffei argued in court on Thursday morning that DePape should face the strictest penalties at his sentencing, using enhancements built into California criminal law. Those included that he acted with a “high degree of cruelty, viciousness, or callousness,” that Paul Pelosi — who was 82 and recovering from knee surgery at the time — couldn’t defend himself, and that DePape used a high level of planning to orchestrate the attack, making him a danger to society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to trial testimony, DePape took BART from the East Bay to the Pelosis’ Pacific Heights home in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2022. He planned to interrogate the House speaker regarding Russiagate, a debunked conspiracy theory regarding the investigations into Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, but she wasn’t home at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/DePape_verdict.jpg\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch shows a white man with a ponytail holding his hands together as he looks down sullenly in a courtroom. 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Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>. “I’m really, really proud of our coalition and grateful to my colleagues for understanding that, when it comes to technology, innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive. They complement each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill would enact safeguards to prevent AI from being used to conduct cyberattacks on critical infrastructure or develop chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. After passing the assembly and getting another stamp of approval from the senate, the bill goes to Gov. 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Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Pelosi — also spoke out in an effort to kill the bill. Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. Worse, by making it harder for developers to release open AI models, it will hamper researchers’ ability to study cutting-edge AI and spot problems, and therefore will make AI less safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why California lawmakers have pursued dozens of AI bills focused on discrete issues, compared to the European Union and the state of Colorado, which opted for comprehensive legislation, Wiener said, “California’s system is different than these other jurisdictions. We don’t tend to pick a subject matter and do ten different issues combined. We introduce individual bills. We work very hard to harmonize them,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the pros and cons of this approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That measure is on the state Assembly floor for a vote after passing through the Assembly Appropriations Committee along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AI have warned that SB 1047 could stifle the growth of the technology in California. And they’ve rallied three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi — to aid their efforts to kill the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill informed,” Pelosi wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-opposition-california-senate-bill-1047\">open letter\u003c/a> published last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re simply requiring these labs to perform the safety testing that they have repeatedly and publicly committed to perform,” said state Sen. 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Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\"> massive budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “I’m not interested in passing a symbolic bill. I would not agree to amendments that would make it weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic is the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"ai\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft told KQED it has not taken a position on the bill. Robyn Hines, senior director of state government affairs, wrote that the company would prefer federal legislation but “will continue to work with Senator Wiener and others on legislation that will help harness AI’s full potential and advance sensible safety and security protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Wiener’s measure has received public criticism from respected industry voices like Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\"> post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\"> on X\u003c/a>, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we’re exploring paths to the make the bill less bad because a bad bill is better than a very bad bill, but I feel that fundamentally, by regulating hypothetical risks of the technology rather than concrete risks of actual applications, I don’t think this bill will make AI safer,” Ng told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building the next generation of AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics like Ng, who is the managing general partner of AI Funds, argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will discourage big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Silicon Valley, do we want startups spending money to write code and build products for people? Or do we want those startups hiring lawyers and hiring auditors and hiring consultants to clarify legal ambiguity to guard against purely hypothetical risks?” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a substantial faction of the AI community, though, that is concerned about hypothetical risks. In an\u003ca href=\"https://safesecureai.org/experts\"> open letter\u003c/a>, four prominent tech policy thinkers praised SB 1047. “Relative to the scale of risks we are facing, this is a remarkably light-touch piece of legislation,” they wrote.[aside label=\"Technology Coverage\" tag=\"technology\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of really eminent scientists who are worried and are taking these risks seriously,” said Nathan Calvin, senior policy counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People don’t need to believe the “AI-terminator-wakes-up-and-kills-everyone scenarios are plausible in order to support this bill,” Calvin said, adding that generative AI is capable of relatively banal catastrophic impacts, like enabling hackers and foreign states to take down critical infrastructure or designing and deploying bio-weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Wiener’s bill say opponents are asking Californians to trust Silicon Valley to self-regulate despite a demonstrated history of failing to do so, especially in regard to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844163/proposition-24-californians-say-yes-to-expanding-on-nations-toughest-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data privacy\u003c/a> and monitoring hate speech on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive,” Wiener said. “We can do both, and the public wants us to do both. