MI Dem Senate Candidate El-Sayed Says There's No Justification for Temple Israel Attack & Then Justifies It

Abdul El-Sayed, who is vying to be the Democratic Party nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, has excused the terrorist attack which took place last month against Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan under the guise of stating nothing justified the violence:

Nothing justifies the heinous attack that we saw on Temple Israel. I also think it’s just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here, and if we stand against violence, we’ve got to stand against violence, all violence. 

Of further note:

When a reporter from The Free Press pressed El-Sayed on his claim, asking whether a similar argument would have allowed sympathy for a Jewish person attacking a mosque after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel, he suggested the circumstances were not the same. 

“After Oct. 7, there was a whole genocide against Palestinians,” El-Sayed said. 

If El-Sayed truly deplored anti-Semitic violence, then he would have simply stated, "Nothing justifies the heinous attack that we saw on Temple Israel." Full stop. 

But he didn't stop there. Hurt people hurt people? No, most people who lose loved one managed to go through life without killing anyone. 

Then El-Sayed went further in justifying the attack on Temple Israel by effectively saying synagogues are legitimate targets for violence because of "genocide against Palestinians."

Never mind that the attacker's family was Lebanese, not Palestinian. Of course, El-Sayed neglects to mention that the attacker's brother was a Hezbollah commander. I suppose in El-Sayed's eyes members of Hezbollah are honorary Palestinians as they joined Hamas attack against Israel on October 8th.

It must be further mentioned that El-Sayed made these comments while campaigning with Hasan Piker, who can be best described as Nick Fuentes without the intellectual pretensions. Piker is someone who has praised Hamas, said he does not care if Hamas committed rape while claiming Orthodox Jews are inbred. El-Sayed tells me a great deal about himself when he excuses violence against Jews attack while campaigning with someone who publicly supports Hamas and promotes hatred against Jews. Furthermore, El-Sayed wants Democrats to publicly embrace Piker and many young Democratic activists are doing exactly that.

El-Sayed is in a three-way race in the Democratic primary with Congresswoman Haley Stevens and State Senator Mallory McMorrow. The winner of that race would face Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in this November's mid-terms. El-Sayed has not previously held public office although he previously made an unsuccessful bid for Governor in 2018 in a race which Gretchen Whitmer prevailed. 

If El-Sayed wins the Democratic Party nomination, it will demonstrate how deeply entrenched anti-Semitism has become in the party. If El-Sayed wins a seat in the U.S. Senate, then it will demonstrate how mainstream anti-Semitism has become in the United States. This neither bodes well for the future of either American Jewry or American democracy.