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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who faces growing opposition from Jewish Democrats, quietly attended a banquet Wednesday night for an Arab-American lobbying group led by Osama Siblani, a notorious Dearborn-based activist who said that Arabs should send Israeli Jews “back to Poland,” that Israel’s actions in Gaza are “worse than the Holocaust,” and that Hamas and Hezbollah are “freedom fighters.”
The Arab American Political Action Committee, which aims to “lobby on behalf of the Arab American political causes,” held the event, dubbed “Saving Our Democracy,” in Dearborn Wednesday evening for El-Sayed, gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, and attorney general candidate Eli Slavit.
Photos from the banquet show El-Sayed huddled with Siblani and posing with community leaders and other attendees. Benson and Slavit posted photos from the soirée, though El-Sayed has yet to do so.
El-Sayed attended the function even as he faces intense scrutiny over his cozy relationship with Siblani, the publisher of the Arab American News, and growing criticism from Jewish Democrats upset at the candidate’s demonization of Israel.
Republican Mike Rogers hammered El-Sayed after the Washington Free Beacon reported the far-left Democrat attended a roundtable discussion at Siblani’s office last week. During the discussion, Siblani asked El-Sayed to “soothe” over voters in Dearborn, some of whom are upset over what they believe is El-Sayed’s softening position towards Israel. El-Sayed has campaigned with former vice president Kamala Harris, whom many on the far left accuse of enabling Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
El-Sayed took shots at AIPAC during the interview, saying he was “unwilling to take orders” from the pro-Israel advocacy group. That prompted Siblani to clarify that El-Sayed was not referring to AAPAC, his Arab-American lobbying organization.
“Let’s make sure that’s AIPAC with an ‘I,’ not AAPAC,” said Siblani.
“Yes, not the Arab American [PAC],” said El-Sayed.
Siblani lashed out at Rogers and the Free Beacon—which he dubbed the “Trash Beacon”—over the report, which detailed his lengthy history of support for terrorist groups and demonization of Israel and Jews.
Siblani, who headlined a fundraiser for El-Sayed in Dearborn last month, is an unapologetic defender of Hamas and Hezbollah, referring repeatedly to the groups as “freedom fighters” against Israel. In a 2006 video, Siblani insisted they were not terrorist groups. He also said that Israel’s so-called genocide in Gaza was “worse than the Holocaust,” in which Nazis systematically murdered 6 million Jews.
Siblani, who has held multiple fundraisers for El-Sayed during the campaign, said in an interview on Lebanese television last year that “the most important thing” he has done in his life was praise Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah as a “hero” during a rally in Dearborn in September 2024, days before Israel assassinated him in Lebanon.
At that same rally, Siblani said that Arabs would emerge victorious over Israel and send Israelis “back to Poland.”
The Nazis operated all of their death camps in German-occupied Poland and transported millions of Jews there to be murdered during the Holocaust.
Siblani’s inflammatory remarks have drawn rebuke from Jewish groups, a minority of Dearborn residents, and from Rep. Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost to El-Sayed in the Democratic primary in August. Stevens condemned Siblani last year over his remarks at the Dearborn rally and said she would “not condone or associate” with the newspaper publisher. Jewish leaders blasted the Biden-Harris administration in 2024 for visiting Siblani at his Dearborn offices in order to improve support among Muslims and Arabs.
Last year, Dearborn resident Ted Barham, a local pastor, voiced opposition at a city hall meeting over a plan to rename a Dearborn street after Siblani, citing his support for terrorist groups. Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a close ally of El-Sayed and Siblani, shouted down Barham as a “racist” and said he was “not welcome” to live in the city.
Barham excoriated El-Sayed for appearing alongside Siblani.
“The fact that Abdul El-Sayed has been holding so many events in Dearborn and with Mr. Siblani shows how representative El-Sayed is of the Dearborn, Hezbollah, and Siblani mentality,” he told the Free Beacon.
Siblani has bragged that in 2021, he refused to denounce Hamas during a conference call with the Biden administration officials. At a rally in 2022, he urged Arabs in Michigan and elsewhere to “fight within [their] means” against Israel, whether it be with “stones,” “guns,” or “their hands.” He sang the praises of the “fedayeen”—Islamic militants—for “striking [Israel] with knives and with their bare hands.”
El-Sayed’s courtship of Siblani comes as more Jewish Democrats have come out against the candidate over his remarks about Israel and his alliances with Israel-haters. El-Sayed recently equated Israel with Iran and declined to acknowledge that Israel is an ally of the United States. Stevens’s fiancé, a Jewish Democrat, said Wednesday that he will vote for Rogers over El-Sayed because El-Sayed has “escalated” his anti-Israel rhetoric and made Jews “less safe.”
This week, El-Sayed ally Cenk Uygur, the uncle of El-Sayed’s friend Hasan Piker, released a campaign ad that blamed high banana prices on U.S. support for Israel, stoking allegations of antisemitism from many Democrats, including El-Sayed allies. El-Sayed, who has voiced a similar argument blaming Israel for high grocery prices, has not denounced the ad.
El-Sayed’s campaign declined to comment.
Siblani declined to speak with the Free Beacon.
“I won’t respond to your stupid and racist questions,” he said. “So, I suggest you go ahead and continue spewing venom for as long as you want.”
“No further discussion with racists and agitators,” he went on.
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The Obama administration “found evidence suggesting” that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother, the New York Times revealed on Thursday.
Imagine that!