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994004/after-trump-shooting-california-republicans-hope-to-turn-down-the-burner-at-convention\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend has awakened national memories of violence across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several Bay Area leaders, the shooting served as a reminder that threats they receive — which, by several accounts, have escalated in recent years — are real and dangerous. Political rhetoric is increasingly divisive and violent, and research shows members of marginalized groups are disproportionately targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the assassination attempt stirred painful memories of the city’s most notorious act of political violence: the 1978 shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former colleague in City Hall. More recently, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">attacked\u003c/a> in the family’s Pacific Heights home by a man who was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">radicalized by conspiracy theories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. Rigel Robinson wrote in a column published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the job and associated backlash left him in a “perpetual state of stress and exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that says 'Save people's park' is hung between trees, next to a tent, in a park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mounting instances of threats and political violence are especially concerning in an increasingly tense election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans “say that political violence would be acceptable in at least some circumstances,” according to Shirin Sinnar, a legal scholar on political violence at Stanford Law. [aside postID=news_11994004 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/RNC2024-1020x680.jpg']Political violence has escalated across the political spectrum, she said, “but right-wing attacks [are] actually more frequent and far more deadly in terms of lives lost in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the nature of the threats he receives from right-wing actors is more violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get criticized by both extremes on the left and the right, and I get sometimes harshly criticized. But the death threats I receive, it’s only one side — it’s from the extreme right,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned against “both-sidesing” the blame for increasing violent rhetoric following Trump’s assassination attempt, recalling that after the attack on Paul Pelosi, Republicans and Democrats did not exactly come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people on the right are being so aggressive and self-righteous about the [Trump] attack, falsely claiming that Democrats somehow instigated this violence — which I think is very untrue,” Wiener told KQED. “These are some of the same people who made fun of Paul Pelosi for being brutalized almost to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alex Gonzalez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. 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She rarely speaks out of turn, which is why her comments Wednesday – and last week, when she said that concerns about the president’s mental fitness are a “legitimate question” – raised eyebrows. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to CBS after her MSNBC interview, Pelosi sought to clarify her comments, saying “there are some misrepresentations of what I have said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never said he should reconsider his decision. The decision is the president’s,” she said. “I don’t know what’s happened in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> that they make up news. But if that’s why you’re here, it isn’t true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Pelosi’s press secretary Ian Krager reiterated that the former speaker supports whatever Biden decides to do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must turn our attention to why this race is so important: Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country and our democracy,” Krager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her comments on Biden’s future, Pelosi told MSNBC that she attended his remarks at the NATO summit on Tuesday and that he was “spectacular,” delivering his speech with “force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president has been a great president. I can tell you firsthand, as a person who orchestrated many of the pieces of legislation that the president takes great pride in — and he should,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi suggested that Democrats’ conversation around Biden, whom she called “beloved” by the caucus, should wait until after the NATO summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said to everyone, ‘Let’s just hold off whatever you’re thinking. Either tell somebody privately, but you don’t have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi is not the only member of California’s Democratic establishment to express concern. On Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff, who’s running for the Senate, said it’s understandable that Biden’s debate performance has raised questions about whether he can win against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One prominent Democrat who hasn’t wavered publicly in his support of the president, though, is Gov. Gavin Newsom. He was in New Hampshire this week, stumping for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla has also been firm in his support for the president. When asked about Pelosi’s comments by MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balarte, Padilla said Biden had given his answer about staying in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to move forward, because the more time and energy we commit to questioning or wondering is time and energy we need to be focusing on reaching out to voters,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Barbara Lee, who represents Oakland, also spoke about Biden’s reelection campaign Tuesday on the BBC World Service. She said that despite Biden’s “horrible” debate performance, the party should be focused on beating Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joe Biden has indicated that he is going to run, and I’m glad he is,” she told BBC. “Do [voters] want four years of a convicted felon or not? 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