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Tweto https://x.com/MichaelKarlis/status/2056795237540925858
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
This feels kind of like the “I’m not touching you” of antisemitism. Like as much as American zionists have poisoned the well by conflating antizionism with antisemitism, you have to kind of side-eye just replacing standard fare antisemitic tropes with “Jewish zionists”. You can say it’s not about Jewishness, but it’s starting to ring pretty hollow when it just seems like a find and replace.
Not to mention that, even taking this at face value, most zionists are just people who have been propagandized for decades and haven’t thought enough about important issues to break away from it, not people who are buying Palestinian homes or crowdfunding Israeli terrorism. A lot of people are wrong about pretty serious moral issues, that doesn’t mean that repurposing concentration camps is now a cool idea.
This person just seems like blue MTG.
She never mentioned camps she mentioned prisons and she talked about putting only criminal rich zionist in jail. The find and replace argument is bullshit and bad faith. It assume the potentiality that any person can hide antisemitism or any other form of racism by saying Zionists.
One can say isis are muslims extremists and not being accused of using an Islamophobic trope
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