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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
Yeah, I probably should've mentioned that. Historically, things like that have always been used to target the LGBTQ community, so it wasn't just the first statement, but that statement in combination with this other one that made it suspicious to me. Like one thing is probably just someone accidentally saying something that sounds like a dogwhistle (they pick common words and phrases for a reason after all) but multiple potential dogwhistles is what makes me suspicious. It is probably nothing but people here have been fooled by Patsocs before, so I'm still going to be cautious around this sort of rhetoric.
Its what makes me agree with the idea that shes doing this as a publicity stunt since shes not part of the establishment democrats and probably never will be after this.
I just wanted to comment also on how she used the "American Zionist" qualifier as well as "internment camp" which gives me the sense that she's also trying to distance herself from the holocaust parallels.
Chuds who use anti Zionism as a cover to peddle reactionary politics in my experience give themselves away with the lack of a materialist analysis (they'll try to say that Israel controls and victimizes the US and not that Israel and the US both align)
Yeah, I think it is something that needs a "wait and see" from me. I feel like her rhetoric is flying a bit too close to the sun, but I'm not American, so maybe this sounds less like a dogwhistle than it would if an Australian politician started saying similar things. I guess this is just how discourse sounds in the US, everyone is like 2 degrees away from sounding like an actual Nazi.