Lee Heidhues 10.16.2023
Brooke Jenkins is the political creature who rode into office after engaging in blatant Red Baiting to drive her predecessor Chesa Boudin from office in a 2022 Recall election laden with heavy undertones of antisemitism.
The San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has once again proved herself to be an embarrassment to San Francisco with her strident attacks on thousands of citizens advocating for the Palestinian people.
The DA’s social media posts were so over the top and incendiary that she was forced to delete them following a firestorm of criticism.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 10.16.2023
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has deleted a tweet in which she characterized a rally in support of Palestinians as a “pro-Hamas” event.
In a joint statement distributed on Monday morning, several organizations condemned San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins Jenkins’ post and analogized it to anti-Muslim rhetoric believed to have motivated the deadly stabbing of a 6 year-old Muslim boy in Illinois.
Wassim Hage, outreach coordinator for the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco, accused Jenkins of intentional misrepresentation by conflating peaceful protesters with antisemitism and with a militant organization that the U.S. has on its terrorist watch list. The statement co-authored by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center noted, also, that Jenkins had cited no evidence tying the rally to the “Death to Israel” graffiti.
“The characterization is deliberately and recklessly incorrect,” Hage said, referring to the district attorney’s posts. He and others demanded accountability in the form of a public censure, a retraction, and possibly a probe by Breed’s office and the Board of Supervisors.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/brooke-jenkins-hamas-tweet-deleted-18428837.php
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