Her campaign made the vow to imprison Zionists in an Instagram post<\/a> last week that circulated widely on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking. (It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists),\u201d the campaign said.<\/p>\n In other recent statements, Galindo railed against \u201cZionist billionaire Jews,\u201d blamed Israel for immigration enforcement in the US, demanded treason charges against politicians linked to Israel, and said that Zionists control the media.<\/p>\n Unlike other anti-Zionists in US politics, Galindo often refers to \u201cZionist Jews.\u201d She also attacks Christian Zionists, but is overwhelmingly focused on Israel.<\/p>\n She views Zionists as a malevolent, controlling force, and as a threat, both hallmarks of antisemitism.\n<\/p>\n She said<\/a> of her opponent, \u201cHe\u2019s funded by the Zionists who control San Antonio. I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but we have the Epstein files now.\u201d<\/p>\n Same message, new package<\/p>\n Her statements reflect a hodgepodge of antisemitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel views, echoing the far left, the far right and anti-Israel sources in the Middle East, sometimes blending the different influences into a single statement.<\/p>\n \u201cThey run the Epstein networks and they control DHS, because that was the whole point of DHS and ICE, was for the Israelis to occupy America,\u201d she said<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n Tying US law enforcement to Israel is common on the far left \u2014 see New York\u2019s Zohran Mamdani saying<\/a> that \u201cwhen the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it\u2019s been laced by the IDF\u201d \u2014 while the allegation that Zionists are occupying the US is more common on the far right. White supremacists refer to Washington as the \u201cZOG,\u201d or the \u201cZionist Occupied Government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an Israeli occupation of America,\u201d she said in a radio interview.<\/p>\n Galindo has also said<\/a> she is \u201cconcerned, though, about the genocide that Israel is doing and they might try to bring it here, too,\u201d bringing together the left\u2019s genocide allegations in Gaza with the far right\u2019s portrayal of Jews as an existential threat<\/a> to the US.<\/p>\n \t Galindo also draws from Middle East anti-Israel sources. After coming under criticism this week, she posted<\/a> a video of the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, Ghassan Kanafani, in her defense. She has cited Al Jazeera documentaries as a source of information and commemorated<\/a> the Palestinian Nakba Day.<\/p>\n Much of her rhetoric is grounded in the left, like calling<\/a> Zionists \u201cgenocidal colonizers\u201d perpetrating \u201ccrimes against humanity,\u201d framing<\/a> the conflict as a struggle for indigenous rights, blaming Israel<\/a> for health care woes in the US, and attacking companies<\/a> tied to Israel like Caterpillar.<\/p>\n Her references<\/a> to a cabal of \u201cZionist billionaire Jews,\u201d \u201cthe synagogue of Satan,\u201d and \u201call of the Jews who own Hollywood\u201d are more classic, run-of-the-mill antisemitism.<\/p>\n Her mixed rhetoric reflects how anti-Zionist talking points are increasingly crossing over between the left and right, marking a rare point of convergence. Tucker Carlson sometimes sounds like a progressive academic<\/a> while accusing Israel of genocide and murdering journalists. A recent video<\/a> by Canary Mission shows the hard left Ana Kasparian and the far right Nick Fuentes issuing nearly identical statements about Israel. Anti-Zionist ideas also have a history<\/a> of traveling between the different camps.<\/p>\n Galindo has stepped up her anti-Zionist rhetoric in recent weeks. Earlier in her campaign, she mentioned Israel, but she was more focused on domestic issues like housing, opposition to the Trump administration and immigration. Her February campaign announcement<\/a> made no mention of Israel or Zionism. In more recent appearances, though, in social media posts, interviews and campaign events, nearly every statement involves Israel.<\/p>\n \t She repeatedly says she is not antisemitic, only anti-Zionist. She views anti-Zionist Jews as the \u201creal Jews,\u201d and accuses Zionist Jews of antisemitism.<\/p>\n \u201cSemites are indigenous people to the Middle East and Northern Africa region. Zionists are European colonizers to Israel. They are the antisemites,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Despite Galindo\u2019s disavowals of antisemitism, her vow to imprison and castrate Zionists went too far for Democrats who are normally comfortable with anti-Zionism.<\/p>\n \u201cThis bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics,\u201d said New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n Jewish Democrats in Congress weren\u2019t buying Galindo\u2019s distinction either.