Abdul El-Sayed’s defeated rival in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, criticized his statements on Israel and called on him to condemn an ad two days before they were scheduled to appear together at a Detroit church.
Rebellion PAC’s digital ad showed a couple shopping in the grocery store concerned about prices. The woman tells the man to not buy eggs because “we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”
The end of the ad states that former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, “is for they/them” and shows a photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies. The ad says, “Abdul El-Sayed is for you.”
Cenk Uygur, the founder of the left-wing political action committee and co-creator of the media company The Young Turks, first ran a version of the ad in 2024 when he ran for president. He told PolitiFact that the PAC has spent $1,000 on the current digital ad and it has not run on TV, other than in news coverage.
Stevens said in an Oct.…