“We’re paying $5 gas.
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We → pay → gas
We’re paying more for groceries because of a war we should not be fighting, at the behest of whom?
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we → pay → whom
That’s a quote from Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in a tight Michigan race against Republican Mike Rogers.
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That → ’ → Rogers
Compare that quote to the ad made in support of El-Sayed that everyone agrees is overtly antisemitic.
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everyone → compare → Sayed
El-Sayed won’t denounce the ad, but his defenders insist he can’t be blamed for it.
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he → denounce → 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.
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everyone → provide → statements
The ad depicts a couple in a grocery store doing their food shopping.
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ad → depict → shopping
The wife tells her partner he has to put the eggs back because they can’t afford them.
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they → tell → them
“We have to set that seven dollars aside for killing Palestinians,” she says.
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she → have → Palestinians
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.”
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American → whine → Gaza
The couple then moan that Americans are also paying for Israeli universal health care.
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Americans → moan → care
“Might as well put the bananas back,” the woman grumbles.
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woman → put → bananas
But the lies are almost beside the point of an ad that would make the Nazis blush.
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Nazis → make → ad
The real point is to plant the idea that Americans are going hungry because of the Jews.
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Americans → plant → Jews
The video isn’t new — what’s new is the addition of the names of the Michigan Senate contenders.
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’s → ’ → 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).
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who → put → Piker
But the idea undergirding the ad is El-Sayed’s.
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Sayed → undergird → ad
So let’s just be clear: If the ad is indefensible, so is he.
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he → let → ?
Here’s another example.
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example → ’ → ?
In August, the writer Anand Giridharadas interviewed El-Sayed and asked the Michigan Democrat about his obsession with connecting Israel to local issues.
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writer → interview → issues
Here’s how El-Sayed responded:
“Israel is an affordability issue.
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Israel → ’ → ?
Every time you want to put glasses on kids’ faces or give people health care or fix a school, somebody pops up and is like, Well, how are you going to pay for that?
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you → want → that
“I don’t know.
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I → know → ?
Maybe we should keep our money here instead of sending it there to drop bombs on people’s schools or their hospitals.
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we → keep → schools
“That’s our money.
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That → ’ → ?
You just saw $3.3 billion voted to send abroad to a foreign government that, by the way, has guaranteed health care and can guarantee college education without debt.
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that → see → debt
“And you want to send my money over there?
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you → want → money
That’s insane.”
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That → ’ → ?
El-Sayed says Michiganders can’t afford basic services because that money is being spent by Israel “to drop bombs.”
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money → say → bombs
Israel, he complains — just like the complaining couple in the Jew-baiting ad — “has guaranteed health care.”
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he → complain → care
It’s therefore “insane,” El-Sayed says, that “you want to send my money over there.”
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you → ’ → money
El-Sayed has been saying some form of this all through the campaign.
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Sayed → say → campaign
It’s basically his only idea.
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It → ’ → ?
Every bumper-sticker line you hear from El-Sayed is a version of this grocery ad.
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you → hear → ad
He’s not the only Democrat angrily spitting this propaganda, of course.
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He → ’ → course
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a New York Democratic House nominee, blamed the Jewish state for gentrification.
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Chevalier → blame → gentrification
New York Assembly candidate Lydia Green said, “The more we’re spending on genocide and displacement of Palestinians, the less we’re spending on housing, feeding and caring for New Yorkers.”
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we → say → Yorkers
Does it require an astonishing level of innumeracy and economic ignorance to believe that when the US gives Israel vouchers to buy weapons from American manufacturers — thus expanding American jobs and American manufacturing — it’s somehow taking eggs and bananas out of the mouths of theoretical Abdul El-Sayed voters?
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it → require → voters
Yes, it does.
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it → do → ?
That’s why no one believes it.
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one → ’ → it
…and 1 more, not listed.
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