一封公开信呼吁犹太选民支持罗杰斯，而非阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德——后者始终拒绝承认以色列的生存权
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密歇根拉比与民主党决裂，转而支持共和党候选人迈克·罗杰斯：埃尔-赛义德将是一场“灾难”
密歇根拉比告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，犹太民主党人正倒向共和党候选人：“这场运动正日益壮大。”
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底特律——两年前，共和党人迈克·罗杰斯在竞争激烈的密歇根州联邦参议员选举中仅以2万票差距落败，如今这位二度参选参议员的候选人正呼吁包括犹太选民在内的民主党人跨党派投票支持他。
此前民主党参议院初选战况激烈、分歧严重，阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德以微弱优势击败更为温和的候选人海莉·史蒂文斯获得提名。如今罗杰斯正大力争取对左翼提名候选人不满的民主党人，以期在中期选举中拿下这个民主党必须守住的席位。
罗杰斯竞选宣传的核心目标之一是犹太民主党选民，他们对埃尔-赛义德尖锐批评以色列对哈马斯在加沙的战争感到不安，同时对埃尔-赛义德与有争议的网络主播哈桑·皮克的交往感到愤怒——皮克曾在其庞大的在线受众面前多次抨击以色列。
“我通常会投民主党，但这次我会把票投给迈克·罗杰斯，”阿舍·洛帕廷拉比本周站在罗杰斯身边说道。这位前国会议员、前联邦调查局特工当天在底特律西区的一场竞选活动中宣布成立“民主党人支持迈克”联盟。
从未投过共和党人的民主党人正支持这位共和党参议员候选人
前众议员迈克·罗杰斯，密歇根州共和党参议院候选人，于2026年8月20日在底特律宣布获得民主党人支持，成立“民主党人支持迈克”联盟。（保罗·斯坦豪泽/福克斯新闻）
埃尔-赛义德曾担任韦恩县卫生局局长，如果在11月当选，他将成为美国历史上首位穆斯林参议员。这位流行病学家曾在2018年以激进候选人身份竞选州长但失败，他将支持“全民医保”作为竞选的核心议题之一，同时呼吁废除美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）。
但正是埃尔-赛义德在以色列问题上的立场和言论冒犯了密歇根州的一些犹太民众，该州同时拥有庞大的阿拉伯和穆斯林人口。
本月在MS NOW的一次采访中，埃尔-赛义德用“嗜血”形容以色列在加沙的军事行动，并指责以色列领导层对巴勒斯坦人实施种族灭绝。他与其他进步派政客一样，反对无条件向以色列提供美国军事援助。此外，埃尔-赛义德多次拒绝直接回答以色列是否有生存权的问题。
但埃尔-赛义德也曾表示，他“声援我的犹太兄弟姐妹”，以“谴责反犹太主义”。
洛帕廷是底特律郊区的一名拉比，曾前往中东地区寻求以色列与其阿拉伯邻国之间的和平。他认为，埃尔-赛义德“通过将恶毒的反犹太主义者、种族主义者哈桑·皮克作为竞选代理人并与其称兄道弟，表现出对犹太社区的蔑视，坦率地说，也蔑视美国价值观”。
皮克曾在初选中支持埃尔-赛义德，出席了这位候选人的多场竞选活动，包括底特律的初选之夜派对。皮克多次为自己批评以色列的言论辩护，他还在初选前夕与埃尔-赛义德一同出现在底特律的一场派对上。
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“我对特朗普政府的诸多政策有很多不满，”洛帕廷告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“但更重要的是，我们必须表明立场，绝不能让阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德这样的人进入参议院。”
洛帕廷表示，“通常会投民主党票的犹太选民正打算把票投给迈克·罗杰斯，我确实听到了这样的声音。这场运动正日益壮大。我认为，当他们更多地了解罗杰斯……就会更放心地投票给共和党，有时这会是他们人生中第一次这么做。”
来自底特律郊区的犹太选民斯泰西（仅愿透露其名）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，她也会把票投给罗杰斯。
“对我们这些温和派来说，民主党已经太过左倾了，”曾在参议院初选中支持史蒂文斯的斯泰西强调道。
当被具体问及本党提名候选人时，斯泰西说：“阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的竞选活动一直在把所有犹太人当作攻击目标。”
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密歇根州的一些犹太领导人正在传阅一封公开信，呼吁该大湖摇摆州的犹太民主党人和无党派人士签名支持罗杰斯。这一消息本周由《犹太内幕》率先报道，并由福克斯新闻数字频道证实。
“这有点像生死攸关的时刻，”参与撰写这封公开信的一名不愿具名人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“许多终身民主党人都觉得自己无家可归……这不仅仅是向左翼漂移，还演变成了反犹太主义的漂移。”
