Anonymous activists on Saturday displayed a large banner in Palestinian colors on the side of Twin Peaks that read “End U.S. aid to Israel” and could be seen across San Francisco.
The activists wrote in a statement that they were “urging an end to U.S. funding for Israel’s killing of over 100,000 Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians.”
The statement said “dozens of self-organized community members” installed the 50-by-120 foot banner over the course of about 10 minutes on Saturday.
The banner was displayed at the same location as the annual “Pink Triangle,” a monument that has been put up every Pride weekend since 1996. The triangle is meant to be a “visible yet mute reminder of man’s inhumanity to man,” according to its organizers.
By the evening, the red, black and green arms-embargo banner had been dismantled.
The activists called out the “genocide in Gaza” and said Israel is “blockading supplies for food, medicine, and shelter, while continuing to bomb and shoot people on a daily basis.” The United Nations on Friday said an average of 47 women and girls were killed a day in Israel’s war on Gaza, a total of 38,000 from October 2023 to December 2025.
The Gaza ministry of health reported about 73,000 people killed since Israel’s bombardment began after Oct. 7, 2023, and another 172,000 injured. About 2,300 people have been killed in Lebanon in the latest attacks, and more than 3,600 in Iran.
“Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and Lebanon has dragged the U.S. and the entire Middle East into all-out war,” wrote one of the activists in the press release. “But we are telling our community that even though things are chaotic, the solution is simple: End U.S. aid to Israel.”
The release said many weapons were “being sent straight out of the Bay Area” to Israel and urged people to support the Oakland Peoples’ Arms Embargo, a campaign led by Arab and Palestinian groups targeting the Oakland port for allowing military cargo shipments to Israel.
American views on Israel have grown sharply negative over the last three years. Sixty percent of Americans now say they have an unfavorable view of the country, according to Pew, up from 42 percent in 2022. For Democrats, that reaches 80 percent.
Those views are increasingly reflected in Congress: More than three dozen Democratic senators on Wednesday joined an effort led by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel. They said the United States must stop facilitating what has become an unpopular war with Iran, as well as Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Lebanon.
The Senate effort was ultimately unsuccessful; it was voted down by all Republicans. But more Democratic senators voted against weapons sales to Israel than had before.
