Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed hangs tight with Hamas-supporting editor

DEARBORN, MI—In a stunning display of political courage, local politician Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed bravely sat down for a warm and cozy interview this week with Osama Siblani, a local publisher who sweetly suggests sending Israeli Jews back to the very European nation where the Nazi death camps were located. 

What a guy. His given name should be a clue.

The sit-down took place at the offices of Siblani’s newspaper, The Arab American News, where the atmosphere was thick with mutual admiration and zero awkward questions about why Siblani refers to Hamas and Hezbollah, [scumbags who kill Jewish men, women and their babies] as "freedom fighters." 

Siblani gently urged the candidate to do some light emotional labor for the community.

"Some of them are not very happy, as you know," Siblani said.

True to form, El-Sayed immediately offered comfort to voters who might be feeling a bit blue that their favorite militant groups are facing pushback. Explaining that perfection is elusive, El-Sayed pledged to redirect taxpayer dollars to Michigan "rather than send it abroad to kill or maim people who might be related to you in the south of Lebanon or in Gaza or in the West Bank."

During the discussion, the candidate thoughtfully avoided mentioning minor historical footnotes like the October 7 massacre. After all, dwelling on the slaughter of 1,200 innocent Israelis might harsh the vibe of a nice afternoon chat about foreign policy.

Critics have foolishly tried to paint El-Sayed's cozy relationship with extremist sympathizers in a negative light, pointing out instances where he refused to comment on the death of Iran's supreme leader because local residents were sad, or when he explained a synagogue attack by casually noting that "hurt people hurt people."

Naturally, El-Sayed recognized these attacks for what they truly are.

"I want us to remember that when they attack like this, those attacks are the last vestiges of small-mindedness for small-minded people," he said, bravely brushing off pesky concerns about his family's historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the little fact that former President Barack Hussein Obama put his sister on the Terrorist Watch List.

Never one to miss an opportunity to take a stand against corporate lobbying, El-Sayed also made sure to distance himself from Washington interests.

"I'm not willing to take orders from AIPAC," he declared, prompting a clever little joke from Siblani to ensure everyone knew he wasn't talking about Siblani’s own political action committee, because nothing screams grassroots independence quite like a $350,000 fundraiser hosted by a Hezbollah fanboy.

As the interview wrapped up, El-Sayed warned voters that Republicans are definitely going to try and steal the upcoming election, offering the foolproof strategic insight that "You can't steal a 7-point election. You got walloped, so let's go wallop them."

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El Sayed doubles down on anti-Semitic stance and vows to make America France again

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has a message for American voters: Israel is not America’s friend, and apparently the best person to explain this is a candidate whose own political baggage keeps generating uncomfortable questions. 

But he doesn't tend to answer questions himself. When asked at a town hall meeting whether he denounces Hamas, he did not give an emphatic "yes, I denounce Hamas," but instead said "yes, sure," and then began asking the questioner about his knowledge of the US Constitution [and 'yadda, yadda. squirrel, squirrel'].

In an interview with ABC News (D) on Monday, El-Sayed doubled down on his anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric, arguing that the Jewish state is not an ally of the United States. His evidence? An analogy involving a freeloading friend who steals money from your children and starts fights with the neighborhood.

“An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” he argued, leaving out the uncomfortable issue regarding the October 7, 2023 when Hamas massacred about 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies--what people with a functioning cortex would label genocide.

El-Sayed then expanded on his theory of international relations, comparing Israel to a friend who “keeps bumming off [your kids’ money] and then talks about them behind their back and gets them into fights with their other friends.” He evidently doesn't view Israel as a crucial Middle East ally. Perhaps he would like France in that role in the future once the Islamists and communists burn Paris down along with a bunch of other major French cities. 

Apparently, decades of strategic cooperation, intelligence sharing, and regional security concerns can all be reduced to the sort of playground dispute normally settled by confiscating someone's lunch money.

“What would you tell your kid?” he asked the reporter. “You’d probably tell them, ‘Maybe that’s not actually your friend.’” Actually, for El Sayed, the Muslim Brotherhood is his friend but he won't admit it. 

“I think it’s time for us to realize that Israel is actually not our friend,” he concluded. 'Viva la France and burn baby burn,' his brain whispers.

The declaration offers Michigan voters a revealing preview of El-Sayed’s foreign policy priorities. Israel, a longstanding American ally, our best ally, is to be judged according to a schoolyard morality play, while the candidate delivering the lecture presumably expects voters to regard his own political associations and family controversies as matters requiring considerably more nuance.

The timing is also worth noting.

El-Sayed’s comments follow renewed accusations concerning his sister-in-law, Miriam Jukaku, who was reportedly involved in a federal terrorist watchlist lawsuit during the Obama administration. It's unknown as to whether she has a history of burning buildings in Paris or the USA, but she's what the kids call a jihadist.

El-Sayed dismissed the allegations when speaking to Fox News, insisting that she had done nothing wrong and suggesting that Islamophobia explained her designation.

"You've got this system where folks are guilty until proven innocent because they've got different kinds of names, because of the infrastructure that people like [Michigan Republican Senate candidate] Mike Rogers set up,” he said.

That is quite a defense of due process, although voters might reasonably wonder whether El-Sayed applies the same generous presumption of innocence when discussing America's allies. Israel, at least in his telling, appears to have been convicted without much of a trial.