但密歇根民主党犹太核心小组 endorsement 主席琼·洛温斯坦并不认可这封信，她告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，其所在组织将保持距离。
“我们是密歇根民主党的一部分，不会倡导任何人投票给共和党，”她说。
但同时也是密歇根民主党中央委员会成员的洛温斯坦表示，这封信的发起者“对此充满热情，认为这是一个生死攸关的问题，我想这代表了很多人的想法。所以他们必须做他们必须做的事。
“这有点五五开。我接触到的一半人说，‘我永远不会因为阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在以色列问题上的言论，以及因此对犹太社区的言论而投票给他。另外50%的人则说，‘作为美国人，犹太人拥有民主党参议员席位至关重要，所以我永远不会投票给迈克·罗杰斯。’”
罗杰斯和埃尔-赛义德将角逐即将退休的民主党参议员加里·彼得斯留下的席位。这场选举是将决定民主党能否从共和党手中夺回参议院多数席位的十二场关键选举之一。
罗杰斯在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时重申，他并非要求民主党选民转而成为共和党人。他强调了自己从密歇根州犹太民主党选民那里听到的担忧。
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“我接触过两位密歇根大学的年轻女生，她们都不敢步行去上课。她们不敢展示大卫之星。说她们害怕可能都太保守了，”他说。
罗杰斯表示，“这种激烈的言辞……将在大选中产生影响。”
共和党人看到了机会。
“有相当多坚定的民主党犹太选民无法支持埃尔-赛义德，他们可能会跨党派投票给罗杰斯。犹太选民约有7万人。如果大多数人倒向罗杰斯，就有可能带来大约10万张选票的转变。罗杰斯上次输给斯洛特金的差距还不到2万票，”布卢姆菲尔德镇财务主管迈克尔·朔斯塔克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他目前正在竞选密歇根大学董事会成员。
朔斯塔克是资深共和党人兼捐赠者，他表示“向这些选民传达的信息不是要放弃他们的民主党倾向，而是在这场选举的这个时刻，投票给罗杰斯就是为自身自保投票。让埃尔-赛义德在国家层面拥有话语权，只会让反犹太主义和极左翼进步派的声音更加响亮。”
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埃尔-赛义德在赢得参议院提名后强调：“我声援我的犹太兄弟姐妹，我们可以谴责反犹太主义。与此同时，我们可以讨论如何团结人民，我们可以讨论每个人的痛苦。
“我对犹太社区安全的承诺，与我对自己孩子安全的承诺是一样的。我们有责任反对一切形式的反犹太主义，无论我们在何处看到它。”
埃尔-赛义德的通讯主任罗克西·里奇纳告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“阿卜杜勒始终强调，区分批评以色列国家与反犹太主义的重要性。”
她表示，埃尔-赛义德“仍在与全州各地的犹太领导人保持定期对话，同时建立最广泛的联盟，以击败罗杰斯、恢复民主党对美国参议院的控制，并阻碍特朗普的议程。”
80岁的退休大学教授罗丝琳·辛德勒在底特律地区生活了五十多年，她是埃尔-赛义德的坚定支持者，并驳斥了有关其言论和信仰带有反犹太主义色彩的说法。
“我和他长谈过，你知道的。我亲自见过他。他参加过——他参加过——他确实参加过我的犹太教会堂的礼拜仪式。他也在4月2日参加了逾越节家宴。我完全相信他不是反犹太主义者，”辛德勒的父母都是大屠杀幸存者，她告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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辛德勒指出，“社区里的很多人，犹太社区里的很多人，都这么认为。”
“我不相信那是真的，”她重申道。
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Democrats face ‘do-or-die’ split with key voting bloc in razor-close Senate race
An open letter asks Jewish voters to back Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, who has declined to say whether Israel has the right to exist
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Michigan rabbi breaks with Democrats to back Republican Mike Rogers: El-Sayed would be a ‘disaster’
Michigan rabbi tells Fox News Digital Jewish Democrats are moving toward GOP nominee: ‘There’s a growing movement.’
