If you’ve ever shopped at a regular American grocery store, you’ve most likely heard regular Americans having the following regular American dialog:

Normal American 1: Should we purchase some bananas?

Normal American 2: We can’t afford bananas, because all of our cash goes to assist Israel commit genocide against harmless youngsters in Gaza.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks to reporters after a marketing campaign rally in Grand Rapids on Oct. 25, 2026. AFP via Getty Images

The advert goals to enhance Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the very aggressive Michigan Senate race.
Rebellion PAC

What’s that you say? No precise American talks like that, because Americans aren’t brainwashed zombies who believe everything is or should be about Palestine?

Nor are they antisemites who think Jews management American politics with their soiled cash?

Tell that to Cenk Uygur.

Having just lately been denied entry to the United Kingdom — even the pro-Palestinian Brits discovered his Jew-hatred extreme — the media gadfly turned to what he does greatest: defaming a certain Semitic minority. 

Over the weekend, he launched a new advert for Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, in which two Americans who look like they were forged by the Tucker Carlson fan membership are moping around their native grocery retailer and complaining they can’t afford anything — from correct healthcare to a dozen eggs for their children — because the federal authorities funnels so much of their money to Israel.

Get that, Michigan voters? The Jews are to blame for all of society’s ills.

The Jews are our misfortune.

It’s such vile, unapologetically Nazi drivel that it’s tempting to snort it all off, particularly as the bloated buffoon who produced this bit of schlock is greatest recognized for such ethical nadirs as his heat interview with David Duke and his denial of the Armenian genocide.

But Uygur’s advert strikes a deeper chord.

It reminds Jewish Democrats that no matter how arduous they strive to match in, their celebration now actually and deeply hates them.  

It’s a well timed reminder, too, for Jewish Michiganders.

Earlier this fall Dana Nessel, the state’s legal professional basic, urged her fellow Jews to sacrifice everything — even their security and safety — to defeat MAGA.

In a speech littered with comical errors — Nessel cited Queen Esther, of all individuals, as an instance of someone who put common values above her own individuals’s survival, an precise inversion of the biblical story — she argued that Jewish Democrats should prioritize points like international warming and the financial system and vote blue, the celebration’s more and more belligerent and bigoted perspective towards Israel and Jews be damned.

The new advert is a excellent sequel to Nessel’s speech.

Elect El-Sayed, it guarantees, and we’ll make every single problem about the Jews.

Health care? We can’t have it because of Bibi.

Global warming? It’s the IDF’s fault.

The Wolverines dropping to Indiana in extra time? Probably a Mossad plot.

This is how they think over in benighted third-world ratholes, like Uygur’s native Turkey.

Having way back either murdered or violently expelled all their Jewish residents, these largely Muslim nations still maintain heated demonstrations and blame the Jews for their failing economies, their repressive societies and just about everything else.

And now, Cenk Uygur and Abdul El-Sayed are bringing this same antisemitic mind-virus to the American Midwest.

At least now we know.

Every Michigan voter considering supporting El-Sayed — or, for that matter, anyone voting Democrat come November — should take a second and watch Uygur’s advert before casting their poll.

It reminds us that the coming midterm elections won’t be about points like the value of residing or even the conflict in Iran.

No, these elections are about what kind of nation we need America to be: a nation that fosters rational debate, mutual respect and a fierce perception in American exceptionalism — or one that strives to imitate the world’s worst regimes and descend into a feverish nightmare of conspiracies and hate.

It’s not a very troublesome selection to make. 

Liel Leibovitz is editor at massive for Tablet and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.