A longtime Democrat congressman says that Abdul El-Sayed’s Democrat primary victory for Michigan proves that the Left has “normalized” hate “in plain sight,” adding that this is “scary” for all Americans.
In an op-ed for The Free Press, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote that his party is “being hijacked by socialists” and is “overrun by antisemitism.”
Throughout the Michigan primary campaign, El-Sayed refused to condemn the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because it could “upset” some of his voters. He also justified a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack against Temple Israel synagogue and preschool in Michigan.
El-Sayed also appeared alongside leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who, Gottheimer wrote, previously “praised Hamas, referred to Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred,’ and blamed America for 9/11.”
El-Sayed disavowed Piker’s 9/11 comments over the weekend.
Gottheimer accused El-Sayed of choosing to campaign on controversial issues such as Israel, rather than “focusing on lower costs for families,” which he claimed comes as a warning that does not only apply to the Jewish community.
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“This shouldn’t scare only the Jews—these sentiments are anti-American,” he wrote.
A recent survey found that 60% of young Americans side with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization responsible for the murders, rapes, and kidnappings of more than 1,000 people in one day, over Israel.
In the op-ed, the congressman used the example of the June 30 congressional primary victory by Melat Kiros, a Colorado socialist, to prove that El-Sayed’s successful campaign is not a one-time occurrence.
During her campaign, Kiros refused to say that last year’s arson attack on Jewish protesters in Boulder, which injured a Holocaust survivor, was antisemitic.
Gottheimer also accused these same Democrat candidates of ignoring the misogynistic and antisemitic culture that’s “pervasive in most Arab countries.”
In most Arab countries, arranged child marriages, the subjugation of women, genital mutilation of women, and the outlawing of homosexuality are strictly enforced, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.
According to the Institute for National Security Studies, textbooks and religious scripture in the Arab world depict Jews using vitriolic tropes, from the Prophet Muhammad’s seemingly tense relations with Arabian Jews to the influence of modern European antisemitism and backlash against Zionist “settler-colonialism.”
The congressman wrote that his party’s tendency to overlook those issues is an “early warning sign” that the “whole system is starting to break down.”
“The Jewish people may be the target today, but they will come for someone else tomorrow,” he added. “A culture that tolerates violence and hatred against a minority, in language or in policy, is a culture in decay.”
Ultimately, Gottheimer attributed this to the socialist attempt to “hijack” his own party’s “values, ideals, and leadership.”
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In July, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., told CNN that the House Progressive Caucus “had become more of a socialist caucus, and most of the leadership was socialist Democrats.”
“I didn’t feel comfortable in it,” Cohen said, adding that the progressive caucus is now home to members who are “so anti-Israel.”
Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, also has acknowledged the growing fringe of anti-Israel socialists within the party and has said the issue will divide and “weaken us” from within.
Similarly, Jewish organizations have alerted voters to the rise of this growing fringe of the Democratic Party.
After El-Sayed’s victory, Michigan Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League Elyssa Schmier stated that “Jews across Michigan and the country are alarmed by the rhetoric that defined this race and its implications for the future of political norms in our country,” adding that “anyone seeking public office should know better than to normalize antisemitic tropes.”
In a different statement, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, accused El-Sayed of “peddling in antisemitic tropes” and “campaigning with notorious bigot Hasan Piker.”
El-Sayed and Kiros have not responded to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
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