Federal agents opened an investigation in 2016, the Times reported, and found reason to believe that Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who obtained a provisional green card following their marriage in 2009, were siblings. Prosecutors declined to pursue the matter because the alleged crime—federal marriage fraud—fell outside the statute of limitations.
In a dramatic reversal based on the Times’s past coverage of allegations, the esteemed publication conceded that “Several aspects of [Omar’s] marriage to Mr. Elmi have long been murky.” For example, the happy couple’s marriage certificate was signed by a Christian minister rather than a Muslim imam—a curious detail that neither Omar nor the minister, Wilecia Harris, has publicly explained.
This will no doubt come as a shock to loyal Times readers, who were repeatedly assured that Omar did nothing wrong. Following her election to Congress in 2018, the Times ran a glowing profile casting Omar as a bullied Muslim refugee with a “soft voice,” “delicate features,” and a “uniquely American” life story who has come to regard her adopted country as a cesspool of racist cruelty. Running for office, the Times lamented, had “forced Ms. Omar to make public details about her complicated private life, which became fodder for conservative bloggers, who seized on her brief marriage to a British citizen.”
Months later, the Times published what it claimed was a “fact check” of President Donald Trump’s numerous “attacks” on the historic Muslim congresswoman, including the allegation that she married her brother. “Rumors … have been circulating since 2016,” the Times explained. “No proof has emerged substantiating these claims.”
The lazy and dismissive fact check, which relied almost exclusively on Omar’s public denials, declined to acknowledge any “murky” aspects of the marriage. It included multiple links to an equally dismissive Associated Press fact check based on some actual reporting. Despite reviewing Omar’s marriage records, the AP declined to mention the bizarre detail about the Christian minister’s signature. Neither did the Times, obviously.
Until 2026, when the Times proved that even journalists are capable of doing their jobs checking their own facts and pursuing stories under the assumption that politicians—even Democrats—are capable of lying. It’s almost as if the absence of “proof” in this case was directly related to mainstream media’s complete lack of interest in finding it.
Oh, and in case you were wondering: Omar’s brother, who fled the country around 2012 after immigration officials started asking questions about his marriage, is currently a doctoral student in the United Kingdom “writing a thesis about Kenya’s L.G.B.T. community.”
READ MORE: Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
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Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Jordan Klepper, was the only one of the late night comedy hosts to discuss the Wednesday report from The New York Times that Alaska Democrats did, in fact, recruit a random guy named Dan Sullivan to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in order to confuse voters in the state’s ranked choice voting system.  Klepper admitted to not being a fan of the move but also claimed it was “the kind of shit that Mitch McConnell” would pull even though McConnell never did any such thing.Klepper introduced a clip of CNN’s Dana Bash by sarcastically declaring, “Just because there’s a guy running with the same name as a Republican senator doesn’t mean the Democrats recruited him to confuse voters.”  After the clip of Bash confirming that is exactly what happened, Klepper continued, “Holy shit! It was the Democrats! That is dirty as [bleep]! I mean, that’s the kind of shit that Mitch McConnell would come up with back before he was 90 percent minivan. So tell me more. Tell me more about this devious scheme.”Following some more news clips, Klepper continued, “Wow, Democrats! Democrats, instead of devoting their energy to coming up with an effective platform that attracts voters, they said, ‘[bleep] It, let’s just scour the Arctic looking for Dans.’ They’re out there defrosting cavemen from glaciers like, ‘Is your name Dan? Is your name Dan?’”Later, Klepper concluded by alluding to a story he talked about earlier involving a GOP congressional candidate blaming his unsolicited nude photo scandal on a “youthful indiscretion,” despite being 53 at the time, “Now, look, I will say, if you ask me, this is bad news and not how our election should work. Democracy should be won on a battle of ideas, not on trying to trick voters. But you know what? Maybe we do have to cut Mary Peltola some slack. She is only 53 years old. Let’s chalk this up to a youthful indiscretion.”It is nice that Klepper was able to condemn the move, which is more than the other comedy shows have managed to do, but the idea it is comparable to anything Mitch McConnell ever did is ridiculous. McConnell once refused to allow a vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court and then eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations after Democrats previously eliminated it for lower-level judicial nominees. Alaska Democrats tried to pass off a No Kings liberal protestor as a Republican. These are not the same.Here is a transcript for the October 28 show:Comedy Central The Daily Show10/28/202611:06 PM ETJORDAN KLEPPER: Just because there’s a guy running with the same name as a Republican senator doesn’t mean the Democrats recruited him to confuse voters.DANA BASH: The New York Times is reporting that it was, in fact, Democrats who recruited the other Dan Sullivan into that Senate race.KLEPPER: Holy shit! It was the Democrats! That is dirty as [bleep]! I mean, that’s the kind of shit that Mitch McConnell would come up with back before he was 90 percent minivan. So tell me more. Tell me more about this devious scheme.BASH: A Peltola staffer “received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.”REPORTER: According to The Times, the campaign found their man in, quote, “A tiny fishing village along the Alaska panhandle, reachable only by air and sea.”KLEPPER: Wow, Democrats! Democrats, instead of devoting their energy to coming up with an effective platform that attracts voters, they said, “[bleep] It, let’s just scour the Arctic looking for Dans.” They’re out there defrosting cavemen from glaciers like, “Is your name Dan? Is your name Dan?”…KLEPPER: Now, look, I will say, if you ask me, this is bad news and not how our election should work. Democracy should be won on a battle of ideas, not on trying to trick voters. But you know what? Maybe we do have to cut Mary Peltola some slack. She is only 53 years old. Let’s chalk this up to a youthful indiscretion.