The Democratic nominee has also faced scrutiny over alleged family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Those allegations have added another layer of controversy to a campaign already marked by his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Israel.

El-Sayed's remarks have not gone unnoticed among American Jewish leaders, some of whom are increasingly concerned about what his political ascent could mean for Jewish communities in Michigan and beyond.

Rabbis and other Jewish leaders have called on the Democratic Party to adopt a list of “nonnegotiable” principles for Jewish safety ahead of the November midterm elections. Their concerns reflect growing unease over whether a party that has historically enjoyed substantial support from Jewish voters is prepared to confront the consequences of its own anti-Israel rhetoric. Lately, of course, the Democratic Party has voiced enough anti-Israel/anti-Semitic rhetoric to make a skinhead blush.

Meanwhile, the Michigan Senate race has left some Democratic voters searching for alternatives. Students who identify as Democrats at the University of Michigan have recently joined the campaign as well, apparently hoping to influence a contest that has become increasingly uncomfortable for voters who support their party but remain unwilling to accept its hostility toward Israel without question.

For El-Sayed, the strategy seems straightforward: portray Israel as the troublesome friend, suggest that American taxpayers are being taken advantage of, and invite voters to reconsider a relationship that has endured across multiple administrations.

Whether Michigan voters find that argument persuasive remains to be seen. But El-Sayed has made one thing clear: if elected to the Senate, he intends to bring a rather different understanding of America's alliances to Washington, one in which a longtime democratic partner is cast as the neighborhood bully and the candidate making the accusation expects to be taken seriously as a judge of international character.

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Michigan Dem Abdul El-Sayed Discovers That Questions About His Family Are Apparently Out of Bounds

Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to answer questions from NBC News, a development that appeared to catch the Democrat completely off guard as he was expecting powderpuff questions with no followup. 

The subject was about family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and El-Sayed responded with the political equivalent of demanding to speak to the manager.

During an interview with NBC News, El-Sayed dismissed questions about his family’s alleged connections to the Islamist organization as “not serious,” attempting to redirect attention toward his Michigan résumé rather than explain social media posts in which his maternal half-sister claimed their family had “long” been involved with the group.

The awkward exchange followed El-Sayed’s earlier denial of any connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, a position that became considerably more complicated after his sister’s old posts resurfaced.

NBC reporter Tom Llamas confronted El-Sayed with several statements posted by his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor. In June 2012, Abdelhadi wrote, “My family has long been MB,” referring to the Muslim Brotherhood.

[According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brotherhood's central mission is to Islamize society through religious law, values, and morals. Its ideology seeks a political and social order based on Islamic principles and Sharia law.]

In another post, she recalled, “had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college.”

Then, in July 2013, she added, “I have had family jailed for being a part of it.”

Those statements raised questions that El-Sayed apparently would have preferred remained buried in the internet’s increasingly inconvenient archives.

Rather than address the substance of the posts, El-Sayed launched into a recitation of his personal history and professional accomplishments, as though serving Michigan’s public health system somehow rendered questions about his family automatically illegitimate. 

Maybe he has something to hide.

“It’s funny to me. I was born in 1984, down the street in Rochester Hills,” he said. “I was raised here in Michigan, went to the University of Michigan, rebuilt the health department in the city, led the health department in this county. And you want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?”

Apparently, the relevant question was no longer what his sister had written about their family, but why anyone would dare ask him about it.

Llamas persisted, prompting El-Sayed to offer a denial while acknowledging that he had never discussed the matter with his mother.

“I’m telling you, like, I have no ties. We have no ties,” he said. “I have never had these conversations with my mother. I wasn’t raised by my mother.”

El-Sayed then accused the reporter of “using hearsay evidence from a tweet.”

The candidate’s defense thus rested on a peculiar combination of categorical denial and an admission that he had never actually discussed the subject with the person at the center of the reported family history.

Llamas was not persuaded. He pointed out that El-Sayed had criticized President Donald Trump over “truthfulness” and suggested that voters were entitled to expect the same standard from the Senate candidate.

“So when people ask you a question, they all do expect the truth,” the reporter said.

El-Sayed appeared offended by the implication.

“Do you think, are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?” El-Sayed responded. “And I’m telling you I was not.”

The exchange offered a glimpse of what happens when a politician accustomed to criticizing his opponents discovers that the press occasionally applies the same inconvenient standards to him. Suddenly, the questions are unserious, the evidence is hearsay, and the person asking for clarification is apparently the real problem.

The controversy is not entirely academic. Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the organization’s Egyptian branch, have been designated as specially designated global terrorist organizations by the United States. Egypt is also the country from which El-Sayed’s parents emigrated.

El-Sayed has previously boasted that he held dual American and Egyptian citizenship, although he now says that claim was based on misinformation.

The social media posts first drew renewed attention after the Washington Free Beacon resurfaced them following El-Sayed’s categorical denial of any links to the Muslim Brotherhood during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

President Donald Trump also weighed in on Wednesday, claiming that El-Sayed himself was a member of the organization.

“Abdul, or as I call him Muhammad El-Sayad, he’s a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Trump said. “You can’t have a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress, being on one of our security committees.”

The allegation from Trump is separate from the claims attributed to El-Sayed’s half-sister, and the family’s reported history does not, by itself, establish that El-Sayed belongs to the organization.

