The Poisonous Proposal That Should Alarm Every American |
I am an American. I am a Jew. I am a Zionist. I am horrified that Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo made an obscene statement recently as part of her campaign for US Congress that she will turn the Karnes ICE Detention Center into a “prison for American Zionists.” Making matters simple, I sent her an email and tole her to come get me.
I am horrified that while some have condemned her, the condemnation has not been from millions of Americans offended equally by her poisonous and dangerous proposal. The “good news” in Galindo’s denial of her proposal is that she openly states she is not specifically targeting Jews. She’s targeting all Zionists. All the more reason why millions of Americans should be offended because to be a Zionist is simply to affirm the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. My question to Maureen is, why are you NOT a Zionist. If you’re not a Zionist and want to imprison all of us who are, you are more dangerous than all the tropes you use to twist what a Zionist means, and accusations attributed to being a Zionist.
So, what’s the truth and what’s so bad about it? Galindo, running in Texas’s 35th Congressional District (including San Antonio which is home to CUFI, one of the largest Zionist organizations in America), publicly declared on Instagram that if elected, she would introduce legislation to turn the Karnes ICE Detention Center into a “prison for American Zionists” and former ICE officers. She went further, describing it as a “castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists.” This is not political hyperbole or a misplaced joke. It is a direct call to criminalize and dehumanize millions of Americans—Jews and non-Jews alike—who support........