Abdul El-Sayed’s family ties have increased concern over the Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan, particularly as felony charges against his sister came to light.
In the past, the Red Scare came about because adherents to Marxist ideologies knew public espousal of their beliefs would make attempts at rising to power dead on arrival. These days, caution has been thrown to the wind as candidates and their ilk openly align with radicals, such as El-Sayed’s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, who was arrested in October for allegedly spitting on a law enforcement official during an anti-ICE protest.
According to a report from Fox News, the University of Chicago associate professor, fond of keffiyeh-clad ravings into a megaphone, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a government employee and two counts of resisting/obstructing peace while allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper outside the Broadview, Illinois facility — a hotbed of criminal charge-worthy activity. Aggravated battery is a Class 3 felony, while the other charges are considered a Class A misdemeanor.
Abdul El-Sayed – DEM nominee in Michigan –
His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a far-left professor & a polarizing figure. Arrested on a felony charge last year for her role in an anti-ICE riot.She works as an associate professor at the University of Chicago’s Dept of… pic.twitter.com/CWwk7QKpXi
— Blanche Victoria (@tammytabby) August 15, 2026
“These people are terrorizing our communities and they’re setting up shop,” said Abdelhadi on the “Movement Memos” podcast a day before her arrest, adding, “I mean, in Broadview, ICE has been setting up show in our backyard. Just brazenly taking up community resources to terrorize this very same community.”
As previously reported, the Senate nominee’s sister has called her own employer “evil” and a “colonial landlord” while flaunting her “access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize” made accessible by her job. “This is where I need to build power. This is my best possible structural leverage.”
U of Chicago prof appears to hate where she works, but needs it to ‘build power’ https://t.co/GDW9vd6Hs0 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 14, 2026
Reacting to the report, El-Sayed campaign spokesperson Sophie Pollock told Fox News, “Abdul loves his sister and also disagrees with her on a number of political positions and the rhetoric she’s chosen to use, including on foreign policy.”
“But Abdul is the one on the ballot and his record of public service and his platform is what matters to voters here in Michigan. His campaign has always been about his love for America and Michigan,” she added, contrary to El-Sayed’s own resurfaced statement about his state’s popular destination site, “I hate Mackinac so much.”
The sister of the nominee who earned campaign support from terrorist sympathizing podcaster Hasan Piker isn’t the only family member of concern, as El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, has been highlighted for his connection to terrorist organizations.
Jukaku is currently a member of the founders committee of the Islamic Society of North America and a board director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), both, as reported by the Washington Examiner, unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development criminal case.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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