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May 21, 2026

Democrats Reach across Party Lines to Embrace Anti-Semites

Criticize Israel, or Donald Trump, and all can be forgiven.

Last week, Maureen Galindo, a Democratic candidate for a Texas congressional seat, announced that she intends to turn an ICE detention facility “into a prison for American Zionists”—the rare anti-Zionist statement so extreme that it earned condemnation from J Street. Meanwhile, mainstream Democratic figures like Ben Rhodes, who served as Barack Obama’s speechwriter and foreign-policy guru, are praising anti-Semitic Republicans so long as they criticize Israel. Abe Greenwald comments:

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