Steve Gold, Co-Founder of ‘Jews For Abdul,’ Is Just as Dumb as You’d Suspect

Abdulrahman El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate for Senator from Michigan. He accuses Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza. He refuses to concede that a Jewish state should exist. He hopes that it will disappear, to be replaced by a state of “Palestine.” That’s right: El-Sayed wants the single tiny Jewish state to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state. There are 150 Jews in Michigan who belong to a group called “Jews for Abdul,” who apparently find nothing wrong with his views. Is it suicidal empathy? Or leftist madness? Or early-onset dementia? You be the judge. In the meantime, more about Steve Gold, one of the co-founders of the group, can be found here: “‘Jews for Abdul’ co-founder acknowledges El-Sayed’s weaknesses with Jewish voters,” by Matthew Kassel, Jewish Insider, September 3, 2026:

A co-founder of “Jews for Abdul,” a loose coalition of Jewish activists backing Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, voiced reservations over the nominee’s approach to Israel in a recent organizing call, arguing he could “do a better job” toning down harsh rhetoric that has alienated many Jewish voters in the key battleground state.

Steve Gold, a “Jews for Abdul” member in a heavily Jewish Detroit suburb, said during the mid-August call that there were “three issues” about which El-Sayed has been “less than effective in communicating” his views, citing his refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, his “insistence on using the word genocide” to describe Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and his opposition to all U.S. funding for Israel, including for defensive weaponry.

It’s not the way he “communicates” that’s the problem El-Sayed has with Jewish voters, something to be cleared up with a little rewording here and there. It’s the content. Steve Gold refuses to recognize that El-Sayed means what he says. To repeat: he does not agree that Israel has a right to exist; he insists that Israel is committing “genocide”; he wants Israel deprived of the weaponry, both offensive and defensive, that it buys from the U.S., and without which the country would not survive.

The Lebanese Muslim who rammed his car into Temple Israel had a brother in Hezbollah whom the IDF had killed. To El-Sayed, that justified his attack because, Abdulrahman said, “hurt people hurt people.” After Jews expressed much outrage at his comment, he apologized for misspeaking, but very few Jews were convinced he meant it. One who did, however, was the credulous Steve Gold.

Gold says: “The question over whether Israel has a right to exist “needs to be answered ‘yes,’ full stop, and then go on to explaining the nuances.” What are the “nuances” in the answer to the question “does Israel have a right to exist”? Gold wants his preferred candidate Abdul to answer “yes,” but Abdul has already, on many occasions, replied “No.” Why can’t Gold believe him? What “nuances” does he suggest Abdul should provide? Something along the lines of “I support Israel as long as it allows Palestinians to exercise their Right of Return” or “I support Israel if it agrees to return back to the 1949 Armistice Lines”?

Gold said regarding El-Sayed’s answers that he was not talking about “whether they’re right or wrong.” No, the terminally confused Gold is beyond that kind of thing, worrying about “right” and “wrong.” He wants Abdulrahman to say whatever he needs to in order to win Jewish votes. Once in office, he can throw off the mask and work, as he undoubtedly will, against the interests of the Jewish state.

Gold said that “people stop listening when they” hear El-Sayed saying that “Israel doesn’t have a right to defend itself.” Yes, they certainly do stop listening to Abdul when he says that all aid to Israel, including that which supports the development and deployment of its defensive weapons, must be cut off. What, according to Steve Gold, should El-Sayed now do? Suddenly explain that he didn’t mean it, he was misunderstood, why, of course Israel, that “genocidal state,” should have all the defensive weapons it needs. He just won’t do it.

Yet Gold says of Jews that “if Abdul did a better job talking about them, it would help.” What “better job talking about them” can Abdul do? He can’t now say he meant “Yes” when he so clearly said “No” when asked about the right of Jews to have a state of their own. He can’t turn around and suddenly say “No, on second thought, I don’t think the IDF committed genocide.” Only a fool would accept such an obvious attempt to now pretend to views he does not, and never will, hold.

Steve Gold agrees with Abdul El-Sayed that Israel has committed “genocide” in Gaza. He says he has “no difference of opinion with Abdul on withholding tax dollars” from Israel which it needs to purchase American weaponry, without which Israel would subsist in a condition of maximum peril. His only point of possible contention with Abdulrahman El-Sayed is that he’s willing to concede that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, but El-Sayed still does not.

Gold also says: “There’s no reason to solicit my opinion.” At last he says something with which we can all agree. There really is no reason to solicit Steve Gold’s opinion. He’s a complete imbecile.