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<\/a>Anti-Israel Michigan Senate Candidate Promoted Group Behind Holocaust Memorial Protests<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nCorey Walker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Abdul El-Sayed, a\u00a0Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan<\/a>, is facing scrutiny over his past fundraising and public support for a political advocacy group whose affiliates organized anti-Israel protests at Holocaust memorial sites in Washington, DC, and the Detroit metro area.<\/span><\/p>\n El-Sayed previously recorded a fundraising video and appeared at multiple events in support of Justice, Education, Technology PAC (JET-PAC), an organization focused on expanding the political influence of Muslim Americans in US politics. In the video, posted online in 2018, El-Sayed urged viewers to donate to the group, praising its efforts to train Muslim Americans in civic engagement and advocacy.<\/span><\/p>\n JET-PAC later drew widespread condemnation after its medical advocacy arm, Doctors Against Genocide, helped organize protests outside the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The demonstrations condemned Israel\u2019s military campaign against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza and described the war as a \u201cgenocide,\u201d language that Jewish leaders and Holocaust educators denounced as false, antisemitic, and deeply offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) called on activists to obtain free tickets to the Holocaust Museum in Washington with the intention of protesting inside the facility before moving the demonstration to the White House. The planned protest sparked backlash from Jewish organizations and community leaders, who argued that targeting Holocaust memorial sites crossed a moral line.<\/span><\/p>\n The group\u00a0ultimately canceled the demonstration<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe goal of our event was to visit the Holocaust Museum to express our empathy for the horrors of that genocide. Additionally, we wanted to bring awareness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur initial communication did not sufficiently convey this, leading to misinterpretations and unfounded accusations,\u201d it continued. \u201cAs DAG we stand against all hate of vulnerable people, whether that hate comes in the form of antisemitism, anti-Palestinianism, anti-Black hate, anti-White hate, or any other prejudice. Never again for all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a later statement, the group\u00a0apologized for a \u201clack of clarity\u201d but continued to imply that the Holocaust is comparable to Israel\u2019s military operations against Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that launched the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is antisemitic, according to the\u00a0International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism<\/a>, which has been adopted by dozens of governments and hundreds of civic institutions around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the backlash, DAG, which is a program of JET-PAC, later orchestrated a protest outside the\u00a0Zekelman Holocaust Center in July 2024, once again sparking outrage from local Jewish community leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Organizers of the protest explained that they targeted the museum over its purported positive portrayal of Israel and alleged unwillingness to elevate the historical displacement of Palestinian Arabs.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe museum is not objective. They present the history that the right-wing will allow them to put on. The question we have for them is: How are you now going to portray the Nakba,\u201d said Rene Lichtman, a Holocaust survivor and organizer of the demonstration.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNakba,\u201d the Arabic term for \u201ccatastrophe,\u201d is\u00a0used by Palestinians and anti-Israel activists<\/a>\u00a0to refer to the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou end the story, and I know because I\u2019ve been speaking here forever, with the happy ending of the Jews, the [Nazi concentration] camp survivors coming to Israel,\u201d Lichtman continued. \u201cBut that is no longer the ending. We know that from the last eight months. What about the Palestinian people?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Jacobs, a lawyer, community activist, and co-director of the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity, said protests at Holocaust centers amount to an attack on Jewish historical memory.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI find it pretty grotesque that the protesters would select the Holocaust Center, a solemn and sacred place, to essentially call for the eradication of Israel, which was created as a safe harbor for the Jewish people after the world\u2019s worst genocide,\u201d Jacobs told Deadline Detroit in July, referring to the Zekelman protest. \u201cBut of course we have seen a steady stream of antisemitic protests, vandalism, and violence at various Jewish sites throughout the US and the world since the barbarism of Oct. 7.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At the\u00a0protest outside the Zekelman Holocaust Center<\/a>, speakers accused Israel of war crimes and criticized what they described as the influence of \u201cIsrael\u2019s lobbyists.