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Abdul El-Sayed’s 60 Minutes interview broadcast on Sunday summed up his antisemitism in under thirty seconds. Asked if Palestine has a right to exist, he said yes. Asked if Israel has a right to exist, he said yes — if there is a shared understanding. In other words, no. El-Sayed gave an unconditional answer for one side and a conditional one for the other. That’s not a neutral position on two states. It’s a position that treats Israel’s legitimacy as negotiable while treating Palestine’s as settled. The same pattern has shown up throughout his campaign: the “hurt people hurt people” framing after the Temple Israel attack, the repeated reluctance to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and the ongoing association with figures who traffic in the same double standard. El-Sayed’s antisemitic segment aired Sunday, but he originally made the remarks on October 22 during his 60 Minutes interview in Detroit. It’s pertinent now considering El-Sayed was dropped by Rep. Haley Stevens on Sunday in part because of his antisemitism, and because one of his supporters on Sunday committed an antisemitic violent hate crime attack against a Jewish woman at the University of Michigan. When you’ve got a candidate like El-Sayed who preaches hate against Jews and who can’t clearly say Jews have a right to their homeland of Israel, that candidate is inciting hate and violence. El-Sayed knows what he’s doing. He needs to be condemned and rejected by the entire Democrat Party. Democrats and Republicans can disagree about taxes, regulations, and investments. But what we can’t disagree on is that antisemitism needs to be stopped completely. What happened during World War II started with tolerance of the same kind of antisemitism that El-Sayed is promoting. It can’t be allowed an inch of acceptance. The attack we saw Sunday against a Jewish woman at the University of Michigan by an El-Sayed supporter is a clear reminder that El-Sayed and the antisemitism growing within the Democrat Party can’t be allowed any power. History’s already told us where that leads. To be clear, it’s not just El-Sayed who has made hating Jews a primary theme of his platform. So have AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Mamdani, and others. Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and other Democrat leaders have disgracefully tolerated their antisemitism. To be fair, some congressional Democrats have spoken out against the antisemites in their party, but those voices are becoming more of a minority. The Democrat Party needs to expel its antisemitic voices and not let ones like El-Sayed gain a seat in Congress. There’s no negotiating with anyone who says Jews don’t have a right to Israel existing. El-Sayed is unacceptable. As is any politician who shares in his hate.