Nevertheless, a candidate seeking a seat in the United States Senate can reasonably expect questions about statements suggesting possible family connections to a movement with a complicated and consequential history. That is particularly true when the candidate has already made categorical denials about the subject.

El-Sayed is entitled to deny the allegations. He is also entitled to object to the questions. But neither entitlement obliges reporters or voters to pretend that the questions do not exist.

For a party that routinely insists that public figures must answer for their words, actions, associations, and family histories when politically convenient, the sudden discovery that some questions are “not serious” is an interesting development.

Perhaps El-Sayed can explain to voters why the public should accept his assurances without further scrutiny. Dismissing the questions as ridiculous, however, is unlikely to make the questions disappear.

If anything, it makes people wonder why answering them directly seems so difficult.

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Abdul El-Sayed Calls Pregnant Women “Simply a Carrying Vehicle” for Babies

KALAMAZOO, MI — Michigan Democratic Senate nominee and anti-Semite extraordinaire, Abdul El-Sayed informed a pro-life student that a pregnant mother is “simply a carrying vehicle for a fetus that has not ever breathed air,” after she asked why she should vote for him. 

The exchange occurred at a “Students vs. Billionaires” event on the Western Michigan University campus. El-Sayed did not use the word “woman.” Instead, like a good leftist, he referred to the pregnant mother as “an adult, or sometimes even a juvenile human.” 

“I respect your position insofar as it’s founded in the idea that you want to protect and empower life,” El-Sayed told the student. “The question we have to ask ourselves is, what’s the best way to do that? And whose life gets destroyed in that process?” That is, if you help one life, you are somehow destroying another life--it's the same playbook leftists use to say that billionaires are taking money away from others in order to be rich.

He continued: “Because too often when government says that you cannot have reproductive care, you are creating a circumstance in which an adult, or sometimes even a juvenile human, is being reduced into simply a carrying vehicle for a fetus that has not ever breathed air.” 

He later clarified that restricting abortion turns “the currently existing life of the mother” into “simply a carrying vehicle for a fetus.” Campaign aides confirmed the nominee remains open to other vehicle metaphors, provided the fetus has not completed the required air-intake paperwork.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, said the answer treats a pre-born child as if the baby does not count until a first breath outside the womb.

“I’ve carried four babies. I was their mother long before any of them breathed air,” she said. “The Pro-Life Generation knows a pre-born baby is still a baby.”

Hawkins noted that El-Sayed has pledged to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal taxpayer funding of most abortions, to defend government funding for Planned Parenthood, and to keep tax dollars from pregnancy resource centers, which he has called “fake clinics.” Sources say the clinics’ principal offense is offering diapers instead of the correct philosophical category for the occupant.

When Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorsed him in August, she said, he praised “the tenacity and compassion of the folks at Planned Parenthood” and said he looked forward to partnering with them in the Senate. 

El-Sayed and pro-life Republican Mike Rogers are set to debate Thursday in Grand Rapids. Hawkins said Students for Life Action students plan to be outside, and that the group is targeting the Michigan Senate race ahead of the Nov. 3 election. She also pointed to a leaked Democratic playbook that, she said, puts abortions up to birth and repeal of the Hyde Amendment at the top of the list if Democrats take Congress, with a promise to act within the first 100 hours.

At press time, El-Sayed’s campaign was still refining whether the carrying vehicle retains voting rights once the fetus has been successfully delivered to the curb.

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Jihadi Democrat Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn IRGC

The Democrats’ jihadist nominee for the Senate in Michigan was asked a straightforward question at a town hall in Ann Arbor on Wednesday: would he condemn the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?

He declined to do so.

As reported by Newsweek, Iman Dashti, an attendee who identified himself as Persian, informed the candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, that his own family had suffered persecution at the hands of the regime in Tehran. 

Dashti noted his dismay over leaked audio in which El-Sayed refused to comment on the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after U.S. strikes, remarking at the time that “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”

“That silence had a gaping hole in our community,” Dashti said, before pressing El-Sayed to clarify whether “you stand unequivocally against the IRGC?”

Rather than offering a clear rejection of a brutal state apparatus, El-Sayed offered a studied evasion, replying, “I will always stand for and with democratic movements,” while adding that he opposed U.S. involvement in regime change. Of course, in actuality, El-Sayed opposes the U.S. in general. His good buddy, Hasan Piker, had openly said that the United States deserved 911.

The voter who posed the question was under no illusions about the reason for this hesitation. Speaking later on Fox News, he observed that “a lot of his supporters are very supportive of these institutions, the IRGC. They love the Iranian regime and he doesn’t want to alienate them.”

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Chuck Schumer Doubles Down on Jew-Hating Jihadi El-Sayed With Another $10 Million

What a slimeball Oberkapo lizard Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer is. He is a disgrace to the Jewish people.

Axios now reports that the Democrats’ principal Senate super PAC is committing an additional $10 million to the Michigan Senate contest in order to elevate the progressive anti-Semite scumcrumpet Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

The party’s establishment has gathered around him after a primary that was nasty, bruising, and late in the season.

Republicans regard Michigan as a leading chance to gain a seat and have filled the airwaves on behalf of former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

“All pathways to a Senate majority run through Michigan,” El-Sayed said Wednesday after meeting with Democratic senators at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headquarters.

The latest $10 million from Senate Majority PAC, the organization aligned with Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY), brings that group’s outlay in Michigan to $30 million. The new television advertisements are to begin on Tuesday. One might have expected a measure of hesitation.