\u201d\u00a0Dr. Nadal Jboor, a featured speaker and member of Doctors Against Genocide, said Israel\u2019s military actions should be stopped through international pressure, calling a ceasefire a \u201cmedical intervention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n JET-PAC, founded by former Cambridge, Massachusetts city councilor Nadeem Mazen, has described its mission as empowering Muslim Americans politically. El-Sayed appeared at JET-PAC galas and panels alongside the group\u2019s leadership and promoted the organization on social media over multiple years, calling it \u201camazing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the 2018 fundraising video, El-Sayed said JET-PAC was \u201cincredibly important for engagement, political engagement for the Muslim community,\u201d adding that the group helped people \u201cfight for and advocate for a more just, more equitable, more sustainable society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n El-Sayed\u2019s support for the organization raises questions about his policies toward the Jewish community and combating extremism in the wake of the Holocaust memorial protests, which occurred amid a\u00a0historic rise in antisemitic hate crimes across the US<\/a>\u00a0following Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n El-Sayed\u2019s campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.<\/span><\/p>\n The controversy has unfolded as El-Sayed and another Michigan Senate candidate, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, have both publicly accused Israel of committing genocide, positions that have alienated some Jewish voters in the battleground state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Just days before the anniversary of the Oct. 7 atrocities, McMorrow called Israel\u2019s response in Gaza a \u201cmoral abomination,\u201d saying it was \u201cjust as horrendous\u201d as the attack carried out by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists, who perpetrated the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n However, McMorrow has since softened her stance on the Israel-Hamas war, recently lamenting in an interview that the term \u201cgenocide\u201d has\u00a0become a \u201cpurity test\u201d for<\/a>\u00a0many progressive Democrats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Detroit-based community activist and philanthropist Lisa Mark Lis said McMorrow\u2019s comments echoed antisemitic tropes and amounted to political pandering.<\/span><\/p>\n Lis wrote in a Facebook post that McMorrow\u2019s comment \u201cfeeds into the Jew-hatred tropes and is a lie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n El-Sayed has not publicly addressed the Holocaust museum protests directly, but his past fundraising and advocacy for JET-PAC have drawn new attention as Jewish leaders warn that invoking genocide rhetoric at Holocaust memorials represents a dangerous normalization of antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n Jewish organizations have repeatedly stressed that criticism of Israeli policy does not justify protests at institutions dedicated to memorializing the murder of six million Jews, arguing that such actions exploit Holocaust memory and inflame anti-Jewish hostility.<\/span><\/p>\n The progressive champion was a\u00a0prominent supporter<\/a>\u00a0of the \u201cUncommitted movement,\u201d a coalition of Democratic officials which refused to support the 2024 Kamala Harris presidential campaign over what they characterized as her support for Israel. However, El-Sayed later clarified that he would support Harris over Donald Trump in the general election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n El-Sayed has been especially critical of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. On Oct. 21, 2023, two weeks after the Hamas-led slaughter of 1,200 people and kidnapping of 251 hostages in southern Israel, the progressive politician\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0Israel of \u201cgenocide.\u201d The comment came before the Israeli military launched its ground campaign in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n He also compared Israel\u2019s defensive military operations to the Hamas terrorist group\u2019s conduct on Oct. 7, writing, \u201cYou can both condemn Hamas terrorism AND Israel\u2019s murder since.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In comments to\u00a0Politico,\u00a0<\/i>El-Sayed criticized Democrats\u2019 handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, arguing that they should become the \u201cparty of peace and justice\u201d and said that they \u201cought not to be the party sending bombs and money to foreign militaries to drop bombs on other people\u2019s kids in their schools and their hospitals.\u201d He called on Democrats to stop supporting military aid for Israel, saying, \u201cWe should be spending that money here at home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Recent polling has shown El-Sayed trailing both McMorrow and Democratic primary frontrunner US Rep. Haley Stevens among voters.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Anti-Israel Michigan Senate Candidate Promoted Group Behind Holocaust Memorial Protests Corey Walker Former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat now running for US Senate in Michigan, speaks at a \u201cHands Off\u201d protest at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 5, 2025. 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Former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat now running for US Senate in Michigan, speaks at a \u201cHands Off\u201d protest at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 5, 2025. Photo: Andrew Roth\/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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