{"id":1085,"date":"2026-10-30T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:26:14","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-cant-dodge-vile-antisemitic-ad-because-it-parrots-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El-Sayed can’t dodge vile antisemitic ad \u2014 because it parrots his own words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0paying $5 gas. We\u2019re paying more for groceries because of a war we should not be fighting, at the behest of whom?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a quote from Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee<\/a> for Senate in a tight Michigan race against Republican Mike Rogers.<\/p>\n

Compare that quote to the ad made in support of El-Sayed<\/a> that everyone agrees is overtly antisemitic.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed won\u2019t denounce the ad, but his defenders insist he can\u2019t be blamed for it.<\/p>\n

I provide the quote above to make absolutely clear that the spot everyone agrees is antisemitic is drawn from Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s explicit statements.<\/p>\n

The candidate and the commercial, then, are equally antisemitic.<\/p>\n

The ad depicts a couple in a grocery store doing their food shopping.<\/p>\n

The wife tells her partner he has to put the eggs back because they can\u2019t afford them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to set that seven dollars aside for killing Palestinians,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The husband whines about the money they already give Israel; the wife complains that each individual American must now fork over another $161 to the Jewish state to \u201cdrop bombs on Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple then moan that Americans are also paying for Israeli universal health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cMight as well put the bananas back,\u201d the woman grumbles.<\/p>\n

None of this is true, obviously.<\/p>\n

But the lies are almost beside the point of an ad that would make the Nazis blush.<\/p>\n

The real point is to plant the idea that Americans are going hungry because of the Jews.<\/p>\n

The video isn\u2019t new \u2014 what\u2019s new is the addition of the names of the Michigan Senate contenders.<\/p>\n

The ad is put out by a group run by left-wing propagandist Cenk Uyghur<\/a> (who happens to be the uncle of Hasan Piker, another antisemitic El-Sayed proxy).<\/p>\n

But the idea undergirding the ad<\/em> is El-Sayed\u2019s.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s just be clear: If the ad is indefensible, so is he.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another example.<\/p>\n

In August, the writer Anand Giridharadas interviewed El-Sayed and asked the Michigan Democrat about his obsession with connecting Israel to local issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how El-Sayed responded:<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael is an affordability issue. Every time you want to put glasses on kids\u2019 faces or give people health care or fix a school, somebody pops up and is like, Well, how are you going to pay for that?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe we should keep our money here instead of sending it there to drop bombs on people\u2019s schools or their hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our money. You just saw $3.3 billion voted to send abroad to a foreign government that, by the way, has guaranteed health care and can guarantee college education without debt. We can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you want to send my money over there? That\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notice the common formula?<\/p>\n

El-Sayed says Michiganders can\u2019t afford basic services because that money is being spent by Israel \u201cto drop bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel, he complains \u2014 just like the complaining couple in the Jew-baiting ad \u2014 \u201chas guaranteed health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore \u201cinsane,\u201d El-Sayed says, that \u201cyou want to send my money over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

El-Sayed has been saying some form of this all through the campaign. It\u2019s basically his only idea.<\/p>\n

Every bumper-sticker line you hear from El-Sayed is a version of this grocery ad.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only Democrat angrily spitting this propaganda, of course.<\/p>\n

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a New York Democratic House nominee, blamed the Jewish state<\/a> for gentrification.<\/p>\n

New York Assembly candidate Lydia Green said, \u201cThe more we\u2019re spending on genocide and displacement of Palestinians, the less we\u2019re spending on housing, feeding and caring for New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does it require an astonishing level of innumeracy and economic ignorance to believe that when the US gives Israel vouchers to buy weapons from American manufacturers \u2014 thus expanding American jobs and American manufacturing \u2014 it\u2019s somehow taking eggs and bananas out of the mouths of theoretical Abdul El-Sayed voters?<\/p>\n

Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why no one believes it.<\/p>\n

But some people want to believe it, and others pretend to believe it.<\/p>\n

One person in the latter category is Abdul El-Sayed \u2014 the inspiration for some of the ugliest political antisemitism in America.<\/p>\n

X: @SethAMandel<\/a>. Adapted from Commentary<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See more of our coverage in your search results. Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed addresses supporters at a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan on Oct. 24, 2026. REUTERS \u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0paying $5 gas. We\u2019re paying more for groceries because of a war we should not be fighting, at the behest of whom? \u201cThe government of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bd24.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}