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共和党对手抨击埃尔-赛义德的“虚假道歉”，密歇根民主党参议员候选人急于修复与犹太选民的关系
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发布于2026年8月31日美国东部时间下午12:29
被问及密歇根州总检察长达娜·内塞尔对他今年早些时候在一所犹太教堂遇袭事件后发表的初始言论的批评时，民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“对于任何觉得我的言论可能伤人的人，我真的很抱歉。”
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密歇根州民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德过去一周一直在试图修复与该州犹太民主党人的关系，但他的共和党对手称埃尔-赛义德的言论是“虚假道歉”。
埃尔-赛义德周六在密歇根州民主党人犹太核心小组的活动中，以及在回答福克斯新闻数字频道的提问时，为他在3月份底特律郊区一所犹太教堂遇袭事件后发表的言论道歉。但当被要求驳斥极具争议的左翼网红主播哈桑·皮克的言论时，他予以了反驳——皮克是他竞选活动的坚定支持者。
作为以色列的直言不讳的批评者，埃尔-赛义德将以色列军队在加沙针对哈马斯的军事行动描述为“种族灭绝”。他正在与前众议员迈克·罗杰斯角逐这个大湖沿岸摇摆州的关键开放参议院席位，民主党人必须保住这个席位，才能在中期选举中夺回对参议院的控制权。
埃尔-赛义德在颇具争议的党内对决中以微弱优势击败立场更温和的众议员黑利·史蒂文斯，这可以说是左翼迄今为止在对抗建制派、争夺民主党意识形态未来的斗争中取得的最大胜利。过去一周，埃尔-赛义德出席了在密歇根州兰辛举行的州党代会，试图在初选对决后团结民主党人。
密歇根州民主党总检察长指责其政党“完全没有”采取足够措施打击反犹主义
2026年8月29日，密歇根州兰辛，美国参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在密歇根州民主党代表大会上发表演讲。（彼得·达布罗斯卡/福克斯新闻数字频道）
福克斯新闻数字频道向埃尔-赛义德提及了近期因他针对密歇根州一所犹太教堂袭击事件发表的言论引发的争议。联邦调查人员称，一名受真主党启发并被其激进思想洗脑的枪手驾车撞入教堂，企图杀害尽可能多的犹太人。据称袭击者是一名黎巴嫩裔男子，一周前他的亲属在以色列对黎巴嫩的空袭中丧生。
“受伤的人会做出伤人的事，”埃尔-赛义德在回应袭击时曾如此说道。他遭到了本党成员的批评，其中包括密歇根州州务卿达娜·内塞尔。内塞尔在最近接受《大西洋月刊》采访时谈到了这些言论，并因担忧民主党党内存在反犹主义，部分原因没有出席上周的党代会。
埃尔-赛义德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他的言论“可能被误解为为我无意为之的行为辩解”，随后他道歉。
“对于任何觉得我的言论可能伤人的人，我真的很抱歉。那并非我的本意。我们谴责了那次恐怖袭击，我们明确谴责了它，”埃尔-赛义德补充道。“我当时试图做的是为袭击发生的原因提供背景，但那不是谈论背景的时候，你永远不想践踏他人的痛苦。”
埃尔-赛义德是一名流行病学家，曾任韦恩县卫生部门主管，如果在11月当选，他将成为美国首位穆斯林参议员。和其他进步派政客一样，他反对美国向以色列提供无条件军事援助。埃尔-赛义德还多次拒绝直接回答以色列是否有权存在这一问题。
他表示，他对密歇根州犹太选民的信息是：“在外交政策方面，我们可能并非事事都意见一致……我不会停止为巴勒斯坦人民的自决权而战……但这并不意味着我不会挺身而出……保护所有社区的安全，我相信犹太儿童的安全和尊严，就像我相信自己孩子的安全和尊严一样。”
在接受记者提问前，埃尔-赛义德在兰辛会见了该州民主党犹太核心小组。
“他刚刚和我们进行了一次非常棒的会面，”大会代表、该核心小组成员丹尼尔·里夫金告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他指的是埃尔-赛义德。“我们正在进行真正的对话。”
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福克斯新闻数字频道周一证实，埃尔-赛义德的竞选团队也在聘请一名犹太事务联络人。
但密歇根州的一些犹太领导人周六公开了一封公开信，敦促该州的犹太民主党人和独立人士签名支持罗杰斯。罗杰斯曾在2024年参议院选举中以仅2万票的差距落败，此次是他第二次参选参议员。
“我们中的许多人曾坚定支持民主党候选人和原则。我们所有人都感到受到了威胁和疏远，因为阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德所秉持的政治立场和所结交的盟友包括妖魔化犹太人、对恐怖主义持模棱两可的态度、将美国犹太人排除在公共生活之外，以及表达对世界上唯一犹太国家的不可调和的仇恨，”信中写道。
罗杰斯在一封提及这封公开信的声明中称，“阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德煽动反犹主义的火焰。我们正在努力将其扑灭。”
在周一上午福克斯新闻的《福克斯与朋友们》节目采访中，罗杰斯表示：“密歇根州有这么多民主党犹太人给我们打电话说，‘我做不到。我支持你。’”
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谈及埃尔-赛义德，罗杰斯说：“当有人说你可能会被自己所说的话冒犯时，那不是道歉。”
他还声称埃尔-赛义德“有着长期发表反犹主义和煽动性言论的历史”。
但埃尔-赛义德一再反驳称：“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。我们有责任打击一切形式的反犹主义，无论我们在何处发现它。”
让埃尔-赛义德与犹太民主党人和独立人士和解的任务更加困难的是他得到了皮克的支持。
皮克最近在其直播中展示了密歇根州第11国会选区民主党参议员候选人杰里米·莫斯的照片。莫斯是犹太人，他表示，有人在传播一段伪造的音频剪辑，称他参选国会的唯一原因就是确保美国继续支持以色列。
“如果美国的犹太人一直宣扬他们只对以色列感兴趣的观点，最终会有人站出来采取行动，请注意，不是针对以色列国，而是针对美国犹太人，”皮克警告道。
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2026年8月3日，底特律，密歇根州联邦参议院民主党初选进步派候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在一场支持其竞选活动的内容创作者派对上，与主播哈桑·皮克在泳池边交谈。（朱莉娅·德马雷·尼基森/美联社照片）
皮克曾支持埃尔-赛义德获得民主党提名，并出席了该候选人的一些竞选活动，包括底特律的初选之夜派对，他一再为自己过去针对以色列在加沙对抗哈马斯的持续战争发表的众多批评言论辩护。
过去一周，埃尔-赛义德似乎试图与皮克保持距离，他在回应这场风波时表示：“我想明确说明，除了我和我的竞选发言人之外，没有人代表本竞选团队发言。”
周六，埃尔-赛义德被记者轮番问及皮克的问题。
“我们在密歇根州。如果你想让这场竞选变成关于加州一名主播的事情，我认为你完全搞错了重点，”埃尔-赛义德告诉记者。“这场竞选关乎密歇根州的民生负担。关乎在密歇根州看医生。关乎唐纳德·特朗普在密歇根州实施的灾难性政策。这就是我目前关注的重点。”