El-Sayed has denied Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, spoken of that country as bloodthirsty and evil, and answered an attack on a Michigan synagogue with the observation that “hurt people hurt people.” He has not made any real negative comments about the terrorists who initiated the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis, slaughtering men, women, children and even babies. Crickets.

He has shared platforms with figures whose record on Jews and jihadist violence would, in a healthier political culture, have ended the conversation. None of this has proved decisive. The money continues.

Ahead of a private meeting with Schumer on Wednesday, El-Sayed declined to say if he would support him for Democratic leader next year. The leader of Senate Democrats, who has long presented himself as a guardian of Israel and of American Jewry, now underwrites a candidate who will not even offer him that courtesy. Power, it appears, is the only remaining principle.

The rest is expendable.

What a garbage person Schumer is, and El Sayed isn't any better.

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Imam Deletes Sermons Calling Hamas Leader a 'Heroic Martyr' After Noticing People Can Still Use YouTube

ANN ARBOR, MI — The imam of left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has wiped his mosque's YouTube channel after videos surfaced of him delivering an "absentee funeral prayer" for late Hamasshole leader Ismail Haniyeh and separately telling congregants they had a religious duty to vote for El-Sayed.

The Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor's YouTube page, which as recently as Tuesday hosted dozens of Imam Abdelhamid Algizawi's sermons, now displays only the message, "This channel doesn't have any content." 

An Aug. 2, 2024, sermon eulogizing Haniyeh is now "unavailable" and set to "private." So is a sermon delivered after El-Sayed's primary win, which Algizawi called a "very big victory for Muslims" and "for the Islamic nation."

The sudden digital cleanup followed Washington Free Beacon reporting on Algizawi and the MCA of Ann Arbor, where El-Sayed typically prays, according to a source familiar with the situation. In those sermons, Algizawi told worshipers the Muslim community had an "obligation" to vote for El-Sayed in November to "change the society." 

He also eulogized Haniyeh two days after the terrorist leader was killed by an explosive device smuggled into his guesthouse in Tehran."

He is a symbol of jihad, a symbol of struggle, a symbol of patriotism, and a symbol of devotion," Algizawi said of Haniyeh. "No one loves him except someone who loves God and his Messenger, and no one hates him except an enemy of Islam. He is a righteous man, one of the righteous. … He wanted to liberate Palestine, his land and his homeland. He sought nothing more than that. Yet despite this, the unjust and wicked killed him. … We ask Almighty God to grant him a place in Paradise. O God, place him among the martyrs and the righteous." 

In other sermons, Algizawi denounced homosexuality as a "fashion," saying Muslims must reject it because it "cannot bring stability to life" and is "against human nature."

"Also, Muslims cannot compromise their religion," Algizawi said in 2022. "We cannot say, 'Hey, because I am a Muslim, I'm American, we are living in America, we have…' No, we cannot compromise our religion."The MCA of Ann Arbor's YouTube purge has not erased the record. The Middle East Media Research Institute archived the sermon celebrating El-Sayed's primary victory. The Free Beacon archived the Haniyeh eulogy.  

Algizawi's 2022 remarks on homosexuality, delivered at a Sacramento-area Islamic center, remained online as of Wednesday evening. The MCA of Ann Arbor, Algizawi, and El-Sayed did not respond to requests for comment. 

On the campaign trail, El-Sayed has taken the opposite line on homosexuality in order to win an election. But if he should get elected, there is no telling what he might do as an anti-American, Jew-hating scumcrumpet. 

During Pride Month in 2025, the liar said, "This month and every month, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community in their struggle for equal rights and dignity. I'll always fight for an America where all of us can live and thrive as we are."

His comments on Islamic terrorists have tracked more closely with his imam's. After a Lebanese-American man whose brother was a Hezbollah commander attacked Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, El-Sayed said, "It's just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people," a remark he later described as providing "context for why it happened." 

At a July 2025 campaign event, video first reported by the Free Beacon shows El-Sayed blaming America for "creating" terrorism.

"There is a level of pain and frustration and a level of lack of agency that they have to feel to do something so insane and absurd, right?" he said. "And so I've often tried to ask, like, so what moves somebody into that, and how is it that we're behaving that may get somebody to think that we don't see them, and that's creating pain?"

"And I think too often, the way we've engaged in the world has been that we set up this rules-based international order, and then we break the rules of the rules-based international order, and that creates a situation where there are a lot of people who look at us and say that's hypocritical and that's wrong," he went on. "And I think the best thing we can do is be honest about that."At press time, the MCA YouTube channel remained empty, a development mosque officials have not yet attributed to a mysterious act of God.

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El-Sayed Says Returning Terror-Tied Cash Would Be Racist, Offers Gas Prices Instead

DETROIT — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate and secret jihadi Abdul El-Sayed refused Tuesday to consider returning more than $115,000 in campaign donations from donors linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, then explained that asking him to do so was racist. If you're a leftist, everything is racist.

The refusal came after Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said El-Sayed should send the money back, citing what Rogers called a "dubious cloud" over CAIR. The group has been designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates and is treated as such by Florida and Texas. 

FEC records show El-Sayed took the funds from at least 40 people tied to CAIR, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, who is El-Sayed's father-in-law. 

Can I get an Allahu akbar!

