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There was a time, not even that long ago, when anti-Semitism was the one form of bigotry that united both parties in absolute condemnation. No serious candidate would dare peddle conspiracy theories about Jewish control of banks, media, or government. That was a given. Apparently, it is not anymore.
Something ugly has taken root on the progressive left. What began as campus “anti-Zionism” in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre has crept into mainstream Democratic politics, wearing the language of activism like a disguise. Yet this week in Texas, voters delivered a verdict that should give every American a small but meaningful reason for hope.
Something ugly has taken root on the progressive left. What began as campus “anti-Zionism” in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre has crept into mainstream Democratic politics, wearing the language of activism like a disguise. Yet this week in Texas, voters delivered a verdict that should give every American a small but meaningful reason for hope.
Sometimes the system actually works.
Texas Democratic congressional candidate Johnny Garcia defeated the far-left activist Maureen Galindo in Tuesday night’s runoff election for the state’s 35th Congressional District, thereby ending a campaign marked by her repeated anti-Semitic social media posts. Galindo lost to Garcia by nearly 30 points.
Garcia, a former hostage negotiator and public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, had faced mounting attacks from Galindo throughout the campaign. These included accusations that he supported putting “Jews and Mexicans in warehouses” because of his support for immigration enforcement. Galindo, by contrast, seemed rather more taken with the idea of putting Jews in warehouses.
Good riddance.
Maureen Galindo did not merely lose an election on Tuesday night. She was annihilated, decisively, publicly, and by members of her own party. Every single point of that 30-point demolition was earned.
The things she actually said:
Let us not sanitize this. Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, proposed on Instagram turning an ICE detention center into “a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” That alone would have been vile enough. But she kept going.
It would also serve as “a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” she wrote. Read that again. A candidate for the United States Congress wrote that and still there are a boat load of secular Jews who, for some inexplicable reason, vote Democratic religiously.
On Texas Public Radio, she declared that “Zionist Jews own our media, our banks, and all of our politicians,” classic antisemitic tropes, lifted straight out of a 1930s propaganda pamphlet. But do not worry, she assured everyone she was not anti-Semitic. “I’m against Zionist Jews,” she clarified. As if that distinction could fool anyone.
She peddled conspiracy theories linking Israel to Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed Israel controlled ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. She called Zionists “genocidal European colonizer freaks” and said they were not “real Jews.”
Texas Democratic congressional candidate Johnny Garcia defeated the far-left activist Maureen Galindo in Tuesday night’s runoff election for the state’s 35th Congressional District, thereby ending a campaign marked by her repeated anti-Semitic social media posts. Galindo lost to Garcia by nearly 30 points.
Garcia, a former hostage negotiator and public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, had faced mounting attacks from Galindo throughout the campaign. These included accusations that he supported putting “Jews and Mexicans in warehouses” because of his support for immigration enforcement. Galindo, by contrast, seemed rather more taken with the idea of putting Jews in warehouses.
Good riddance.
Maureen Galindo did not merely lose an election on Tuesday night. She was annihilated, decisively, publicly, and by members of her own party. Every single point of that 30-point demolition was earned.
The things she actually said:
Let us not sanitize this. Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, proposed on Instagram turning an ICE detention center into “a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” That alone would have been vile enough. But she kept going.
It would also serve as “a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” she wrote. Read that again. A candidate for the United States Congress wrote that and still there are a boat load of secular Jews who, for some inexplicable reason, vote Democratic religiously.
On Texas Public Radio, she declared that “Zionist Jews own our media, our banks, and all of our politicians,” classic antisemitic tropes, lifted straight out of a 1930s propaganda pamphlet. But do not worry, she assured everyone she was not anti-Semitic. “I’m against Zionist Jews,” she clarified. As if that distinction could fool anyone.
She peddled conspiracy theories linking Israel to Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed Israel controlled ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. She called Zionists “genocidal European colonizer freaks” and said they were not “real Jews.”
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