1/2 — End of a Love Story: The Lunch Partner Sabu and Daisy had been office colleagues for almost five years. They lived in different cities, and meeting at the office was their opportunity to see each other, talk, share smiles and exchange compliments. They were in love. Like every relationship, they had their share of fights. Sometimes over silly things, sometimes over serious ones. Some disagreements lasted hours, others stretched for days. But somehow, they always found their way back to each other. They had collected countless memories together: drinks after office hours, travelling, visiting temples and spending time together. But one little ritual meant more than anything else: having lunch together. Despite busy schedules, they always tried to find time for lunch. It wasn’t just about eating; it was their time together. Lunch was followed by a walk and then tea. It had become part of their everyday relationship. Whenever they fought, this ritual was the first thing to disappear. They would have lunch separately, sometimes even sitting opposite each other without exchanging a word. One day, another disagreement led to almost 15 days of silence. During this period, Daisy started having lunch with Mr X, a recently joined colleague. She liked interacting with him, and gradually they became regular lunch partners. Meanwhile, Sabu started having lunch alone. Every time he saw Daisy and Mr X having lunch together, walking together or engaging in conversations, he experienced an unfamiliar fear: the fear of being replaced, mixed with jealousy and insecurity. Yet, he remained overconfident about the strength of their five-year relationship and the love Daisy had for him.

1/2 FROM HENRY FORD TO ABDUL EL-SAYED: MICHIGAN’S CENTURY OF CHOOSING JEW-HATRED An Open Letter to the People of Michigan Dear Michiganders, A hundred years ago, your state’s most famous citizen, Henry Ford, was the only American Adolf Hitler praised by name in Mein Kampf. Hitler wrote that the Jews were becoming the controlling masters of American industry, and that only one great man, Ford, still held out independently. Ford then spent his own fortune publishing The Dearborn Independent, a monthly antisemitic newspaper he distributed to his workers and dealerships — a hate-filled rant against the Jewish people dressed up as journalism. Michigan’s most celebrated industrialist was, by his own hand, an engine of Jew-hatred. Now, a century later, Michigan has elected Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate — and the pattern has not broken. It has evolved. El-Sayed’s family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are not rumor. They are in his own family’s words. His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, posted publicly in 2012: “My family has long been MB.” A year later: “I have had family jailed for being a part of it.” Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, was active in the Brotherhood during her college years in Egypt in the early seventies. Elkomy also worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency — an organization the U.S. Treasury designated for providing direct financial support to al-Qaeda and the Hamas terrorist group. That group later pleaded guilty to transferring over a million dollars to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. El-Sayed’s father, Mohammed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development — a charity the FBI raided, that settled $780,000 with federal regulators for knowingly funneling cash to Saddam’s regime in violation of U.S. sanctions, and whose board members are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in federal prosecutors’ own documents. His father-in-law served on that same board and on the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that convicted men of sending $12 million to Hamas. When asked on national television whether he or their family had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, El-Sayed said, flatly: “No.” Twice. This is the man Michigan chose. Not despite this record — with it. And what did he say about Jews? After a terrorist rammed his vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield and tried to burn it down with preschoolers inside, El-Sayed condemned the attack — then added that the attacker was a “hurt” man whose family had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. “Hurt people hurt people.” He later called it a mistake. But the instinct was there, and it was the same instinct that produced his campaign’s rhetoric: calling Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide, opposing even defensive aid like the Iron Dome, and running alongside a streamer who warned that American Jews supporting Israel would eventually face consequences at home. October 7th was carried out by the Hamas terrorist group — the mass rape and murder of Jewish women, the murder of Jewish babies and children, and the kidnapping of over 250 Israelis. Scale that to America’s population and you are talking about 40,000 Americans slaughtered and thousands more dragged into tunnels. Yet in Michigan — in Detroit, in Dearborn, across this state — there were no parades for the victims. There were organized marches against Israel. That is not foreign policy disagreement. That is selective grief, and it has a name: antisemitism. If El-Sayed had said about Black Americans or gay Americans what he has said about Jews, he would be barred from every ballot in this country. Instead, the Democratic Party platformed him, funded him, and celebrated him. Michigan voters put him in the highest office this state can send to Washington.

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