FOX 2 Detroit anchor Roop Raj put the question to him directly. "Rogers has said that it’s time for you to return money that you may have gotten from organizations like CAIR, citing what he calls a ‘dubious cloud’ over that. Is that something that you’re thinking about doing, would be willing to do? And what do you have to say about that?"

El-Sayed said no. He said Rogers had invented CAIR's terror ties in order to smear Muslims and, conveniently, the Democrat running against him." 

But let us not forget that the United Arab Emirates has declared CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) as a terrorist organization.  

You know, that civil rights organization exists because people like Mike Rogers want to make this race about the color of my skin or how I pray," El-Sayed replied. "So I’m focused on you and your gas prices and the price of your groceries. He’s focused on trying to turn this into some kind of culture war."

Party officials praised the pivot as statesmanship rather than bull crap. 

Noticing a donor list, they said, is a culture war. Noticing gas prices is public service. Noticing both is racism. 

El-Sayed evidently forgot to mention that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history, after which the FBI cut ties with the group's leadership. He also skipped CAIR's early leadership links to the Islamic Association for Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas. 

The candidate has had similar trouble shaking campaign surrogate the execrable Hasan Piker, the Jew hating communist streamer who has praised Hezbollah, Mao Zedong, and the idea that "America deserved 9/11." [Do you know what POS stands for?]

El-Sayed has likewise spent months outrunning his own old posts that downplayed victims of Islamic terror and blamed the United States for hitting back with a negative opinion. Advisers insist this is about grocery receipts.

FEC filings added one more coalition partner: a curious overlap between El-Sayed donors and backers of Instagram playboy Dan Bilzerian, who ran a losing, Hitler-praising primary campaign for Congress in Florida. Strategists called it a big tent; I call it a big gas chamber.

The FOX 2 appearance was first billed as a possible debate. Rogers has already agreed to two debates in October but declined this one over the moderator. His campaign said Raj, who has praised El-Sayed and been praised by Piker, was not a neutral referee. "Michiganders deserve to see their candidates engage in a healthy, fair debate — not one compromised by media bias," campaign communications director Alyssa Brouillet said.

El-Sayed remained focused on the issues that matter: your pump, your cart, and the unpardonable bigotry of reading his donor report. Oh, and let's not forget about Israel and you know, those Jooooze!

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Candidate Who Compared 9/11 To COVID Now Says Murdering Innocents Is Bad

LANSING, MI — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed released a somber 9/11 video Friday after apparently discovering that crashing planes into buildings and killing thousands of Americans is, in fact, a bad thing.

El-Sayed, who hopes to become the first Muslim U.S. senator, told viewers the country should not forget the victims or the first responders who died. In other words, this America-hating slug would say anything to get elected.

The message marked a sharp change from earlier comments in which he compared 9/11 deaths to COVID and warned about “the rise in white supremacist violence.” 

“A cruel act of terror took the lives of more than 3,000 kids, women, men, including brave first responders who ran into the rubble to save lives that day,” El-Sayed said with a forked tongue in the new video. “Thousands more were injured. Many continue to suffer the consequences even today.”

The video arrived as El-Sayed works to put some distance between himself and a pile of old anti-American positions. He has deleted dozens of posts, including 9/11 comments, calls to defund the police, and arguments against the Second Amendment. 

Thus began more BS: “Today, on 9/11, we honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism. Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians, nothing.  And on this day, we mourn the victims, their families, and the destruction those terrorists caused,” El-Sayed added.

That victim-first tone stood in contrast to posts from recent years that he later deleted. Conservative outlet Townhall archived several of them. 

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country,” he wrote on September 11, 2021. 

On September 11, 2020, he compared the government’s 9/11 response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “19 yrs ago, 2977 lives were taken from us on 9/11. We mourn them. To avenge their deaths, our country launched harmful wars that took lives,” he wrote. 

“Since the #pandemic, we’ve lost the equivalent of 64 9/11s. That’s one EVERY 3.5 DAYS. Why is there no war on #COVID to SAVE lives?” 

That same day he said he “feared” for his family’s safety for the first time on 9/11 and claimed “white supremacist violence” was “blooming” under President Donald Trump after germinating under President George W. Bush.

After more than 3,000 Americans reportedly died of COVID, El-Sayed posted that more lives had been lost than on 9/11.

“I hope that means we’ll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against climate change & poverty… like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11,” he wrote on X. “We could save lives, rather than take them.” 

Campaign aides said the new message reflects growth, maturity, and a sudden realization that Michigan voters can still read the internet. Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has spent weeks highlighting El-Sayed’s old rhetoric and his close ties to activist and co-Jew hating Hasan Piker, who once said America “deserved 9/11.”

At press time, El-Sayed was said to be reviewing which remaining posts still needed to vanish before November. He is clearly a disgusting piece of human garbage.

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JD Vance blasts El-Sayed after he goes after Usha Vance: "Way out of your league"

Vice President JD Vance did not come to metro Detroit to play nice. After Michigan Democratic Anti-Semitic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed decided to take a swipe at the second lady, Vance told him to knock it off and talk about something that actually matters to voters.

Vance implored El-Sayed to focus on policy instead of attacking his wife. 

At a MAGA Inc. rally Monday, JD made it clear he thinks the Democrat’s personal shot is not just cheap. It is strange."I actually think that the people of Michigan think it's kind of weird when you talk about another guy's wife," Vance said. "I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas …I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you're going to protect auto workers when you're supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan auto workers your entire life in public service."

