Was an El-Sayed Ad the Most Antisemitic Political Ad In US History?

This is what Michigan voted for: Just as Senator-elect Abdulrahman Al-Sayed may be the most antisemitic political figure in American history, one of the ads he ran — which Cenk Uyghur created — may be the most antisemitic in US history. More on that ad can be found here: “Is Michigan’s ‘Killing Palestinians’ Grocery Store Ad the Vilest Political Ad Ever?,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, Honest Reporting, October 27, 2026:

“Honey, you’re going to have to put those eggs back,” a woman tells her husband as they browse the aisles of a grocery store.

“They don’t like eggs anymore?” he asks, visibly surprised.

“No, they like eggs,” she replies, raising her eyebrows as though stating the obvious. “But we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”

“What?” He looks at her incredulously. “Don’t we give Israel $4 billion a year anyway?”

“Yeah, and now we’re giving them another $26 billion,” she explains. “It’s like $161 per person. Apparently it’s costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.”

“It’s terrible,” he mutters.

“Yeah,” she agrees.

“Don’t they get universal healthcare too?”

“Yeah, they do. We’re paying for that too, probably.” She shrugs. “Might as well put the bananas back.”

As though ticking another item off a “blame Israel” checklist, the ad flashes a graphic blaming the war in Iran for soaring American gas prices before turning its sights on Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

“Mike Rogers is for they/them,” the narrator declares, as images of Israeli leaders appear on screen. “Abdul El-Sayed is for you.”

The 90-second advertisement was released by Rebellion PAC, a political action committee co-founded by The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur, in support of Democratic candidate El-Sayed’s campaign in Michigan’s November 3 Senate election.

And it’s perhaps the most brazen examples of antisemitic scapegoating to appear in an American political advertisement ever.

No, Israel Isn’t Responsible for Your Grocery Bill

First, let’s establish something fundamental: the advertisement’s central economic argument rests on claims that are demonstrably false.

Start with the eggs.

The advertisement suggests that an American family must sacrifice a $7 carton of eggs because too much of their tax money is being spent supporting Israel.

Never mind that the average price of a dozen eggs was actually $2.27 in September 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the more important question is why grocery prices have risen so dramatically in the United States in recent years. And does Israel bear any responsibility?

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the principal drivers included pandemic-related supply-chain disruptions, rising production and transportation costs, labor shortages, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine disrupted global supplies of wheat, corn and vegetable oils, while driving up energy and fertilizer costs. Those increases rippled through international food markets, raising the cost of producing, transporting and selling groceries, including in the United States.

Then there was avian influenza, which devastated American poultry flocks and sent egg prices soaring in 2024 and early 2025. Their subsequent decline reflected recovering supplies.

Indeed, the USDA found that grocery prices rose by 24 percent between January 2020 and January 2023, driven by these economic shocks. Nowhere in its analysis does American military assistance to Israel feature as a cause.

Note that the 24% rise in grocery prices took place before the war in Gaza began.

Of the $26 billion in the 2024 emergency spending package that the ad claims was given to Israel, $9 billion went to humanitarian aid for “Palestinians” and others, $6.8 billion went to the American military, both to replenish military supplies at home, and money for its bases in Arab countries. Another $5.2 billion went for defensive systems for Israel, not for “dropping bombs on Gaza.” At most, $3.5 million went to Israel for what may have been — and even this is not clear — offensive weapons.

Promoting the video on X, Uygur declared: “We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers.”

If Uyghur is worried about foreign financing from the Middle East, he ought to be most worried not about Israel, but about Qatar, that has spent $400 billion to buy influence in Washington, and in local and state governments, in higher education, and above all, in its funding of Al Jazeera, which has become a media behemoth that rivals the BBC in reach, that feeds anti-Israel propaganda to the American public through its online presence.

“So Israel can get [sic] all its wars.” It was Hamas, not Israel, that started the war in Gaza by unleashing its atrocities on October 7, 2023. It was Iran, operating through its many proxies — including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — that has been attacking Israeli civilians and forcing Israel to respond by attacking not just those proxies, but also “the head of the snake.” Iran is intent not just on destroying Israel, but in driving American forces out of the Middle East. The “Great Satan” is as much a target as the “Little Satan.” That was why the American military launched a joint attack with Israel on the Islamic Republic.

The war against the Hamas terrorists in Gaza was, and remains, a just war against those who had decapitated babies, tied whole families with wire and burned them alive, gang-raped girls and women, stabbing them in their vaginas and slicing off their breasts, cut off the genitalia of men and gouged out the eyes of both men and women. The war to deprive Iran of both ballistic missiles and of the ability to produce nuclear weapons which would threaten not just Israel, the “Little Satan,” but also the “Great Satan” America, was a necessary war that may still see a second round of attacks by both countries on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

No American funds have gone to pay for Israel’s universal healthcare system. The rise in food prices in the U.S. has less to do with Israel, and far more to do with the war in Ukraine, that ever since February 2022 has disrupted global supplies of wheat, corn, and vegetable oils, while driving up energy and fertilizer costs. The attempt to paint aid to Israel as a gigantic drain on the American taxpayer is similarly false. The $3.8 billion in annual aid amounts to 0.05% of Federal spending. In any case, even that aid will end by January 1, 2027.