Assume, for the moment, that you are a true-blue DSA radical, but shortly after the October 7th attacks, you were naive enough to believe that Hamas and its supporters were not exactly the good guys?
And, being a busybody state legislator, when some constituents call to report antisemitic protesters, you try to sic the police on them?
What happens when you run for governor? Sure, you oppose free speech, as all good totalitarians do, but you chose the "wrong" side to go after, making you a génocidaire by extension.
That's the political problem that Francesca Hong is facing.
Hong is as true-blue a socialist as you could hope for. She wants just as much destruction of Western values and social peace as any good socialist would. She embraces Hasan Piker, who is as bloodthirsty as any DSA communist would ever want, and even embraces Mao and Lenin.
Now that she is in the lead in the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, Hong is having to walk back her all-too-sympathetic treatment of her Jewish constituents.
Democratic candidate for governor Francesca Hong, the leftist in the race, called 911 on an anti-Israeli protest display in 2023, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The democratic socialist and frontrunner in the primary reported a protest display featuring a paint-splattered Israeli flag — a decision she told the outlet she regrets.
In late December 2023, Hong called Madison police twice to report a “highly antisemitic act” that she wanted to be “potentially investigated as a hate crime,” according to the police report obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
Hong, who represents part of downtown Madison as a member of the State Assembly, was sent a photograph of the protest display featuring an Israeli flag and fake bodies splattered with red paint.
Portions of Hong’s calls to police have been posted to TikTok in recent months.
“Three years ago, there was a piece of protest art at the encampments in Madison, which was photographed and posted to social media,” Hong said in a statement. “My constituents reported they felt threatened and alerted me to the social post, but the image was cropped and incomplete to misrepresent anti-Zionism as antisemitism – a distinction I take seriously.
“Based on their concerns for their safety and my incomplete information, I did something I regret deeply: I called the police and asked them to look into it. This turned out to be a mistake because the image posted to social media was intentionally misleading. I believe in free speech. I support a free Palestine. The genocide in Gaza and the colonization of the West Bank must end.”
Hong also texted Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway about the display, according to the report. Records also include a call to the non-emergency line from former Madison Ald. MGR Govindarajan, who represented the area on the City Council.
The irony is thick in this story. First of all, as offensive as the display was to Jews, nobody was breaking the law or committing an act of violence. This falls firmly into the category of political speech, and is nothing at all like the crimes committed minute by minute by anti-ICE protesters or the people who "occupy" buildings and harass Jews in support of Hamas.
Protecting violent criminals by attacking federal agents, trashing property, threatening to murder people, and the like are "First Amendment activities," but putting up a display of a flag with paint splattered on it required the police to spring into action?
Sorry, even though I support Israel and the Jews, that strikes me as tyrannical, and just what you would expect from a DSA speech policer.
Then, of course, is her political problem: she's just not antisemitic enough for her supporters. As we all know, if you don't support the genocide of the Jews, you are collaborators with Israel according to the DSA, and Israelis defending themselves against terrorists is nothing short of genocide.
Hatred of Israel is the price of entrance for the left these days, and Hong must go through the same self-abasement that every deviant from the approved set of opinions must be put through public shaming.
Hong has been working hard to beg for forgiveness for her ideological deviancy ever since.
“While exercising my first amendment rights to petition my government and complying with all laws my private property was unlawfully seized by Madison Police department without due process for political speech,” Ransom wrote in a complaint filed with the police over the incident.
Ransom confronted Hong about the incident during an event in June 2024 and later shared a recording of their conversation with the Journal Sentinel.
“I did not know there was a ‘ceasefire now’ sign,” Hong told Ransom. She said the campaign staffer who informed her about the incident was “deeply upset” and that she also heard from “community members who agreed that it was something we should try to take down.”
Ransom responded that the display was “free speech directed at Tammy Baldwin,” to which Hong replied, “Absolutely.”
Hong acknowledged her regret over the incident, telling Ransom, “I regret calling the police. I regret having that taken down.” She said she had sought to make amends through her subsequent actions, including introducing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and sponsoring legislation to repeal Wisconsin’s anti-BDS law. The law, enacted under former Gov. Scott Walker, prohibits state and local governments from participating in boycotts of Israel.
Hong is currently leading, or nearly tied with, the former Lieutenant Governor in the Democratic nomination race, Mandela Barnes, and she hasn't walked back any of her radical positions. She still supports defunding the police, is proud of her DSA links, and, of course, now embraces Hasan Piker.
That has propelled her to the top of the pack. Now we'll see if she survives this "scandal." Barnes has a long history of Israel-hating, but there are rumors that he isn't nearly as antisemitic as he makes out. There are rumors that he has accepted donations from lefty Jews.
My suggestion to Democrats who want to win Democratic primaries?
Get a Nazi tattoo. That helps.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/07/democrats-have-gone-the-antisemitism-rathole-this-far-n3816699
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