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Michigan Democrat who lost Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed takes aim at Bernie Sanders over Israel stance
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In Short: Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., told Fox News Abdul El-Sayed should ‘distance himself’ from Hasan Piker as voters headed to the polls for Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., told Fox News Abdul El-Sayed should ‘distance himself’ from Hasan Piker as voters headed to the polls for Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.
Asked whether El-Sayed had said or done anything other than winning the Democratic nomination to earn the support and assuage the concerns of groups that voted for Haley Stevens, such as Jewish voters, Black voters or Reagan-era Democrats, Haley Stevens pointed to her own good performance with those demographics, identifying herself as a Zionist Democrat and asserting that her party had room for all those communities.
Sanders has repeatedly called to end U.S. military aid to Israel and has been outspoken in his criticism of the Israeli government.
During a Thursday livestream, Piker called “the idea that Jews are monolithic” in their support of Israel “a very dangerous mode of propaganda.”“If Jews in America keep putting this — this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” he continued.
The results of the survey, by NBC News, come amid sharp political debates among Democrats over support for Israel 2½ years after the start of the war between Israelis and Hamas in Gaza.
Americans' opinions on Israel have soured, according to a poll from March, largely due to Democrats and independents.
However, she urged the Democratic Senate candidate to cut ties with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, with whom El-Sayed has campaigned.
"I really don’t know what Bernie Sanders has done for peace in the Middle East, for Palestinian dignity; I can’t think of anything he’s totally done. It’s a sickness that needs to end. You know, it’s a linkage towards extremism or jihad, I don’t know," she said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
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- "It certainly makes sense to get rid of this Hasan Piker affiliation," she said during an interview with Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing" in August, also asserting that the Democratic plans for healthcare, democracy and Black-owned businesses are better than those of El-Sayed's Republican opponent Mike Rogers.