A newly elected senator is already drawing a hard line around who belongs in his party.
Michigan's new senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed, is already demanding that the Democratic Party expel its own over Israel, the Daily Wire reported. Fresh off his win 10 days ago, he told PBS NewsHour that Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., effectively "self-expelled" from the party by endorsing his Republican opponent.
"When you self-expel, at some point, you're choosing to walk all the way out of the tent. And that was a choice she made," El-Sayed said when asked if there is room in a "big tent" for a Democrat like Stevens. Stevens has not left the Democratic Party and remains a sitting House Democrat.
El-Sayed's primary victory over Stevens was powered by progressive anger at her support for Israel, and he is now arguing that a Democrat like her has stepped outside the party's tent. On Israel itself, he declared that Americans have reached "consensus" against using tax dollars "to buy bombs and tanks for other countries."
He then accused Israel of "genocide or apartheid" and of fighting "a war we have no business fighting for the annexation of a different country." He demanded that all foreign military aid be conditioned on his version of "international law," grouping the Jewish state with Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia as undeserving.
This is not an isolated argument. On 60 Minutes, he answered "yes" instantly when asked if "Palestine" has a right to exist, then hedged when asked the same about Israel: "Yes, if there is a shared understanding."
At a "Jews for Abdul" event, he admitted he "struggles" with Israel existing as a Jewish state and branded it an apartheid regime. After a truck slammed into a Michigan synagogue, he tried to argue that "hurt people hurt people."
He has shared stages with far-left agitator Hasan Piker, stayed silent on the October 7 anniversary while blaming Benjamin Netanyahu for pushing America toward war with Iran, and dismissed questions about whether Israel or Iran poses the greater threat as "dumb." When an Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan confronted him over the IRGC's brutality and the Islamic Republic's body count, El-Sayed refused to condemn the regime and instead lectured about American "regime change" and acting as the "world's policemen."
The Daily Wire also reported that he once signed a letter urging Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president to purge the media and police, and that he cries Islamophobia whenever these facts surface. The outlet said his half-sister once posted that the family had long ties to the Brotherhood and that his mother worked for an Islamic charity until the Treasury Department shut it down in 2004 for terror financing.
This is the man Democrats just elevated as the first Muslim senator, and his first instinct is to police the party's boundaries against anyone insufficiently hostile to Israel. El-Sayed is torching the Democratic Party from the inside, and the bill for that radicalism will come due far beyond Michigan.
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