Then came the closer. "But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth because she's way out of your league," the vice president added.

That was not some random zinger. It was a response to El-Sayed saying "do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no" after Vance suggested that Sharia law would have been an alien concept to his grandfather. 

Critics said the post appeared to take aim at Usha Vance’s Indian heritage. El-Sayed later claimed his point was that Vance seemed to be suggesting some people are "more American" than others because their families have been in the country longer, noting that Vance’s own in-laws are immigrants. Sure. That is the cleanup. 

The original post still read like a cheap ethnic jab at the vice president’s wife. Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky cut through the spin. "If you’re a rural White American living in Michigan, just remember El-Sayed believes you’re a racist." 

That is the problem with this guy. Instead of explaining why Michigan auto workers should trust a candidate who has spent his public life backing the policies that undercut their jobs, he went after another man’s wife. Vance was happy to bring it back to substance. 

Earlier in his speech, Vance accused El-Sayed of undercutting his support for working people by taking liberal positions on immigration.

"We're here to talk about protecting Michigan truck drivers, but also protecting the safety of every single person who drives on the road with a semi truck, which is all of us," Vance said. "Here's the crazy thing. Just a few years ago, Abdul El-Sayed said that we need to make sure that illegal aliens have driver's licenses in this country. He would love to undercut the wages of American truckers."

In 2018, El-Sayed expressed support for allowing illegal immigrants to obtain standard driver's licenses, though he did not specifically push for those in the country illegally to receive the commercial driver's licenses necessary to operate long-haul trucks. 

Vance still landed the broader point. You do not get to pose as the champion of Michigan truckers while floating licenses for people who should not be here. The two men do overlap on one thing. While Vance and El-Sayed differ in their approaches to immigration, both agree, in principle, that tariffs should be used to benefit American industry. That is about where the common ground ends. 

El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and will face Republican Mike Rogers in the general election. If Monday was any indication, he would rather talk about Usha Vance than explain how his record helps auto workers. Vance was not having it.The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.

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Hasan Piker Discovers the Jews Are Somehow Responsible for Antisemitism

Hasan Piker, the multimillionaire socialist who has somehow managed to turn complaining about capitalism into a very lucrative career, is facing backlash after suggesting that American Jews could be responsible for the anti-Semitism directed at them. 

During his Aug. 20 stream, Piker offered a novel solution to anti-Semitism: Apparently, Jews should stop being so Jewish about Israel, or someone might decide to attack them.

“People don’t f–k with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they’re singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone will come around and take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” Piker, a blatant anti-Semite said.

The remark immediately drew criticism from people who apparently missed the memo informing them that blaming Jews for the hatred directed at Jews is not, in fact, a groundbreaking new analysis of anti-Semitism.

Piker, a caviar socialist with a multimillion-dollar home in West Hollywood and a $200,000 Porsche, has become an increasingly prominent surrogate for Democratic Socialists of America congressional candidates. Here's the dude saying "workers of the world unite" from his luxury sports car. 

Among those unwilling to join Piker's latest intellectual adventure was Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who blasted the streamer over what she called “talk of violence” targeting Jewish Michigan State Sen. Jeremy Moss.

Scholten, a Christian, called Piker “a hack who thrives on hate, shock and awe because he lacks substance.”

“Hasan Piker’s talk of violence against American Jews, and directly naming a Michigan elected official, and future member of Congress, Jeremy Moss, is unacceptable. Full stop,” Scholten’s statement read.

“We should all be calling out this disgusting rhetoric so it loses its grip on our politics once and for all. It has no place in Michigan, and no place in our country.”

Piker responded in the traditional manner of the modern political intellectual: by attacking Scholten personally and labeling her an “Israel 1st congresswoman.” 

“if i was an israel 1st congresswoman with a possible cheating scandal with a republican in the state, i wouldn’t spend so much time vying for the spotlight by actively defaming a prominent antizionist voice to harm the dem senate majority chances over a 90/10 issue,” Piker wrote on X. He evidently can'tsee how truth is truth, and has nothing to do with her personal life.

The exchange comes as Piker has become a regular presence on the campaign trail in Michigan, where he backed Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, another Jew-hating jihadi who would be a danger to America if he wins in November.

El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary earlier this month, despite criticism over his association with Piker and the streamer's increasingly inflammatory rhetoric.

Even El-Sayed felt compelled to distance himself from Piker's comments, although apparently without quite reaching the point of actually condemning the man whose political support he had eagerly accepted.

“I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past,” El-Sayed wrote.

He also emphasized that Piker does not speak for his campaign, but clearly they speak the same hateful language. But who doesn't think that political candidates will say anything to get elected?

“nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.” 

Jewish organizations were considerably less diplomatic.

The Jewish Federation of Detroit called Piker's remarks “repugnant and anti-Semitic,” noting that he had discussed violence against Jewish Americans while displaying an image of a Jewish Michigan lawmaker.

“We call on all responsible leaders to condemn this extremist, attention-seeking conduct which divides Americans, foments hate, and makes our Jewish community less safe,” the organization said.

The American Jewish Committee similarly accused Piker of putting a target on Jewish Americans and Jewish candidates and officeholders.

