\u201cIt will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n
In a followup post<\/a>, she clarified that \u201cdoes not mean I want Jews in internment camps,\u201d but that \u201cif you are a Zionist,\u201d then \u201cyou are a danger to humanity and belong in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n Galindo has also said \u201cZionists are not real Jews\u201d and has referred to \u201cthe Jews who own Hollywood\u201d and on Tuesday, she posted a video clip of Ghassan Kanafani, spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, whom Israel killed in 1972 after the PFLP orchestrated the Lod Airport massacre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Maureen Galindo for U.S. Congress Instagram.<\/p>\n Those comments have drawn sharp criticism from leading Democrats around the country, including some who have otherwise been frequent critics of Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is absolutely disgusting,\u201d wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). \u201cThis bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics.\u201d<\/p>\n The anti-Israel group Track AIPAC, which had previously endorsed Galindo, withdrew<\/a> its endorsement on Tuesday amid the controversy.<\/p>\n Pro-Israel Democratic groups and Democratic leaders in the House also moved to distance the party from the Texas candidate and condemn her views.<\/p>\n \u201cThis vile language by her is disqualifying and has no place in American politics, and certainly not in the Democratic Party,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) stated.<\/p>\n Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), who is Jewish, said that if Galindo were elected, he would force a daily vote to expel her until she was removed.<\/p>\n \u201cI will hold the floor everyday until she is gone,\u201d Moskowitz stated<\/a>. \u201cMy grandmother was part of the kindertransport out of Berlin. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My kids are never going to \u2018the camps.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Galindo garnered 29.2% of the vote in the April Democratic primary for the 35th district, which includes parts of San Antonio. She faces a runoff on May 26 against Johnny Garcia, a former Bexar County sheriff\u2019s deputy, who had 27% of the first-round vote.<\/p>\n Some Democrats have accused Republicans of backing Galindo through Lead Left PAC, a political action committee based in Tallahassee, Fla., which filed its organizing papers with the Federal Election Commission in April.<\/p>\n Lead Left\u2019s website says it \u201cstands against MAGA extremists, who will infect our country with Donald Trump\u2019s agenda\u201d and has spent nearly $1 million backing Galindo, according to FEC filings<\/a>.<\/p>\n But as first reported<\/a> by PunchBowl News, the metadata for Lead Left originally included links to a political action committee raising money through the Republican Win Red platform. That metadata has since been removed from Lead Left\u2019s website. (JNS sought comment from Galindo and Lead Left.)<\/p>\n In a statement condemning Galindo, Jeffries accused Republicans of cynically backing her candidacy as an election tactic.<\/p>\n \u201cHouse Republican leadership must immediately cease propping up this antisemitic candidacy, pull spending in the race and forcefully condemn these comments,\u201d Jeffries stated. \u201cTo embrace and uplift a fringe candidate with antisemitic, and extremely dangerous, rhetoric and views in order to win an election is beyond the pale.\u201d<\/p>\n Opposing parties backing flawed candidates in primaries has a long history, including the 2012 Senate race in Missouri, when then-Democratic senator Claire McCaskill spent<\/a> $1.7 million boosting Republican Todd Akin in the primary in the hope that his comments about \u201clegitimate rape\u201d would prove toxic in the general election. McCaskill won that race and later revealed her role in supporting Akin.<\/p>\n Such tactics have drawn criticism in the 2026 cycle, however, with questions about the wisdom of AIPAC\u2019s decision to spend<\/a> more than $2.3 million in a New Jersey House race opposing a candidate it had once supported, only for a Democrat who accuses Israel of genocide to ultimately win the primary.<\/p>\n \u201cGalindo is being kept afloat by Republican money,\u201d Democratic Majority for Israel stated<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/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 DMFI stated. \u201cIt is sick, it is cynical and it tells you everything about a party that will fund anyone, including someone openly invoking the language of pogroms, as long as it serves their politics.\u201d<\/p>\n ![\"Source:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779358577_398_.webp\")
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