by Melanie Phillips
Anti-Zionism and hatred of Israel are the Trojan horse for Islamisation
The significance of the victory by Abdul El Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary goes far beyond the particulars of the result. It’s a chilling indicator of the suicidal lurch of progressive politics, which has weaponised anti-Zionism and hatred of Israel to destroy America and the West.
El-Sayed beat the moderate, Israel supporter Haley Stevens to become the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat in the November mid-term elections.
He wants a total US military embargo on the “evil” State of Israel, which he believes is guilty of “apartheid” and “genocide” and shouldn’t exist.
He channels ancient anti-Jewish libels of sinister Jewish power and a Jewish thirst for human blood. He taunted his opponent for being massively funded by AIPAC; he said on the cable-TV show “Morning Joe” that the Jewish state was “bloodthirsty” and an “illegal apartheid regime”.
While ostensibly condemning the Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack in March at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., he effectively justified it by asserting “hurt people hurt people,” meaning that the attack was in response to Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon that reportedly killed members of the attacker’s family.
And his campaign was heavily backed by Hasan Piker, the Turkish-American influencer who praises Hamas, said America had what was coming to it on 9/11 and calls upon his followers to kill capitalists.