Abdul el Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, told ABC News on Monday that “it’s time for us to realize that Israel is actually not our friend,” comparing the Jewish state to a kid who keeps “bumming off” your child’s money and dragging him into fights. Days earlier, he assured Jewish voters that whatever their “differences” on Israel, “the things that unite us are a lot bigger.”
So, who makes el Sayed’s friends list? Yep, Hasan Piker, the “streamer” who said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than Israel and who horrifically told Axios last month the Middle East “would be more stable” if Iran got a nuclear weapon, headlined el Sayed’s campus rallies in April and stumped with him again in August.
Last week, Piker explained why the Democrats’ lead among New York’s Jewish voters fell from 49 points in 2022 to 13 this year: “it’s just Israel!” Never mind the assaults on our streets, or Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s antisemitism plan, which, as more than 25 Jewish groups pointed out, “explicitly declines to adopt a definition of antisemitism” and, as I wrote in JNS, purposely excludes Zionist Jews as a protected group.
The Republican Jewish Coalition’s Sam Markstein called Piker’s take “the oldest antisemitic trope of dual loyalty.” It’s the oldest play in the most grotesque of books: When things go wrong, find the Jews. Piker ran it in August too, warning that if American Jews keep saying they’re “singularly invested in Israel,” someone will eventually “take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” a line even el Sayed felt obliged to distance himself from. Not that he doesn’t believe it.
El Sayed also claims the government of Israel “has done nothing but use us,” and at an Oct. 8 debate repeatedly refused to say whether Iran or Israel is the “greater threat to the United States,” calling it a “ridiculous question” and saying “both of them have proven dangerous in their own way.” Our security services know better.
In 2017, an Israeli spy inside ISIS exposed a plot to bring down a U.S.-bound passenger jet with a bomb hidden in a laptop. In 2018, Mossad agents spirited about 50,000 pages of Iran’s nuclear archive out of Tehran. This summer, Israel warned Washington of Iranian plots to kill President Donald Trump, including a possible missile strike on Air Force One at the NATO summit in Ankara. The CIA reportedly had low confidence in that tip, and Washington took no chances anyway, sneaking Trump to another plane.
No other ally gives America a front-line democracy whose intelligence on Iran Washington has long relied on heavily and whose combat-proven trophy system shields Army Abrams tank crews from anti-tank missiles.
If Israel only wants to drag us into its wars, el Sayed should explain why the same Islamists are already at war with Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s own government warned last year that the Muslim Brotherhood is working to infiltrate France’s schools, mosques and local institutions. In Britain, a Syrian-born attacker rammed and stabbed worshippers outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur last year, then phoned police boasting he had “killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State.” A 2009 Civitas study counted at least 85 sharia courts there. A Syrian migrant later convicted of ISIS membership stabbed three people to death at a festival in Solingen, Germany, and a self-described Islamic State member who had sought asylum in Belgium gunned down two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels.
Most Muslim immigrants want no part of this, but mass migration has also carried in members and admirers of the very movements Israel is fighting, and, have no doubt about it, they see every free Western country as the enemy.
No U.S. politician should see anyone in this movement as a “friend.”
America has bled, too. An ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 14 people on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day 2025. Sayfullo Saipov murdered eight on a Manhattan bike path in ISIS’s name in 2017. And in March, a Lebanese-born man whose brother was a Hezbollah commander rammed his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with young children in daycare inside. Asked about it at a rally, el Sayed said “hurt people hurt people,” with Piker nodding along beside him (el Sayed later apologized to a Jewish group).
Whether Macron realizes it or not, Israel is fighting these jihadis, from Hamas and Hezbollah to the regime in Tehran, virtually alone, in a war that protects his civilization, too, regardless of his cruelty to them.
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When Iran fired some 550 missiles and more than 2,200 drones at the United Arab Emirates this year, Israel sent an Iron Dome battery and dozens of soldiers to defend it. “It was a real eye-opening moment,” an Emirati official said. “To see who our real friends are.”
The Emiratis learned under fire what Macron, Britain and the rest of the free world need to learn now that our friend in this fight is Israel, and that el Sayed, Piker, Mamdani and Hamas stand on the other side of it.
Jeffrey Lax is a professor of law at the City University of New York and the founder of S.A.F.E. Campus. He holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a master’s degree from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Lax is a frequent legal and political commentator on Fox News, Newsmax, and other major media outlets and is active on X at @CUNY_Prof.
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