Gavin Newsom puts party over principles backing Abdul El-Sayed

Gavin Newsom’s decision to endorse and campaign for radical left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a betrayal of California voters and of the liberal principles he claims to uphold.El-Sayed is a slick operator who used the enthusiasm of the left-wing base to eke out a primary win against Representative Haley Stevens in the race for US Senate in Michigan.The “progressive” El-Sayed owns homes on three continents, yet poses as the champion of the working class, making socialist promises like “Medicare for All” — which, as Newsom knows, failed in California because the cost of paying for illegal immigrants was unsustainable.But the real problem with El-Sayed is that he empathizes with terrorists, and harbors a hatred for Jews that he cannot hide. Earlier this year, when an Islamic terrorist attacked a synagogue near Detroit, with dozens of schoolchildren inside, El-Sayed condemned the attack — but then tried to justify it.He blamed the attack on the fact that the attacker “lost family … in an airstrike on Lebanon” the week before.And who was his “family”? A commander in Hezbollah, the terror group that fires rockets at Israeli civilians.El-Sayed also campaigned with extremist podcaster Hasan Piker, who said the US “deserved 9/11,” and said he preferred terrorist Hamas to democratic Israel.

Piker likes to point out that he has apologized for the first statement.He has never apologized for the second.El-Sayed cannot bring himself to say that Israel has a right to exist.

And after he won the primary, he called Israel “bloodthirsty” — a slanderous accusation against a free people who have been fighting a defensive war they did not start.In fact, El-Sayed opposes funding for Iron Dome — a defensive weapon that keeps Hamas rockets from hitting Israeli civilians and has, in years past, helped Israel avoid going to war.Of course, El-Sayed says that he loves Jews — just not Israel, or AIPAC.But half the world’s Jews live in Israel, and I...