Pro-Abdul El-Sayed ad sparks fury with claim Israel to blame for high grocery prices: Case study in antisemitism
A shocking new ad supporting Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed blames Israel for rising grocery prices, triggering allegations of antisemitism.The spot shows a couple in a grocery store grumbling over the prices of eggs and bananas — and claiming that US aid to Israel is the reason they can’t afford the staples.“Honey, you’re going to have to put those eggs back,” the woman says.“They like eggs, but we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”“Don’t we give Israel $4 billion a year anyway?” the man asks.“Yeah, and now we’re giving them another $26 billion,” she explains.
“It’s like $161 per person.Apparently it’s costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.”The spot was released by Rebellion PAC, created by “The Young Turks” co-founder Cenk Uygur, and blames the war in Iran for high gas prices before accusing Rogers of being too supportive of Israel.“Mike Rogers is for they/them,” a narrator says in reference to Israel, twisting a famous pro-Trump ad from the 2024 election cycle.
“Abdul El-Sayed is for you.”The ad has triggered an outcry across the political spectrum, led by the Anti-Defamation League.“You want to know what desperate looks like?” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on X Sunday.“Blaming the price of bananas on Israel.
Consider this PAC ad just another example of scapegoating the Jewish state.At least we can thank them for a case study in antisemitism.”“The scapegoating of Jews in this campaign ad designed to benefit Abdul El-Sayed was much better in the original 1938 German version,” added Joel Petlin, superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District in Orange County, NY.Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, described the ad as “dumb and bigoted at scale.”“It’s innumerate and morally obtuse and if anything remotely like it was aimed at Muslims [Uygur] and his ilk would (defensibly) be outraged.
But this s–t is fine when aimed at the you...