Less than 24 hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Capitol Hill, two Dallas City Council members responded on social media.
Adam Bazaldua, the two-term incumbent representing District 7, made a pithy offering on X: “Netanyahu is a tyrant.” A post from Bazaldua on Facebook was identical.
Neither Bazaldua nor his office responded to The Dallas Express‘ request for comment. However, he has been outspoken, at least on social media, about his support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Remember just 16 years ago when people swore our country wasn’t going to vote for our first black president? Then came 8 years of hope… This election is no different, don’t get caught up in hypotheticals, just work like hell to make it a reality,” Bazaldua posted on X, referring to the announcement that Biden wouldn’t seek re-election. Biden endorsed Harris to succeed him.
Less than an hour after Biden announced he was dropping out of the race, Bazaldua retweeted the president’s tweet and wrote, “Democrats, this is not the time for infighting, this is the time to do everything necessary to beat Donald Trump in November. It’s a hell of a time to be a delegate for our state, I look forward to roll call voting for @KamalaHarris on August 7th and supporting Madam Vice in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. All hands on deck!”
The previous weekend, when Trump, now the Republican nominee for president, was shot in the ear in an attempted assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, DX asked Bazaldua for his reaction. He gave none, and neither did any of the other Dallas City Council members.
Cara Mendelsohn, the District 12 representative, tweeted on Wednesday images of pro-Hamas agitators on the Northaven Bridge near Royal Street in Dallas.
“Pro-Hamas protesters love this new bridge in Dallas, very close to several Jewish organizations,” she posted.
She also re-tweeted a video that shows protesters removing American flags in U.S. cities and burning them, and raising the Palestinian flag, saying it’s “Very important to read this.”
Mendelsohn is Jewish, and she’s often vocal about her support for Israel. In February, vandals spray-painted “baby killer” and upside-down red triangles along a fence on her property. The red triangles being used by anti-Israel activists first appeared in videos released by Hamas to indicate targets, according to Al Jazeera, The Dallas Express reported.
A pile of rocks and bricks with white shrouded figurines splattered with red paint apparently meant to represent dead babies in the rubble of bombed-out buildings were also left on Mendelsohn’s property.
Days later, anti-Israel protesters disrupted a Dallas City Council meeting after several of them, during the public comment period, spoke about “genocide,” “slaughter,” and “occupation” in Gaza. Many of them shouted, “Ceasefire now!” and some were evidently heard screaming, “Down with America!” as Dallas police escorted them out of the meeting, as DX reported at the time.
Netanyahu’s appearance before Congress on Wednesday was intended to increase support for Israel’s war against Hamas and other terrorist organizations.