In a shocking announcement that will no doubt make steam blow out of liberal ears across Michigan, state Rep. Noah Arbit said he will not be throwing his support behind Abdul El-Sayed, the current Democratic Party nominee for a U.S. Senate race in the Great Lakes State. Arbit, 31, confirmed that he would not be endorsing El-Sayed during an interview with a publication called “Jewish Insider” that was published on September 30, 2026.
When asked why he wouldn’t back the nominee, Arbit cited El-Sayed’s consistent promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and affiliations with individuals who belong to the far left as reasons for his decision not to support him in the general election. El-Sayed will face off against former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, for the Senate seat in November.
“At the very least,” El-Sayed “aligns himself with people who want to purge the Democratic Party and American life of Zionists and, therefore, most Jews,” Arbit explained. “That is unacceptable.” Later, he was asked if he considers El-Sayed antisemitic. Arbit then made a reference to a speech that he gave on the Michigan House floor just a week ago.
In that speech, he made the case that the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish prejudice had grown more narrower. According to a report from Trending Politics News, he then stated in the interview that defining antisemitism as just hating Jews is too limited because hating Jews is not required to advance “conspiracy theories.”
He later identified the center of El-Sayed’s primary campaign as being built around an antisemitic claim that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was the main issue when it came to creating universal health care, better schools and all kinds of other things. Arbit had a lot to say on this topic as well, sparing no one.
“It’s just a dog whistle. It is a neat, clever argument. You take an unpopular policy and you say this is the reason why you don’t have nice things. It is the demagogue’s oldest trick in the book,” Arbit went on to say. During the interview, Arbit refused to divulge who he would be voting for come November, though he described both El-Sayed and Rogers as “unacceptable options for Michigan” who, according to him, “threaten” his constituents.
Following the August 4 primary, the congressman revealed that he sat down for a conversation with El-Sayed, taking an opportunity to explain his own definition of Zionism, which he connected to minority safety under democracy and clear support for a two-state outcome between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East.
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On September 29, Arbit partnered with Nonnegotiable Michigan, a Democratic Party organization that featured members asking El-Sayed to confirm his commitment to the safety of Zionist Jews, Jewish self-definition, Jewish sovereignty in Israel, and full Jewish participation in American politics. According to the group, El-Sayed did not meet those requirements. U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids also said she would not be supporting El-Sayed, citing his associations with controversial figure Hasan Piker.
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