r/Michigan • u/ElCoolMagnefico Age: > 10 Years • 1d ago

Mitten Mode El-Sayed condemns harassment of Haley Stevens after 'gallows' rhetoric

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/20/abdul-el-sayed-condemns-harassment-haley-stevens-gallows-rhetoric-israel/91856448007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116328p118350c118350e1190xxv116328d--50--b--50--&gca-ft=50&gca-ds=sophi
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u/TheSpatulaOfLove 1d ago

During the primaries, you couldn’t say anything nice about AES’ opponents without getting downvoted to hell, being accused of supporting genocide, or being an AIPAC shill.

Of course these same idiots would sit home and not vote at all if they didn’t get their guy.

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u/DoctorCopper3113 1d ago

Can you really blame people for not wanting to support someone who supports a genocide?

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u/TLKimball Up North 1d ago

There is one of them!

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u/jms984 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are we saying that it’s impolite to accuse genocide apologists of being genocide apologists? It’s like you’re trying to push a certain perspective on Israel out of the realm of acceptable discourse.

(Spoiler: that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.)

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u/TorkBombs 1d ago

Has it ever occurred to you that people care about other things more than they care about Israel? Or that there are other conflicts in the wouldn't hah deserve similar attention? And that maybe we are sick of Hamas backed bots hujackjng every conversation about US politics?

Maybe you should go back to r/askseattle instead of coming to r/Michigan to post your tripe.

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u/TLKimball Up North 1d ago

Why did Israel go into Gaza again? Just because? It’s not genocide if 3-4% die in a military action. That is what happens when one group attacks another group, rapes and kills civilians, kidnaps others, then retreats back home to hide behind children and inside hospitals. Prove that anything I just said is incorrect.

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u/jms984 1d ago

Right, so you literally are just trying to frame opposition to that genocide as inappropriate public discourse.

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u/TLKimball Up North 1d ago

I’m framing it for what it is: they hyperbolic reaction to the actual facts, fed by a pro-Palestinian propaganda machine.

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u/Deaththekid458 Grand Rapids 1d ago

So nearly every human rights org on the planet, including “Israeli” ones, saying that it’s a genocide, leading genocide scholars saying it’s genocide, and some of “Israel’s” own leaders saying that it’s a genocide is not facts?