(Aug. 11, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s narrow victory in Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate primary was a clarifying moment. By endorsing the winner, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) abandoned all pretense of serving as a shomer, or \u201cguardian,\u201d of the beleaguered Jewish community. It is not just that Schumer indicated that he would endorse even an antisemite for political gain; it is that he did.<\/p>\n
El-Sayed has not hidden his attitude toward Jews, which wallpapers slogans about Israel and Zionism over classical antisemitism. No one of intelligence could fail to see the similarities between his beliefs and those that overtook Germany less than a century ago.<\/p>\n
He regards the Jews as a collective threat, stating without evidence that the Israeli government is \u201cjust as evil as Hamas,\u201d the genocidal terrorists responsible for the worst anti-Jewish massacre since the Holocaust. El-Sayed claimed that rescuing hostages from torture and rape, and neutralizing those genocidal terrorists, constitutes \u201cgenocide.\u201d Jewish lives, in other words, have no value in his view.<\/p>\n
In a modern spin on the old \u201cChosen People\u201d myth, he accuses Jews of racism, calling the only Middle Eastern country that gives both Jews and Arabs civil rights an \u201capartheid\u201d state. And like his ideological forebears, he considers a boycott of Jews an appropriate \u201cresponse.\u201d Perhaps worst of all, El-Sayed used these depraved lies about Israel to justify violence against Jews in his home state. This is no different than the Nazis blaming Jews for the violence of Kristallnacht in 1938.<\/p>\n
No one who values Western civilization or basic human decency would consider El-Sayed remotely fit to be a U.S. senator.<\/p>\n
This brings us back to Schumer, who is placing political gain ahead of moral principle. During the primary, he backed the more moderate, pro-Israel candidate Rep. Haley Stevens. But once El-Sayed prevailed, Schumer immediately pivoted and was quite forthright about why. He issued a statement with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chair Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) that declared they were \u201cunited by a common purpose\u201d with El-Sayed: \u201ctaking back the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Schumer, party cohesion and electoral math come first, while the character of the nominee takes a distant second. That is why he and Gillibrand both supported the now disgraced Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, despite his Nazi tattoo and a series of scandals, until a sexual assault accusation from a former Platner girlfriend sent them scurrying like rats abandoning a sinking ship.<\/p>\n