随着有关皮克的问题持续不断，埃尔-赛义德一再将他描述为“来自加州的主播”，与他在密歇根州的竞选无关。“这不是一场严肃的对话。”
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除了众多反犹主义言论外，皮克还以发表“美国活该遭遇9/11”、赞扬毛泽东和中华人民共和国，以及主张应在街上处决资本家而闻名。
民主党人在以色列问题上的分歧之际，大多数共和党领导人仍在展示他们对以色列领导人的支持。周日晚间，共和党犹太联盟年度领导人峰会在拉斯维加斯开幕，埃尔-赛义德和极左翼人士遭到了与会的资深共和党活动人士和捐赠者的嘘声。
共和党全国委员会主席乔·格鲁特斯周一在RJC集会上表示，“助长2023年10月7日哈马斯对以色列大规模袭击的同一仇恨”已在我们的后院滋生。那次袭击造成约1200人死亡，并引发了持续至今的战争。
“它已在民主党党内找到了落脚点。这不是一夜之间发生的。随着激进极端分子接管该党，民主党领导人任由他们发展，这种情况一步步发生了，”格鲁特斯辩称。
与此同时，左翼和中间派之间为争夺民主党未来的斗争没有停歇。
前大使、国会议员、芝加哥市长、前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的前白宫办公厅主任拉姆·伊曼纽尔瞄准了针对该党建制派的社会主义势力。
“民主党不会被接管，”正在认真考虑2028年总统竞选的伊曼纽尔告诉福克斯新闻的香农·布里姆在《福克斯周日新闻》节目中。
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“我不认为民主社会主义者是民主党党的一部分。大约四周前，他们在芝加哥举行了一次代表大会。他们是一个独立的政党。他们主张削减警察经费、释放囚犯、开放边境、废除国防部。如果你如此确信民众支持这些主张，那我11月见。把这些主张放到选票上。我们开始吧。以独立政党的身份参选，”伊曼纽尔强调。
民主党领导人在被问及该党当前的意识形态斗争时，常常将民主党称为“大帐篷”政党。
但资深民主党战略家朱利安·爱泼斯坦批评了这种回应，并抨击其政党未能点名谴责美国民主社会主义者（DSA）。
“他们躲在空洞的‘大帐篷’谎言背后，而激进的DSA成员和盟友，比如密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德和科罗拉多州的梅拉特·基罗斯，已经在民主党初选中获胜，”爱泼斯坦上周在《纽约邮报》的一篇专栏文章中写道。
爱泼斯坦曾在1998年针对时任总统比尔·克林顿的弹劾程序中担任众议院司法委员会民主党少数派首席律师，后来还曾加入希拉里·克林顿的总统竞选团队，他辩称：“温和派应该团结起来，摒弃大帐篷的幻想——因为他们除了枷锁之外一无所有可失去。”
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随着众议院恢复议事，一项“谴责一切形式的社会主义”的决议可能在本周晚些时候进行投票。
科罗拉多州共和党众议员杰夫·克兰克周四提出了一项谴责一切形式社会主义的议案，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他希望通过此次投票迫使众议院温和派民主党人公开反对DSA。
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El-Sayed tries to make peace with Jewish Democrats but draws line at dumping Hasan Piker
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GOP rival blasts El-Sayed’s ‘sham apology’ as Michigan Dem Senate nominee scrambles to mend fences with Jewish voters
By Paul Steinhauser, Peter D’Abrosca, Fox News
Published August 31, 2026 12:29pm EDT
Asked about Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s criticism of his initial comments after a synagogue attack earlier this year, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed tells Fox News Digital: ‘To anybody who feels like my comments may have been hurtful, I’m really sorry.’
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Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed spent this past weekend trying to mend fences with Jewish Democrats in Michigan, but his Republican rival calls El-Sayed’s comments a “sham apology.”
El-Sayed, in an appearance Saturday before the Michigan Democrats’ Jewish Caucus, and in an answer to a question from Fox News Digital, apologized for comments he made after a March attack on a suburban Detroit synagogue. But he pushed back when asked to repudiate controversial comments from incendiary left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who is a strong supporter of his campaign.
A vocal critic of Israel who describes its military actions against Hamas in Gaza as “genocide,” El-Sayed is facing off against former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee in the Great Lakes battleground state, for a crucial open Senate seat the Democrats must hold in the midterm elections as they aim to win back control of the chamber.
