Democrat Running for Senate Draws Outrage for ‘Unbelievably Tone Deaf’ 10/7 Fundraising Email

Sarah Rumpf Oct 7th, 2025, 6:33 pm

Screenshot via Abdul El-Sayed Facebook.

Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, sent out a fundraising email commemorating Oct. 7, 2023 that drew sharp condemnation for “completely ignoring” the Israelis killed by Hamas on that day.

El-Sayed, 40, was born and raised in the Detroit area to Egyptian immigrant parents who were both engineers, and is a former public health professor and former director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan. El-Sayed earned his medical degree from Columbia University but did not complete a residency, choosing to pursue a career in public service instead, a

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