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The actual text of the statement is even more insane than the tweet. She is demanding he apologize for tying high prices to our support for Israel. This is a condemnation and list of grievances rather than an endorsement. Read it here: “For days, Abdul's only answer to the Rebellion PAC advertisement produced by Hasan Piker's uncle, Cenk Uygur, was that his campaign was 'not affiliated' with it. That ad tells Michigan families they cannot afford groceries because their money has to be set aside 'for killing Palestinians, and it blames our close ally Israel for everything Michiganders cannot afford. The chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League called it 'a case study in antisemitism! A disclaimer is not a condemnation, and everyone in my community knows the difference. I have learned from Democratic Party leaders and emissaries, as reported in the news media, that Dr. El-Sayed has heard the deep concerns of the Jewish community and is now, for the first time in this campaign, formally condemning that ad for what it is. That is why I accepted Congressman Clyburn's invitation to appear with Abdul on Sunday. I urge voters and the press to confirm it with Abdul directly. "But the ad did not invent its argument; it dramatized one Dr. El-Sayed has made in his own words throughout this campaign: that Israel is the reason Michigan cannot afford schools, health care, and child care. The standard here is simple. If those words are wrong when a Political Action Committee supporting his campaign says them, then they are equally wrong when Abdul says them, and Abdul has said them from the start. I therefore expect him to apologize for those statements as well. Abdul promises to get money out of politics. He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford. And it is my hope and expectation that, out of the same respect for Michigan's Black community, he will take down his own advertisement featuring white Christian nationalist Tucker Carlson, an insult to the congregation that will welcome us on Sunday. "I say this with no race to run and nothing to gain. The Jewish and African American communities of my district deserve to see their leaders show up for them rather than fight over them. Jim Clyburn has spent his life showing what that looks like. I am honored to go to church with him."

This is genuinely psychotic and I’m really tired of people treating active mania as a legitimate political position.

I need El-Sayed to win, not because I think dems are going to do a single meaningful thing with a senate majority (they won’t) but because I do not want anything to validate the idea that Muslims and Arabs cannot hold high office, or that going against Israel is unpopular and even bigoted. The absolute worst people on earth have spent months in both parties ginning up racialized hysteria in order to protect a genocidal rape colony and they deserve to be roundly rejected and humiliated as often as possible.