Watch: Activists jeer Jewish man as he describes family lost in Israel on Oct. 7

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A man testifying about the family he lost in the Israel-Hamas war was jeered at by protestors at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting to pass a controversial compromise resolution calling for a ceasefire and a release of Israeli hostages, video and reports show.

The man describes losing five family members at Kibbutz Be'eri, including two who were kidnapped on Oct. 7, during Hamas's attack targeting Israeli civilians in video released by the advocacy group Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area.

"This resolution does one thing -- it fuels antisemitism and hatred as exemplified in this room right now," the man said. "Listen! The pig noises and everything else. This is pure antisemitism."

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According to a report from The Jewish News of Northern California, those who opposed the resolution said it didn't do enough to condemn Hamas violence.

“I don’t know how you have a cease-fire with a terrorist organization that has recently said it would commit Oct. 7 again and again if it could,” Supervisor Catherine Stefani said, adding that she would not support the resolution because it did not “call for the removal of Hamas.”

The Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Marc Levine, said "I was once an Assembly member and I never aligned myself with people that were the angriest and the ones that have called for violence."

"That was repellent for me and I think that's what our communities are looking for...as for our elected leaders to have a moral clarity, to condemn this violence and disassociate themselves from it," Levine said.

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