El-Sayed’s narrow primary victory over more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in what was a divisive intraparty showdown was arguably the biggest victory to date for the left in its battle against the establishment for the ideological future of the Democratic Party. El-Sayed appeared this past weekend at the state party’s nominating convention in Lansing, Michigan in an effort to unify Democrats in the wake of the primary battle.
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U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party convention, on August 29, 2026, in Lansing, Michigan.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)
Fox News Digital asked El-Sayed about a recent controversy stemming from comments he made in response to an attack on a Michigan synagogue, when federal investigators say a gunman inspired and radicalized by Hezbollah crashed into the place of worship seeking to kill as many Jewish people as he could. The alleged attacker was a Lebanese-born man who a week earlier had lost relatives in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
“Hurt people, hurt people,” El-Sayed said in response to the attack. He was criticized by members of his own party, including Michigan Secretary of State Dana Nessel, who discussed the comments in a recent interview with The Atlantic, and declined to attend this past weekend’s convention partly over concerns of antisemitism in the Democratic Party.
El-Sayed told Fox News Digital his comments “might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify,” but then offered an apology.
“To anybody who feels like my comments may have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention. We condemned that terrorist attack. We condemned it outright,” El-Sayed added. “What I was trying to do was offer context for why it happened, but it wasn’t the time for context and you don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain.”
El-Sayed is an epidemiologist and former Wayne County Health Department director who, if elected in November, would make history as the nation’s first Muslim senator. 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.
He said his message to Jewish voters in Michigan is, “We may not agree on everything when it comes to foreign policy… I’m not going to stop fighting for Palestinian self-determination… but that does not mean that I will not stand up… for safety for all communities and I believe in the safety and dignity of Jewish kids like I believe in the safety and dignity of my own kids.”
Before taking questions from reporters, El-Sayed met in Lansing with the state’s Democratic Jewish Caucus.
“He just had a very good meeting with us,” Daniel Rivkin, a convention delegate and member of the caucus, told Fox News Digital, as he referred to El-Sayed. “We’re having real conversations.”
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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, on August 20, 2026, in Detroit, Michigan.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The El-Sayee campaign is also in the process of hiring a Jewish liaison, Fox News Digital confirmed on Monday.
But some Jewish leaders in Michigan went public on Saturday with an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the state to sign their names in support of Rogers, who is making a second straight run for the Senate after falling just 20,000 votes short in 2024.