<\/p>\n \u201cHer ever-increasing hateful rhetoric, most recently threatening to put Jews into concentration camps, merits no safe harbor anywhere in American politics,\u201d said the joint statement<\/a> from all Jewish Democratic members of Congress.<\/p>\n Not the only bigot in politics<\/p>\n Galindo\u2019s statements were not the only Israel-related controversy in US politics on Tuesday. Chris Rabb, an anti-Israel progressive who shared a post that said the Bondi Beach massacre was a false flag by \u201cZionists,\u201d won his primary<\/a> in Pennsylvania. (Rabb later disavowed the post and said it was shared by a former staffer.)<\/p>\n On the other side of the spectrum, anti-Israel US Rep. Thomas Massie, conceding<\/a> in a primary race, said he was unable to congratulate his opponent immediately because his rival was \u201cin Tel Aviv.\u201d<\/p>\n \t Adding to the imbroglio, Galindo is reportedly receiving funding<\/a> from a Republican-linked super PAC, apparently to boost the weaker Democratic party candidate in the race.<\/p>\n Jewish Democrats and party leaders laced into Republicans for allegedly assisting Galindo.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are deliberately elevating one of the most grotesque antisemites in American politics this cycle because they think it helps them win,\u201d the Democratic Majority for Israel said.<\/p>\n In response to the controversy, Galindo on Wednesday said, \u201cWhen I say that I want billionaire Zionists in prison, that does not mean I want Jews in internment camps, so why am I getting a whole bunch of death threats and MAGA insults?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI realize MAGA and Jewish Zionists apparently are the exact same people, they talk the exact same way,\u201d she said. \u201cThey want to create a religion state in the United States of America\u2026 the goal of Zionism is to create these white supremacist religion states.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re a danger to humanity and belong in prison,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n None of Galindo\u2019s ideas are new. The Nazis threw Jews into camps where some were castrated or sterilized<\/a>, viewed Jews as a genocidal threat<\/a> to their society, and portrayed Jews as pedophiles<\/a>. Many leftist anti-Zionist ideas, such as portraying anti-Zionism as separate from antisemitism, were promulgated by a Soviet propaganda campaign<\/a> in the mid-20th century. Galindo\u2019s claim that Jews are Europeans echoes the debunked Khazar hypothesis<\/a>. Anti-Zionist protesters often chant for the purge<\/a> of Zionists and call<\/a> Jewish passersby \u201cpedophiles.\u201d<\/p>\n Galindo brings all these strands, from past eras and different ideologies, together in a single candidate.<\/p>\n An aberration or a harbinger?<\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether Galindo is an aberration or a harbinger in US politics, as the lines continue to blur between anti-Zionism, antisemitism and Israel-related conspiracies, and between hostility to Israel on the right and the left. The window of acceptable Israel-related discourse in US politics has already moved miles since the start of the Gaza war.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t even clear why Galindo\u2019s call to imprison Zionists provoked such a reaction from Democrats, and not her earlier statements, or other antisemitic controversies in the party, such as Graham Platner\u2019s Nazi tattoo or Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s equivocations about Iran<\/a>, Hamas<\/a> and an attack<\/a> on a Michigan synagogue.<\/p>\n Even Hasan Piker, a hardline leftist and cheerleader for anti-Zionist candidates, expressed confusion at Galindo while viewing her comments for the first time on a livestream.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve just never encountered something like this, where there\u2019s certain things that she says, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s awesome,\u2019 and other things that she says, where I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s insane,’\u201d Piker said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to say about it.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20240610_untitled_09053.jpg\")
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\n\t\tAn anti-Zionist protester in New York City, June 10, 2024. (Luke Tress\/Times of Israel)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260505_untitled_05702.jpg\")
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\n\t\tAnti-Zionist protesters in New York City, May 5, 2026. (Luke Tress\/Times of Israel)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26140036776437-e1779239384799.jpg\")
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\n\t\tUS Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, speaks during an election night watch party after losing the Republican party\u2019s nomination at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Kentucky. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n