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DETROIT —After falling just 20,000 votes shy of winning the U.S. Senate election in battleground Michigan two years ago, Republican Mike Rogers is urging Democrats, including Jewish voters, to cross party lines and vote for him as he makes a second straight Senate bid.
After a combustible and divisive Democratic Senate primary in which Abdul El-Sayed narrowly edged more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens for the nomination, Rogers is heavily courting Democrats disaffected with their left-wing nominee as he works to flip a must-hold seat for the Democrats in the midterm elections.
A key part of Rogers’ pitch is directed toward Jewish Democrats, who are uneasy with El–Sayed’s vocal criticism of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and who are outraged by El-Sayed’s association with controversial online streamer Hasan Piker, who has repeatedly railed against Israel to his massive online audience.
“I usually vote Democrat, but I’m going to be voting for Mike Rogers,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin said as he stood next to Rogers this week as the former congressman and former FBI agent unveiled his Democrats for Mike coalition at a campaign event on Detroit’s west side.
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Former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, announces support from Democrats as he launches a Dems for Mike coalition, Aug. 20, 2026, in Detroit.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
A former Wayne County Health Department director, El-Sayed, if elected in November, would make history as the nation’s first Muslim senator. The epidemiologist who unsuccessfully ran for governor as an insurgent candidate in 2018 has made support for Medicare-for-all a major component of his campaign and has also called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
But it’s El-Sayed’s stance and comments on Israel that have offended some Jewish people in Michigan, a state that also has a large Arab and Muslim population.
El-Sayed used the word “bloodthirsty” to characterize Israel’s military moves in Gaza in an MS NOW interview this month and accused Israeli leadership of genocide against Palestinians. He has argued against unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel, as have other progressive politicians. And El-Sayed has repeatedly declined to directly answer whether Israel has the right to exist.
But El-Sayed has also stated that he stands “in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers” to “condemn antisemitism.”
Lopatin, a rabbi in suburban Detroit who has made trips to the Middle East in search of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, argued that El-Sayed “has shown contempt for the Jewish community and, frankly, for American values by making Hasan Piker, a vicious antisemite and racist, his campaign surrogate and somebody he buddies up with.”
Piker, who endorsed El-Sayed in the nomination battle, appeared at some of the candidate’s campaign events, including the primary night party in Detroit. Piker, who has repeatedly stood by his comments critical of Israel, was also with El-Sayed at a party in Detroit on the eve of the primary.
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Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, talks poolside with streamer Hasan Piker at a party for content creators supporting his campaign Aug. 3, 2026, in Detroit.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
“I do have a lot of issues with a lot of policies of the Trump administration,” Lopatin told Fox News Digital. “But it’s more important to make a statement that we cannot let someone like Abdul El-Sayed get into the Senate.”
Lopatin said Jewish voters who “normally vote Democrat are going to vote for Mike Rogers, and I’m hearing that. And there’s a growing movement like that. And I think the more they meet him … the more they’re going to feel comfortable voting for a Republican, sometimes for the first time in their lives.”
Stacy, a Jewish voter from suburban Detroit who asked that only her first name be used, told Fox News Digital she’s also going to vote for Rogers.
