The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) chapter in the San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) hosted the event.

At the event, activists with the anti-Israel group San Jose Against War promoted a petition that the group authored and was endorsed by CAIR-SFBA. The petition was in support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and was titled: "SAN JOSE CITY COUNCIL: DIVEST FROM ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINE!"

The petition claimed multiple times that Israel was committing a "genocide" in its war against Hamas. It further accused Israel of "colonization" and called for a policy commonly known as the "right of return."