WASHINGTON – Texans distanced themselves after the leader of a large progressive bloc in Congress called Israel a “racist state” ahead of a Wednesday address by Israel’s president.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, drew international condemnation after her comment last weekend.
“I absolutely would never, ever characterize one country as being completely racist,” Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a freshman Democrat who is part of the progressive caucus, said Tuesday. “There may be people that want to call our entire country racist, which I think would be wrong. I’m here and I am not that… We have a majority that is doing things that is oppressive to people, but don’t characterize my entire country that way.”