“The Democratic Party is going way too far to the left for us moderates,” Stacy, who backed Stevens in the Senate primary, emphasized.
Asked specifically about her party’s nominee, Stacy said, “Abdul El-Sayed has been campaigning by putting a target on all Jews’ backs.”
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Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks to supporters at an election night rally at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit Aug. 4, 2026.(Getty Images)
Some Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the Great Lakes battleground state to sign their names in support of Rogers. The news was first reported this week by the Jewish Insider and confirmed by Fox News Digital.
“This is sort of a do-or-die moment,” a person involved with the letter who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News Digital. “There are many lifelong Democrats who are feeling homeless. … It’s not just a leftward drift but has turned into an anti-Jewish drift as well.”
But Joan Lowenstein, endorsement chair of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, doesn’t condone the letter and told Fox News Digital her group is keeping its distance.
“We are a part of the Michigan Democratic Party, and are not going to advocate that anyone vote for a Republican,” she said.
But Lowenstein, who also sits on the Michigan Democratic Party Central Committee, said those behind the letter “are passionate about this and feel it’s an existential issue, and I think that represents a lot of people. And, so, they have to do what they have to do.
“It’s sort of 50/50. Half the people I talk to say, ‘I could never vote for Abdul El-Sayed because of things he’s said about Israel and, consequentially, the Jewish community. And the other 50% say ‘it is so important for Jews as Americans to have an Democratic Senate that I could never vote for Mike Rogers.’”
Rogers and El-Sayed are running to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. The race is among a dozen that will determine if the Democrats win back the Senate majority from the GOP.
Rogers, in an interview with Fox News Digital, reiterated that he’s not asking Democratic voters to become Republicans. And he highlighted concerns he’s heard from Democratic Jewish voters in Michigan.
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“I’ve talked to two young women who were at University of Michigan who were afraid to walk to class. They couldn’t display their Star of David. To say that they’re afraid is probably an understatement,” he said.
Rogers said “the violent rhetoric … is going to make a difference” in the general election.
Republicans see an opportunity.
“There are a significant number of Jewish voters who are staunch Democrats that cannot support El Sayed and who may cross over and vote for Rogers. There are about 70,000 Jewish voters. If a majority flip to Rogers, that has the potential to cause a roughly 100,000 vote swing. Rogers lost to Slotkin by under 20,000 votes,” Michael Schostak, the Bloomfield Township treasurer who is running for University of Michigan Regent, told Fox News Digital.
Schostak, a longtime Republican and donor, said “the pitch to these voters is not to abandon their Democrat leanings, but that, in this race at this time, voting for Rogers is a vote for self-preservation. Allowing El-Sayed to have a voice on the national level would only give more volume to the voices of antisemitism and the far-left progressives.”
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El-Sayed, after winning the Senate nomination, emphasized, “I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers, and we can condemn antisemitism. And, at the same time, we can be talking about how we bring people together, and we can be talking about everybody’s pain.
“My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own kids. We have a responsibility to take on antisemitism in all of its forms, wherever we see it.”
El-Sayed Communications Director Roxie Richner told Fox News Digital, “Abdul has always stressed the importance of differentiating between criticizing the state of Israel and antisemitism.”
She said El-Sayed “remains in regular dialogue with Jewish leaders across the state while building the broadest possible coalition to defeat Rogers, restore Democratic control of the U.S. Senate and throw sand in the gears of Trump’s agenda.”
Roslyn Schindler, an 80-year-old retired college professor who has called the Detroit area home for more than five decades, said she is a strong supporter of El-Sayed and pushed back on the sentiment that his rhetoric and beliefs hold antisemitic undertones.
“I’ve talked to him at length, you know. I’ve met him personally. He attended — he attend — he has attended a service at my synagogue. He attended the Seder on April 2 as well. And there is no doubt in my mind that he is not antisemitic,” Schindler, whose parents were both Holocaust survivors, told Fox News Digital.
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Schindler noted “that many people in the community, in the Jewish community, think he is.”
“I don’t believe that’s true,” she reiterated.
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