Abdul El-Sayed Watch

Independent watchdog tracking what Abdul El-Sayed says and does. Every post links to the record

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“Who they’re surrounded by.” Former FBI agent Lara Burns told Dan Senor that was one way U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leaders said they recognized one another. They do not declare it or have some sort of membership. Discussing Abdul El-Sayed, she named the group whose backing concerned her: the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

In 2020, El-Sayed asked donors to support two CAIR chapters. In 2026, CAIR Action endorsed him for Senate. El-Sayed disavows the Brotherhood.

Follow the strings to see who took the stage for him, who raised money for him and whom he hired.

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March 1, 2026: After Iran’s dictator Ali Khamenei was killed, Abdul El-Sayed told his campaign: “I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all,” citing people in Dearborn who were “sad.” His planned pivot if pressed: Trump and Epstein.

Opposing the Iran war did not require dodging questions about its dictator. El-Sayed had a prepared diversion instead of an answer. Michigan’s incoming senator should answer for his national-security judgment, not rehearse ways to escape scrutiny. https://t.co/l11CLdLBoB

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On CNN on April 19, 2026, Abdul El-Sayed was asked whether Israel’s government was “just as evil as Hamas.” He answered “Yes,” citing the Gaza death toll, then added: “Hamas, evil. Israeli government, evil.”

He put the government of an American ally on the same moral footing as the terrorists behind October 7. Michigan’s incoming senator will help decide U.S. support for Israel’s defense. His judgment should alarm anyone who takes that security seriously. https://t.co/YrEEQvOYEA

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Abdul El-Sayed wants to stop Israel buying American weapons with its OWN money. On CNN on Nov. 5, 2026, Michigan’s senator-elect backed ending U.S. military aid and called for a broader halt to weapons transfers.

His proposal goes beyond saving American tax dollars. It would block weapons Israel pays for itself, restricting its ability to equip its military. Cutting off an ally’s access to American weapons is a security decision. Calling it a saving doesn’t erase the consequences. https://t.co/Cql6yfJGAJ

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This is some great reporting from El-Sayed's recent appearance.

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

HABIBI ABDUL: How does Abdul El-Sayed respond when an Arab American leader and supporter blasts "Democratic Zionists" and calls for a "free, free Palestine from the river to the sea," "free from Zionists," who believe in a state of Israel for Jewish people?

Three days after Abdul El-Sayed won a U.S. Senate seat, I walked into a Marriott ballroom last Friday night in Chantilly, Va., for one of his first public appearances. I didn't know what would unfold.

I soon encountered the "red-green" alliance that brought El-Sayed to office and witnessed their anti-Israel rhetoric, their goals and their bullying tactics, dressed up in gowns and evening wear.

READ our full @FoxNews Digital investigation here: https://t.co/9p93CpowOF

Soon after El-Sayed arrived in a luxury SUV that pulled up to the side security dock, Issam Andoni, the chairman of the Arab America Foundation, didn't speak in riddles when he took the stage to introduce El-Sayed to about 500 Arab Americans in the room and two special non-Arabs in the front row: pro-communist, pro-China CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and her husband, Tighe Barry.

Andoni bragged "Habibi Abdul" had overcome opposition from "Democratic Zionists" and how he had "destroyed AIPAC twice," referencing the pro-Israel lobbying group.

A "Zionist" is anyone who believes in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

He said a "movement" had formed behind El-Sayed, and that it was "going to grow and grow and grow" and "connect with other movements."

And then, invoking the sumud — or steadfastness — "of our people in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon," he said: "I'm sure we'll see a free Palestine from the river to the sea."

"A free Palestine, free Palestine from the river to the sea. Free from occupation. Free from Zionists. And free from corruption. And free from apartheid."

El-Sayed listened, his hands clasped in front of him, smiling quietly.

Dr. @yudapearl, I thought of you as I filmed this speech. It confirms your thesis that the word "Zionist" has become the Trojan horse for anti-semitism and the destruction of the state of Israel through the phenomenon of "Zionophobia," as you coined it.

@DavidSuissaJJ @JoshKraushaar @BillAckman @OrliPeter, friends: please note how the rhetoric to make Palestine "free of Zionism" "from the river to the sea," a land that covers modern day Israel, adds up to the destruction of the state of Israel as a Jewish state.

My video work is a little wobbly at moments because I got media credentials to cover the event but El-Sayed's backers were constantly harassing me during El-Sayed's speech as I filmed the event, corralling me away from the stage, the balding man in front me, Omar Kurdi, standing in front of me to block my view, a woman scolding me to "go to the back" as I was on bended knee, filming. They didn't harass any other reporters.

In this thread I'll explain, plainly, what the "red-green" alliance is, what activists mean when they say "free from Zionists" and "from the river to the sea" and how to translate messaging about remarks El-Sayed later said about "rules-based" systems, mirroring Chinese propaganda, so you can understand and protect yourself against cognitive warfare.

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Abdul El-Sayed registered Habibi PAC on Nov. 6 to fund political allies. It’s a leadership political action committee. “Habibi,” Arabic for “my beloved,” echoes his Arab American campaign branding into fundraising.

