MSNOW: What is your message now to Jewish voters nationally and what you will do to protect them? Abdul El-Sayed: I’m committed to Jewish safety, and we are united against discrimination. The U.S. spends billions to carry out genocide and apartheid against Palestinians. The genocide in Gaza with our complicity is continuing right now. Nobody wants to talk about that.
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In his 60 Minutes interview broadcast two nights before the election, el-Sayed refused to state definitively whether Israel "right to exist". Ross Douthat could have added ".... as a Jewish state" but even without that clarification, the then-candidate remained cryptic, appearing to suggest that Israel could exist if Palestinians approve. You the reader have a right to your safety as long as the mugger approves.
In the above video, Senator-elect Abdul el-Sayed is permitted by Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough to go on and on with feel-good rhetoric. However, at 2:23, he states "We have to separate between Judaism and the Jewish people, and Israel and its actions.
El-Sayed's comments on Morning Joe were verbal and not written, so it is impossible to detrmine if I added the punctuation- a comma between "people" and "Israel" accurately reflects el-Sayed's meaning. However, as he stated it- and considering prior comments- it appears the Senator-elect was equating Judaism and the Jewish people; and Israel and its actions. Jews are fine, he is likely saying- but Israel is not.
For those of us old enough to remember, this should remind us of a famous headline from the (New York) Daily News of October 29, 1975:
Of course, Gerald Ford was President and his sentiment thus was far more significant than that of the incoming senator Abdul el-Sayed. Different jurisdiction, different time, same sentiment.
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