Less than two weeks earlier, a young couple was shot to death while leaving an event at the Jewish Museum in Washington. And after last week’s anti-ICE protests in San Francisco, Manny’s — a cafe, bar and event space — was vandalized with graffiti and smashed windows.
“The Jewish community that I speak to here in the Bay Area is terrified,” Drenick said. “We are seeing the vandalism. We are seeing hate speech. We’re seeing the assaults that are taking place across the country and here at home — looking at the FBI data — reading what is happening in the news, and it culminates into this sense of our community being targeted.”
Antisemitic hate crimes more than doubled between 2021 and 2023, according to the FBI.
Drenick called for the Bay Area to join together and condemn the attacks.
“We need our allies, our elected representatives, our faith leaders and our neighbors to stand up and say this is not acceptable and this form of hate and bigotry is dangerous and must be condemned in the strongest of words,” she said.
SFPD arrested Juan Diazrivas, 36, in association with the attack and booked him in county jail on assault charges. Another man, who was not identified, was also arrested.