He ran on “money out of politics,” targeting corporate money. As of Nov. 10, the Federal Election Commission lists no donor or spending totals. We haven’t verified endorsements or candidate requirements. The money will show whose influence he builds. https://t.co/CfDeXUi6sy

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Abdul El-Sayed wants Congress to cut off funding for the Iran war before he casts his first Senate vote. On Nov. 6, Michigan’s senator-elect urged Democrats to block a bill to keep the government open past Dec. 11 unless it bars spending on the war. https://t.co/7Y9vmELxba

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On Oct. 7, 2025, Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign asked for donations in an email about Israel’s invasion of Gaza. It left out Hamas’s attack and the hostages. El-Sayed condemned Hamas separately that day. His campaign called the timing a mistake.
https://t.co/OasIPqW4H4

[Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12]

Abdul El-Sayed sends out a fundraising email: "Two years ago this month, Netanyahu’s military launched a ground invasion of Gaza.

Since then, the world has watched tragedy unfold in real time...."

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During Michigan’s 2026 Senate primary, Abdul El-Sayed said AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, backed his opponent Haley Stevens because she’d be a “reliable vote to a foreign government.” Voters should also know who spent money to elect him.

On July 20, CAIR Action gave $100,000 to Unity & Justice Fund. A day later, Unity gave $175,000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, an independent group working to elect El-Sayed. His own side of the campaign-finance ledger deserves the same scrutiny.

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In November 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, issued a decree putting his decisions beyond judicial review. Egypt’s Al-Ahram published a letter backing him. Signer No. 33 was Abdul El-Sayed, now Michigan’s senator-elect.

The signers feared officials loyal to Egypt’s former dictator and wanted Morsi’s powers to expire with a new constitution. But they also urged him to “purge the media and the police.” El-Sayed backed giving that power to a president the courts couldn’t check.

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Abdul El-Sayed denies ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. If you want to know where Michigan’s senator-elect stands on Israel’s security, you don’t need a theory about his family. You can read his answer to Kaitlan Collins.

Asked in August about U.S. funding for Iron Dome, he said, “I don't believe that there's really a difference between offensive or defensive weapons.” He argued that the money should go to schools in Michigan.

Debate the budget. But try telling a family in Sderot there’s no difference between the rocket coming toward their home and the interceptor sent up to stop it.

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Feb. 2024 | El-Sayed backed an “uncommitted” vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary to pressure Biden for a ceasefire in Gaza. His warning the day after the vote: “Let’s not risk these votes in November.” He later endorsed Harris for the general election.
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[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

>100,000 Michiganders voted #uncommitted in an uncontested primary yesterday over the admin’s handling of Gaza.

The margin of victory in a hotly contested general 4 yrs ago was ~150,000.

The message is clear: ceasefire now.

Let’s not risk these votes in November.

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Mar. 13, 2026 | El-Sayed condemned the attack on Michigan’s Temple Israel, then said “hurt people hurt people” and brought up Israel’s war in Lebanon. In August he apologized. By his own later account, the condemnation was where he should have stopped.
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Apr. 7, 2026 | El-Sayed said 9/11 was unjustified. He still shared two campaign stages with Hasan Piker, who had said “America deserved 9/11” and later walked it back. Asked what he’d disavow, El-Sayed dismissed the question as “platform policing.”
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2026 platform | El-Sayed called for immediate reinvestment in UNRWA. The UN had fired nine employees after finding they may have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. His platform names the agency he wants funded and offers no safeguard specific to those findings.
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Oct. 8, 2026 | Which country posed a greater threat to Americans, Iran or Israel? El-Sayed said Iran could attack us and blamed Israel for pulling us into war. Pressed to choose, he said, “I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way.”
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Oct. 23, 2026 | El-Sayed’s campaign ran an ad quoting Tucker Carlson: “I wouldn’t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint.” Carlson had cited Rogers’ support for Israel as a major reason. That’s the clip El-Sayed chose to make his case to Republicans.
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On 60 Minutes, Nov. 1, 2026, El-Sayed answered “Yes” when asked if Palestine has a right to exist. Asked about Israel, he added “If there is a shared understanding” and discussed one state or two. Only the Jewish state’s existence got a qualifier.

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On Nov. 8, El-Sayed challenged Trump’s choice of Stephen Miller. His own choice to lead his Senate transition? Brenda Abdelall. As a student in 2002, she said Zionists were “controlling a lot” of U.S. politics. That remark was public when he put her in charge.

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[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

I received this testimony from a Muslim cleric in Gaza, a former imam who broke with Hamas and its jihadist Islamist ideology and is now displaced in Deir al-Balah. He describes how Hamas destroyed an entire generation during its 2-decade rule by radicalizing children from a young age through extremist camps and narratives that glorified violence, hatred, and fanaticism, the same worldview on display on October 7.

As I have noted repeatedly, a growing number of Gazans are drawing a direct line between two generations of indoctrination, the atrocities of October 7, and the devastation that followed in Gaza. These anti-Hamas voices reject the "resistance" narrative and recognize an obvious reality: rebuilding Gaza requires de-radicalization alongside de-militarization. Their ranks are growing. If acknowledged, supported, and nurtured, this movement could become one of the most consequential forces shaping Gaza's future.