Controversial socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing fresh scrutiny after it was revealed that his close relative is a far-left professor who was arrested on a felony charge last year for her role in an anti-ICE riot.Eman Abdelhadi is a polarizing figure.She works as an associate professor at the University of Chicago's Department of Comparative Human Development, and has a years-long history of landing in the national spotlight for radical activism and inflammatory statements.She's also El-Sayed's half sister.MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER HE STILL SUPPORTS DEFUNDING THE POLICEA mugshot of Eman Adbelhadi from Oct.
3, 2025.(Cook County Sheriff's Office)Last fall, as leftist zealots spent months protesting, sometimes violently, outside an ICE detention facility in suburban Chicago, Abdelhadi was booked after an allegedly spitting on an Illinois sate trooper.
She was charged on Oct.3 with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace, a Class A misdemeanor.A day before her arrest, she appeared on a podcast called "Movement Memos," which is affiliated with the far-left publication Truthout.
During that interview, she recalled her previous experiences at the riots at the Broadview facility. "These people are terrorizing our communities and they’re setting up shop," she said, referring to federal immigration officials."I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up shop in our backyard.
Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community.""And so it felt really important to join protesters out there to say, not in our city, not in our name, not in our backyard," she added.PROGRESSIVE MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE'S STAFFER RAGED AT WHITE WOMEN IN UNEARTHED POSTSAbdelhadi later expressed her frustration at establishment Democrats and claimed there is no wiggle room to accept centrist liberals in the left-wing."Ther...