“Blaming Jews for the anti-Semitism directed at them is itself antisemitism,” AJC wrote on X. “Every public official who has shared his platform now has a choice: denounce this and walk away, or be complicit. There is no third option.”

Hillary Scholten 

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt also weighed in, wondering whether elected officials who associate with Piker actually watch his streams or simply notice his enormous audience and decide that the rest is someone else's problem.

“The Jewsplaining is extraordinary: Piker appoints himself an authority on anti-Semitism, lecturing Jews about what is and isn’t anti-Semitic while blaming the Jewish community for the hatred directed against it,” Greenblatt said.

Piker's comments came amid controversy over an audio clip circulating online that purportedly featured Moss saying the “entire purpose” of his congressional campaign was to ensure America's continued support for Israel.

Moss denied making the remarks and said the audio was fabricated, and personally, I believe him.

“We are in a dangerous era of disinformation. Circulating a lie because it affirms your bias or belief is equally bad whether it comes from the left or the right. We all have a choice not to spread fabricated images, videos, and audio about candidates and campaigns. We all have a role in stopping the erosion of our democracy,” Moss said.

Thus, in the latest installment of the Hasan Piker School of Advanced Political Thought, we have learned that anti-Semitism is apparently the Jews' fault, fabricated audio is apparently useful when it advances your argument, and socialism works best when financed by a multimillion-dollar mansion and a $200,000 Porsche.

Karl Marx may have envisioned the proletariat seizing the means of production.

Piker appears to have seized the means of streaming, and anyone believing the garbage he spouts is a fool.

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MI rabbi says he'll vote for Mike Rogers as local Jews worry about El-Sayed's anti-Semitism

In the heart of Michigan, a state long accustomed to the predictable rhythms of Democratic loyalty among its Jewish voters, a note of profound disquiet has begun to sound. 

Rabbi Asher Lopatin, an Orthodox rabbi who serves as director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, has announced that he will cast his ballot for the Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in the November election. The decision, made in his personal capacity and not on behalf of the federation, stems from the Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s positions on Israel and his associations with blatant anti-Semites. 

Lopatin, who, like many uninformed or possibly suicidal liberals has typically voted Democratic, declared: “I’m going to vote for Mike Rogers,” adding, “I have concerns, but I have to do whatever I can to make sure this candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, does not win.” 

His choice comes amid a wider stirring among Jewish leaders in the Wolverine State who naively back Democrats, yet now find themselves contemplating support for Rogers and urging others to do likewise out of alarm over El-Sayed. 

The context is clear enough. El-Sayed narrowly defeated US Representative Haley Stevens by about one percentage point in the August 4 Democratic primary, setting the stage for a November contest against Rogers, a former congressman and the Republican nominee. 

El-Sayed, a Detroit-born physician and progressive former health director in the city, swiftly positioned himself as the most anti-Israel figure in the primary field. He has called for an end to US military support for Israel, accused the Jewish state of genocide [while not making much of what the Hamassholes did on Oct. 7, 2023] and apartheid, branded it a “rogue state,” and insisted that its government and the Hamas terrorist organization are both “evil.” 

He has questioned American support for Israel remaining a Jewish state, asserting that no interpretation of a Jewish state can be reconciled with liberal values. He has further claimed that the only reason a Democrat might support Israel is money, [a scummy anti-Semitic trope] and that it is impossible for a Democrat to back Israel while believing in “human rights.”

Such rhetoric has not gone unnoticed. Lopatin acknowledged the broader Democratic preoccupation with retaining control of the Senate and resisting the administration of President Donald Trump. “I’m sympathetic” to Democrats, he said, yet insisted that “someone like Abdul El-Sayed is unacceptable.” 

The rabbi reserved particular criticism for Senate Minority Leader Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer, a JINO, for endorsing El-Sayed despite these positions on Israel.

El-Sayed’s record includes further episodes that have deepened the unease. In March he hesitated to condemn a terrorist attack on a Michigan synagogue that involved an attempted mass killing of Jewish children. Reports indicated that in private meetings he voiced concern that condemnation might alienate potential voters sympathetic to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group [and it's rumored he a fanboy of  Sheikh Naim Qassem and has a photo of the Hezbollah leader above his bed.]

He even hesitated making a comment on the US-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in late February, citing support for Khamenei among some of his prospective constituents.

The candidate has campaigned alongside the execrable political streamer Hasan "Crapweasel" Piker, whose past remarks about Israel, Jews and terrorism have drawn widespread condemnation. El-Sayed made the political decision and has disavowed Piker’s claim that “America deserved 9/11,” but Lopatin maintains that the distancing has been inadequate. “He’s never disavowed Hasan’s anti-Semitism,” the rabbi said, referring to Piker’s comments about Orthodox Jews.

Rogers’s campaign has moved to capitalize on these concerns, launching a “Democrats for Mike Rogers” coalition to spotlight Democratic voters who say they cannot support El-Sayed. 

Lopatin appeared at the event and underscored that his decision marked a significant departure from his usual pattern. He suggested that the Democratic nominee should “recognize the State of Israel as a legitimate sovereign nation and not cavort with Hasan Piker, a known anti-Semite.” 

Of the Democratic Party he observed: “There should be a long list of things that concern them about him.” 

Earlier this week a group of Michigan Jewish leaders circulated an open letter urging the state’s Jewish population to support Rogers over El-Sayed. 

