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House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp
Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this week pledged to transform a site south of San Antonio now used by the Trump administration to detain migrants into an internment camp for “American Zionists.”
“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”
Galindo’s latest set of inflammatory remarks comes as the Democratic hopeful for Texas’ newly redrawn 35th Congressional District continues to draw national attention for remarks critics have called antisemitic and untethered from reality. The controversy is snowballing as she heads into the May 26 Democratic primary runoff.
Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent — former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia — of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews. She also pledged during a Texas Public Radio interview to put Garcia on trial for treason.
Beyond her attacks on Garcia, Galindo has continued to promote the narrative that a cabal of Jewish zionists controls Hollywood, the media and even local politicians.
Even so, in comments to the Current and other media outlets, Galindo maintained she only has an issue with zionists, or those advocating for the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland, rather than Jews in general.
“I think it’s actually the zionists who are putting Jewish people at the most risk,” Galindo told the Current last week.
AOC has denouced her
I have done no investigation
This person may be on the up-and-up, but I always worry about language like this being used by actual antisemites to backdoor their shit. IMHO Strasserites like ACP will be the biggest struggle for Marxist groups in the US over the next few years, and I just frankly don't trust anyone who says things that sound good but doesn't combine it with explicit theory. Tucker Carlson and MTG can also rail against Zionists.
Castrating Zionists might be a good sound byte, but without explicitly saying you include evangelicals and oligarchs like Musk, feels "dog whistley". I know her opponent is a fucking ghoul so I don't put much credence in the pearl clutching rhetoric against her.
Not in her district. If I were I would do some real investigation and form a real opinion instead of this vibes-based analysis.
It appears that she's actually got the correct definition of Zionist judging by some instagram posts where she explicitly states "putting billionaire zionists in prison does not mean putting all Jews in internment camps", but the fact that she has to go on the defensive and clarify that is not great. Like it's easy enough to say the phrase "Billionaire Zionists like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein" just to send it home a bit.
from my understanding she's a tenant union organizer, dont think you can put her anywhere close to tucker carlson and mtg. my impression is that she's a left wing woo woo person which is where some of the antisemetic ideas/soundbites come from