Rep. Colin Allred (D., Texas), who is looking to unseat incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R.), recruited an Austin city councilman who sided with anti-Israel students and accused the Jewish state of apartheid to lead an initiative targeting Asian and Pacific Islander voters.
Councilman Zo Qadri announced last week that he would co-chair the newly launched AAPI Texans for Colin Allred coalition. According to the Substack “Austin Texas Times,” Qadri deleted anti-Israel posts from 2021 after they resurfaced in the days following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack. In the spring, he criticized police for breaking up illegal encampments protesting the Jewish state at the University of Texas at Austin.
“The state of Israel has no right to talk about human rights or human issues. Not as they slaughter folks. Not as long as they deal in the apartheid business,” Qadri wrote in May 2021, as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad—both…