The letter stated: “If El-Sayed were to win the general election in this important swing state, we fear the far-left and anti-Jewish elements in the Democratic party would become dominant, including in the imminent 2028 presidential race. We cannot allow him to become the Democratic standard-bearer or Michigan’s senator.” 

Jews remain an overwhelmingly Democratic-leaning constituency. Yet the combination of rising anti-Semitism and El-Sayed’s evident antipathy toward Israel has led some to consider whether their traditional allegiance can endure. The Republican campaign is wagering that these anxieties will persuade enough habitual Democrats to cross party lines. 

Whether that calculation yields tangible results in November is far from certain, but the debate itself reveals a fracture that few would have anticipated only a short while ago.

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El-Sayed’s Mom Clocked Time at a Designated Terror Outfit That Funneled Cash to Osama bin Laden

It turns out the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan is everything we thought he is.

Apparently, the party of pink hair, open borders, endless virtue-signaling, and creative definitions of “moderate” decided it was time to add a little international intrigue to the résumé.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recently highlighted how his mother “taught me so much about both how to stand with others, and how to stand alone.” Of course, he meant that he doesn't stand for America and is a blatant anti-Zionist [which is the same as being anti-Semitic].

So far, so wholesome if you don't count the America/Israel stuff.

Then the family biography takes a turn that sounds less like a Senate campaign introduction and more like something the FBI might have filed in a folder marked “Please Explain.”

“They ended up getting divorced,” El-Sayed said of his birth parents during a 2017 speech before the Islamic Foundation. Maybe dad refused to be anti American and anti-Zionist; I don't know.

“And my mother, she remarried a gentleman who was working as a translator in the Middle East and moved back to the Middle East.”

But according to reporting by the Midwesterner, El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, worked from 1999 through at least 2004 for the Islamic American Relief Agency, also known as the Islamic African Relief Agency, a jihadi organization that would love to impose sharia across the globe.

The IARA operated more than 40 offices around the world and publicly focused on health care, orphans, and disadvantaged people in conflict zones. The organization no longer exists as it was dissolved after a federal criminal case, and while they claimed to provide aid and assistance to all people without regard to religion or race, that claim doesn't sit well with those who know how Islamic charities tend to work.

So, in October 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated the worldwide network and five senior officials as supporting terrorism. Treasury said the organization had ties to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

According to a 2004 Treasury announcement:

“IARA is identified as a non-governmental organization (NGO) formerly affiliated with Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK), which was co-founded and financed by UBL (Usama Bin Laden or Osama bin Laden) and is the precursor organization of al Qaida”

Now, obviously, none of this means Abdul El-Sayed personally supports terrorism. A person's family history is not automatically their political ideology, but let's not disregard some of the things he has said. 

Here are a few examples: 

He described America's political system as a "disease" and President Trump as its "worst symptom." In his view, the "disease" is a system that allows "corporations and billionaires and special interest groups like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us."

In 2021, he posted publicly (and later made private) about Trump, comparing his role in the Jan. 6 to Osama bin Laden's role in 9/11, saying Trump "recruited, radicalized and reassured" rioters in a parallel way.

He has called ICE a “rogue agency” that “has nothing to do with immigration” or the southern border, instead “normalizing paramilitary forces,” “weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution,” and that “cannot be reformed” but “has to be abolished.”

Statements critical of Israel:

He has repeatedly accused the Israeli government of genocide in Gaza, apartheid (in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza), and war crimes. He has called Netanyahu a war criminal for conducting a genocide and described Israel as having become a “rogue nation” or “rogue state” due to its government’s choices, saying the U.S. should treat it accordingly under international law (stop selling weapons, end diplomatic cover at the ICC/ICJ/UN).

When asked if the Israeli government is “as evil” as Hamas, he replied: “Yes. Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil… Hamas, evil. Israeli government, evil. You can say both.” He has also called the Israeli government “bloodthirsty” (not limited to Netanyahu; referencing a long-standing “illegal apartheid regime”).

He strongly opposes all U.S. military aid to Israel (offensive and defensive, including systems like Iron Dome—“Weapons are weapons”), arguing it funds genocide/apartheid, annexation efforts (e.g., southern Lebanon), and wars “we don’t need to fight” (including involving Iran). He wants the money used instead for Michigan priorities and has criticized AIPAC heavily as spending tens of millions to influence races for “one more vote” supporting this aid.

On Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state,” he has said he “often struggle[s]” with the question because it requires defining “Jewish state” and whether that is consistent with “liberal values.” He has disputed the idea of an “ethnostate,” noted that no one asks about Palestine’s right to exist (which “doesn’t exist”), and emphasized that Israel “exists” while the key issue is whether it has a right to U.S. tax dollars. He supports equal rights to “peace, dignity, and self-determination” for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, leaving the ultimate form (one state, two states, or otherwise) to them.

In interviews, he has said he is “haunted” by “nightmares about the children who’ve been orphaned at the hands of the Israeli military” (contrasting with positive “dreams” about Israel attributed to others).

But for a Democratic Party that routinely demands a 47-point background investigation before allowing Republicans to exist within 500 yards of public office, this is certainly an interesting family résumé to explain.

After all, when your party has spent years insisting that everybody's background matters, somebody might eventually notice when the background of your own Senate nominee comes with a footnote from the U.S. Treasury Department.

And that's when the campaign slogan “stand with others, and stand alone” starts sounding like extremely useful advice from the communications department.

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