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August 27, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed’s AIPAC Hypocrisy

The Democrats taking money from a Hamas front organization.

Anti-Israel Democrats’ new favorite accusation against their opponents is that they have taken money from AIPAC (or simply from pro-Israel donors), a claim that relies on misrepresenting entirely the role of campaign donations in American politics. Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon recently reported that the Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed received a $175,000 campaign contribution from the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Such donations are completely above board, but, as Kyle Orton details, CAIR happens to be an American front for Hamas masquerading as a civil-rights group:

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