The Texas Congressional Redistricting Battle: Rep. Jasmine Crockett Ain't Goin' Nowhere

 Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is the Democratic politician whom Texas Republicans love to hate. Who can blame them? 

Crockett called President Trump "a piece of shit" and a "wannabe Hitler." She compared Republicans to neo-Nazis and accused the U.S. Supreme Court of bribery.

Crockett's public speeches occasionally skirt the edge of racism. Indeed, Texas Republic Governor Greg Abbott believes she's crossed that line, recently observing, “It would not be a day that ends in the letter Y if Jasmine Crockett didn’t say something racist.” 

Crockett represents the Texas 30th congressional district, where she is wildly popular. District 30 encompasses the South Dallas metropolitan area, where Crockett garnered 85 percent of the vote in the 2024 election.

The Republican-dominated Texas Legislature recently revised the state's  Congressional district boundaries. One might think they would redraw Crockett's district so that she would lose the next election.

But that's not what the Texas Legislature did. District 30's boundaries were adjusted so Crockett's residence is outside the district, but the district is still overwhelmingly Democratic.

 And Crockett is not legally obligated to live inside District 30. She can reside anywhere in Texas and represent her loyal Dallas constituents in Congress. 

So what's going on? As the Texas Tribune explained:  

Republicans have proposed to pack more Democratic voters into districts in the state’s blue urban centers, giving Democrats even bigger margins in districts they already control, such as those represented by Crockett . . . 

In other words, Texas Republicans' scheme to create more Republican-leaning congressional districts may make Representative Jasmine Crockett unbeatable in her congressional district.

Potty-mouthed Crockett is in her forties and serving her second term in Congress. If Republicans think she is insufferable now, what do they think she'll be like when she is in her fifties and in her tenth term?

 

Anti-Israel protesters on American college campuses: Are they Neo-Nazis?

 Nothing has surprised me more in recent months than the rise of anti-Semitism in America. Anti-Jewish bigotry seemed to appear out of nowhere after Hamas terrorists slithered out of Gaza to butcher 1200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. 

Israel retaliated vigorously and has been fighting Hamas in the streets of Gaza for the last nine months.  Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas and to rescue more than 200 hostages it had kidnapped, including seven American citizens. 

Suddenly, faux-liberal college students and professors began protesting on behalf of the Palestinians, who have suffered greatly in the Gaza conflict due to the Hamas presence in their midst. Protesters camped out on campus lawns, vandalized college buildings, and occasionally scuffled with the police--all to show their support for the people of Gaza. 

It quickly became evident that these protesters were not animated by a humanitarian spirit; their graffiti, protest signs, and declared goals showed many of them to be Jew haters--neo-Nazis.

Americans should be frightened by the sudden rise of anti-Semitism in higher education. Curiously, it seems most vehement at our nation's most elite schools: Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA, among others. Although hundreds of these bigots were arrested, many were released because spineless prosecutors declined to press charges against them.

No one deigns to study history anymore. Woke college students and professors dismiss events of the past as irrelevant--just a bunch of folklore about white racists.

That's a mistake because history contains lessons that help us interpret current events. Anti-Israel protests in our own country are remarkably similar to events in Europe as the Nazis rose to power-- and not just in Germany.

Historian Ezra Mendelsohn wrote that universities in pre-war Eastern Europe established "ghetto benches" and required  Jewish students "to attend lectures in segregated areas of the classroom." 

Encouraged by Hitler's persecution of Jews in Germany, Mendelsohn noted, "universities [in East Central Europe] "became centers of anti-Jewish agitation and riots, much of it in emulation of the Nazis." And commencing in 1937, "physical attacks against Jewish students became ever more common, and several Jewish students were actually murdered."

Make no mistake. The people who are engaging in violent anti-Israel attacks on our nation's college campuses are neo-Nazis.

And there is a name for the Jewish politicians who encourage these outbreaks of racist violence by not speaking out against it and by undermining Israel in its existential war against bestial Islamic terrorism. The word is kapo.

What is a kapo? Historically, a kapo was a Jewish concentration camp prisoner who collaborated with the Nazis during World War to control fellow Jewish inmates. Who says history doesn't repeat itself?

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