Abdul El-Sayed cant dodge vile antisemitic ad because it parrots his own words

“We’re paying $5 gas.We’re paying more for groceries because of a war we should not be fighting, at the behest of whom?“The government of Israel.”That’s a quote from Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in a tight Michigan race against Republican Mike Rogers.Compare that quote to the ad made in support of El-Sayed that everyone agrees is overtly antisemitic.El-Sayed won’t denounce the ad, but his defenders insist he can’t be blamed for it.I provide the quote above to make absolutely clear that the spot everyone agrees is antisemitic is drawn from Abdul El-Sayed’s explicit statements.The candidate and the commercial, then, are equally antisemitic.The ad depicts a couple in a grocery store doing their food shopping.The wife tells her partner he has to put the eggs back because they can’t afford them.“We have to set that seven dollars aside for killing Palestinians,” she says.The husband whines about the money they already give Israel; the wife complains that each individual American must now fork over another $161 to the Jewish state to “drop bombs on Gaza.”The couple then moan that Americans are also paying for Israeli universal health care.“Might as well put the bananas back,” the woman grumbles.None of this is true, obviously.But the lies are almost beside the point of an ad that would make the Nazis blush.The real point is to plant the idea that Americans are going hungry because of the Jews.The video isn’t new — what’s new is the addition of the names of the Michigan Senate contenders.The ad is put out by a group run by left-wing propagandist Cenk Uyghur (who happens to be the uncle of Hasan Piker, another antisemitic El-Sayed proxy).But the idea undergirding the ad is El-Sayed’s.So let’s just be clear: If the ad is indefensible, so is he.Here’s another example.In August, the writer Anand Giridharadas interviewed El-Sayed and asked the Michigan Democrat about his obsession with connecting Israel to local ...