“Many of us have been fiercely supportive of Democratic candidates and principles. All of us have felt threatened and alienated by the politics and allies embraced by Abdul El-Sayed, which has included demonization of Jews, equivocation on terrorism, exclusion of Jewish Americans from public life, and expression of implacable hatred of the world’s only Jewish nation,” the letter stated.
Rogers, in a statement highlighting the letter, claimed that “Abdul El-Sayed fans the flames of antisemitism. We’re fighting to extinguish it.”
In an interview Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Rogers said, “We’ve had so many Democrat Jewish people here in the state of Michigan ring up our phone and say, “I can’t do this. I’m for you.”
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Referring to El-Sayed, Rogers said, “When someone says you might have been offended by what I said, that’s not an apology.”
And he claimed that El-Sayed “has a long history of antisemitic and inflammatory comments.”
But El-Sayed has repeatedly pushed back, saying, “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.”
Making El-Sayed’s mission to make peace with Jewish Democrats and independents more difficult is the backing he receives from Piker.
Piker recently featured on his stream an image of state Sen. Jeremy Moss, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District. Moss, who is Jewish, has said that people are sharing a fake audio clip of him claiming that his entire reason for running for Congress is to make sure that America continues to support Israel.
“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews,” Piker warned.
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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, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Detroit.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Piker, who endorsed El-Sayed for the Democratic nomination and appeared at some of the candidate’s campaign events including a primary night party in Detroit, has repeatedly stood by his numerous past comments critical of Israel over its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.
El-Sayed, who over the past week appeared to try and distance himself from Piker, responded to the firestorm by saying, “I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”
On Saturday, El-Sayed was peppered with questions from reporters about Piker.
“We’re in the state of Michigan. If you want to make this race about a streamer in California, I just think you’re missing the boat,” El-Sayed told reporters. “This is about affordability in Michigan. This is about seeing a doctor in Michigan. This is about Donald Trump’s disastrous policies in Michigan. That’s what I’m focused on right now.”
As the questions about Piker continued, El-Sayed repeatedly characterized him as “a streamer from California” who is irrelevant to his race in Michigan. “This is not a serious conversation.”
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Besides his numerous antisemitic comments, Piker is known for saying “America deserved 9/11,” praising Mao Zedong and Communist China, and arguing that capitalists should be murdered in the streets.
The Democrats’ discord over Israel comes as most GOP leaders continue to showcase their support for Israeli leaders. As the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership summit got underway Sunday evening in Las Vegas, El-Sayed and the far-left drew boos from the audience of high-powered GOP activists and donors.
Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters, speaking Monday at the RJC gathering, said that “the same hatred that fueled” the Oct. 7, 2023 large-scale attack by Hamas on Israel that killed about 1,200 people and triggered the ongoing war “is growing right here in our backyard.”
“It has found a home in the Democratic Party. This did not happen overnight. It happened step-by-step as radical extremists took over the party, and the Democratic leaders let them,” Gruters argued.
Meanwhile, there’s no letup in the battle between the left and the center for the future of the Democratic Party.
Rahm Emanuel, a former ambassador, congressman, Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff to then-President Barack Obama, took aim at the socialist push taking aim at the party’s establishment.
“The Democratic Party is not open to being taken over,” Emanuel, who’s seriously mulling a 2028 White House run, told Fox News’ Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”
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“I don’t consider the Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party. About four weeks ago, they had a convention in Chicago. Separate party. They believe in defunding police, letting prisoners out of prison, opening borders, eliminating the Pentagon. If you’re so confident people want that, I’ll see you in November. Put it on the ballot. Let’s go. Run as a separate party,” Emanuel emphasized.
Democratic Party leaders, when asked about the party’s current ideological warfare, often point to Democrats as a “big tent” party.
But veteran Democratic strategist Julian Epstein criticizes such responses and jabs at his party for failing to call out the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
“They’ve taken cover behind the empty ‘Big Tent” lie as radical DSA members and allies, like Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Colorado’s Melat Kiros, triumph in Democratic primaries,” Epstein wrote in an opinion piece last week in the New York Post.
Epstein, who served as chief counsel for the Democratic minority on the House Judiciary Committee during the 1998 impeachment proceeds against then-President Bill Clinton and who later served on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, argued, “Moderates should unite and shed the Big Tent delusion — because they have nothing to lose but their chains.”
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With the House of Representatives back in session, a resolution “condemning socialism in all its forms” could see a vote later this week.
Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., introduced a measure Thursday condemning socialism in all its forms, telling Fox News Digital he wanted to use the vote to force moderate House Democrats to take a more public stance against the DSA.
Fox News’ James Cirrone contributed to this report
. Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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