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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.
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When someone starts talking about sending "Zionists" off to camps, I think it's a pretty safe bet that they are using it as a dogwhistle for Jews. Am I missing something? This person sounds like a Nazi to me, they've been using "Zionist" for a little while now, since they know how unpopular Israel is with everyone else and it is an easy "foot in the door" for more anti-Semitic rhetoric.
I'm not sure why the comments here seem to be in favour of this person and their rhetoric, it really sounds like Fascist dogwhistles, unless I'm really just not getting it, and if so, can someone please explain? As the contradictions of capital worsen, and the Fascists rise, they will co-opt left wing rhetoric more and more until they don't need to anymore and can finally go mask-off. That's what this looks like to me, a Fascist riding a wave of popular leftist sentiment into power and using dogwhistles to signal to the fash.
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