Washington State Human Rights Commissioner Calls Jews ‘Always Crying’ About Antisemitism — Bipartisan Lawmakers Demand His Removal

Washington State Human Rights Commissioner Luc fils Jasmin delivered an antisemitic tirade during a March commission meeting as colleagues debated a resolution condemning antisemitism — stating Jews are ‘always crying’ about discrimination and accusing Jews of ‘killing millions’ of Palestinians. A video of the remarks surfaced on June 10, triggering a bipartisan demand from state lawmakers that Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, remove Jasmin from the commission before his term expires in June 2028.

• Jasmin’s exact words: ‘This word antisemitism has been around since the Jews got trampled by Hitler, and it seems like the Jewish people keep on crying, and crying, and crying and crying, always crying over the antisemitism.’
• The remarks were made during a March 27, 2025 commission meeting in which the body was debating a proposed resolution condemning antisemitism.
• Lawmakers from both parties are urging Democratic Gov. Ferguson to act — Jasmin’s term on the commission runs through June 2028.
• The incident is a textbook case of an official charged with fighting discrimination actively dismissing Jewish claims of bias from a position of government authority.

A state official empowered to investigate and adjudicate discrimination complaints deployed the most classic antisemitic dismissal — 'Jews cry wolf' — while blocking a resolution to protect Jews. The bipartisan call for removal indicates the incident has crossed a political threshold, but whether Ferguson acts tests whether Democrats who claim to stand against antisemitism will hold their own appointees accountable when the target is Jewish.

The anti-Israel left is winning the money war in Democratic primaries. New super PACs created explicitly to counter AIPAC’s electoral spending have elevated multiple anti-Israel Democrats in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California to congressional nominations in key races. Jewish Insider reports the far left is now on stronger financial footing than any prior cycle — and the New York Times devoted its magazine cover to the question of whether AIPAC’s model is collapsing inside the Democratic Party.

• New anti-Israel super PACs scored wins by backing candidates in NJ, PA, and California in recent primaries, a rapid expansion from prior cycles.
• The Justice Democrats PAC network — backed by dark money tied to anti-Israel donors — spent $200,000 in mail ads in at least one race alone.
• The New York Times Magazine published a major feature today asking: ‘AIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC.’
• Fetterman warned this week that the ‘prospects for Jewish voters are bleak’ as the anti-Israel left racks up Democratic primary victories ‘across the map.’

The Democratic Party's internal shift on Israel is no longer just rhetoric — it now has a structural funding architecture that mirrors AIPAC's own model. The question for the 2026 midterms is whether pro-Israel Democrats can survive primaries against a left that has both the money and the momentum.

The United Teachers Los Angeles House of Representatives voted on June 3 to expel Amy Leserman, a retired Jewish teacher and Zionist activist who chairs JewTLA, a group supporting pro-Israel teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Pro-Israel union members say the expulsion bypassed the union’s own procedures and represents a targeted purge of a Jewish member for her political advocacy on behalf of Israel.

• Leserman retired as an LAUSD teacher last year and chairs JewTLA, which advocates for pro-Israel teachers within the city’s school system.
• The UTLA House of Representatives, the union’s highest voting body, held the vote on Zoom on June 3 — pro-Israel members allege the union bypassed its own policies.
• The expulsion targets Leserman for advocacy work done after retirement — extending UTLA’s anti-Israel enforcement beyond active membership.

Labor unions have become a second front in the anti-Israel left's campaign to make pro-Israel advocacy institutionally unsustainable. An expulsion that violates the union's own rules signals that procedural norms are no obstacle when the target is a Jewish Zionist.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas is facing significant internal criticism after reportedly comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s apartheid regime during private meetings with Mexican officials. The remarks, reported by Euractiv, depart from the EU’s official foreign policy line — European diplomats noted that apartheid comparisons are ‘not EU policy’ and are escalating internal EU tensions over the Middle East.

• Kallas allegedly made the apartheid comparison during closed-door discussions in Mexico City last month, according to officials and diplomats who spoke to Euractiv.
• European diplomats quoted in the Euractiv report said: ‘The comparison with apartheid is unacceptable and not EU policy.’
• The remarks come as several EU member states — including Slovenia and Czech Republic — have moved in a more pro-Israel direction, deepening the bloc’s internal foreign policy fault lines.
• Kallas’s office has not directly confirmed or denied the substance of the reported remarks.

Apartheid rhetoric from the bloc's top diplomat, even in private, signals the extent to which hostility to Israel has penetrated European governing institutions. The EU's internal divide — with eastern states pulling toward Israel and the top diplomat privately using anti-Israel framing — is a structural rift that will shape European policy for years.