Michigan Democrats Just Nominated the Most Antisemitic US Senate Candidate in America

Washington, DC - The Republican Jewish Coalition released the following statement from CEO Matt Brooks on the Democrats' nomination of Abdul El-Sayed as their candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan:

Abdul El-Sayed is a direct threat to Michigan's Jewish community.

El-Sayed has called the government of the Jewish state as 'evil' as Hamas, 'struggled' to say that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, and empathized with a terrorist who tried to murder Jewish schoolchildren at Temple Israel in the Detroit suburbs - and yet, Michigan Democrats just picked him as their nominee for the United States Senate.

Michigan's Jewish community does not need this explained to them. They lived it. They watched the smoke rise over Walnut Lake Road in March. Then they watched Abdul El-Sayed reach for a microphone and offer his rationale for why the attack happened: not to blame the terrorist, but to place the blame 6,000 miles away and the burden on the Jews of West Bloomfield. Their own rabbi called it what it was: offensive. El-Sayed later told his own supporters that saying it was a 'risk.' It wasn't a risk, but it was a clear revelation.

El-Sayed has campaigned arm-in-arm with Hasan Piker while Michigan State's Hillel was warning students about a 'known antisemite' on their campus. He wants to strip Israel not just of the weapons it uses to defend itself, but of the defensive systems that intercept the rockets aimed at innocent civilians. He said 'I call bullshit' on any definition of antisemitism that touches his politics. His campaign's primary organizing principle is that a pro-Israel Jewish American advocacy group is a hidden hand behind everything wrong in Michigan - an argument so ugly that Haley Stevens herself called it blatant antisemitism.

There is nothing complicated about the choice this November.

Mike Rogers is a distinguished Army veteran and former FBI special agent who chaired the House Intelligence Committee. He spent fourteen years in Congress as one of the most reliable pro-America, pro-Israel voices in the House, and he has been unflinching about confronting antisemitism wherever it appears. The RJC is honored to have endorsed Mike Rogers, and we are proud to stand with him. Rogers came within 0.34% of victory in 2024-we will help to ensure that he wins in 2026.

To our friends in Michigan's Jewish community, including the tens of thousands who have voted Democrat their entire adult lives and now find themselves politically homeless: this is the moment for real change and action. There are more than 100,000 Jewish voters in the Wolverine State. We are not a rounding error, we are the decisive margin.

Mike Rogers has earned your vote.

The RJC will spend every day between now and November making sure Michigan knows the difference between Mike Rogers, who will stand with you, and Abdul El-Sayed, who will defend the people who come after you.