Abdul El-Sayeds sisters also rants against July 4th and Thanksgiving in holiday-hating posts
It’s a family of holiday killjoys.The sister of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has also dismissed classic American holidays as her candidate brother has been called out for hating on the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and the national pastime of football.Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor of comparative human development at the University of Chicago, had several social media posts resurface in the wake of her sibling’s primary victory in the Wolverine State earlier this month.“Excuse me if I don’t celebrate the transfer of stolen land from one colonizer to another,” Abdelhadi posted on Twitter, now X, in July 2016, hashtagging the July 4th holiday.In other posts, the college professor claimed “settler colonial propaganda” was potentially being taught at her niece’s school, only to breathe a sigh of relief after learning that the main takeaway about Thanksgiving was “turkeys.”“If it weren’t attached to genocide,” Abdelhadi also said in a November 2024 post, “thanksgiving would be a lovely holiday.
People gathering to declare gratitude and eat a meal without the need to exchange gifts or buy anything besides food.”“We can’t have nice things under settler colonialism.May all the empires fall,” she declared in the same post.“Abdul loves his sister and also disagrees with her on a number of political positions and the rhetoric she’s chosen to use, including on foreign policy,” said El-Sayed campaign spokesperson Sophie Pollock.“But Abdul is the one on the ballot and his record of public service and his platform is what matters to voters here in Michigan.
His campaign has always been about his love for America and Michigan.”Abdelhadi, a pro-Palestinian and anti-ICE activist, was also arrested last year for protesting outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago and allegedly had spit on an Illinois state trooper, Fox News reported.“There’s no center left,” she later said of her actions ...