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Senate candidate: Statement condemning synagogue attack was a 'risk' that worried his team.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed acknowledged on an internal campaign call that his lengthy statement after the Temple Israel attack this month was a “risk” that “really worried” his team.
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“We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel, and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away,” El-Sayed continued.
“It was a risk,” El-Sayed said. “All of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is being willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true that nobody else is going to say.”
An El-Sayed aide said the issue is a complicated one in Michigan, which has significant Muslim and Arab-American communities. El-Sayed has also been highly critical of Israel’s long military campaign in Gaza. “We understood that putting out a nuanced statement opened the door for bad-faith critiques, but decided that it was important to give voice to the complexities that so many Michiganders are trying to navigate,” El-Sayed spokesperson Roxie Richner said in a statement.
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“We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel, and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away,” El-Sayed continued.
“It was a risk,” El-Sayed said. “All of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is being willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true that nobody else is going to say.”
An El-Sayed aide said the issue is a complicated one in Michigan, which has significant Muslim and Arab-American communities. El-Sayed has also been highly critical of Israel’s long military campaign in Gaza. “We understood that putting out a nuanced statement opened the door for bad-faith critiques, but decided that it was important to give voice to the complexities that so many Michiganders are trying to navigate,” El-Sayed spokesperson Roxie Richner said in a statement.
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/el-sayed-statement/