Peloni: Oy gevalt! There is truly no borderline within the Democratic party which will not be broken in preference of maintaining faith between the allegiance of the Red-Green Alliance. America must show these reprobates the political cold shoulder which they have so righteously earned, and should this fail to be the consequence for such brazen advocacy of Jew Hatred, misogyny and anti-Americanism, the world will come to be a far darker, more tragic and less vibrant place than has been the case over what has come to be known as the American century. The future is on the line in the coming election in America, and while this is always true of every election everywhere, the coming American election in particular carries with it decisions pregnant with the legitimization of targeting of whole swaths of American society.
By Bethany Mandel | NYP | Published Aug. 25, 2026
US Senate candidate for michigan Abdul El-Sayed meets voters at Michigan Technological University. October 22, 2025. Photo by Conlan Houston – Flickr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
There are sentences one expects to hear in a United States Senate campaign.
And then there are sentences that, until Monday night, had probably never been uttered during one.
During a live interview on his show, Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, “So you think it’s OK for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?”
El-Sayed responded with a question of his own: “Are you circumcised?”
Welcome to the 2026 midterms.
It’s only going to go downhill from here.
The exchange was typical of the dodge-and-weave strategy El-Sayed used throughout the Democratic primary race, as he smugly evaded tough and rational questions about his policy positions on hot-button issues.
El-Sayed wasn’t just unprepared to answer questions on transgender medical interventions for children; he was equally unable to intelligently discuss Sharia law, reparations, healthcare costs and windmills on Lake Michigan.
His smarmy performance has been a gift to Republicans who see in the candidate a dark turn toward a new generation of extremists running as Democrats: elites promoting socialism while remaining deeply disconnected from the concerns of everyday Americans.
Fractured voter base
But it’s the issue of transgender “treatment” of children that presents Democrats with a real risk of coalitional fracture — and El-Sayed’s response to Watters indicated how unprepared they are for that eventuality.
Consider the voters El-Sayed is courting in Michigan: progressives in college towns like Ann Arbor and religious Muslim voters in places like Dearborn.
Democrats are counting on the latter to come through for them in November — but outside of a shared hostility toward Israel, the two groups have remarkably little in common.
El-Sayed’s quip comparing gender-reassignment surgery to circumcision served as a detonation device between the two groups.
Circumcision is, after all, one of the few religious practices Jews and Muslims emphatically share.
For Jews, brit milah is a 4,000-year-old covenant stretching back to Abraham, traditionally performed on a baby boy’s eighth day of life.
For Muslims, circumcision is likewise an ancient and overwhelmingly observed religious tradition, rooted in the sunnah and practiced throughout the Muslim world.
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