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Abdul El-Sayed walks with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, during the March of the Many, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, in Detroit. <\/span>Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s<\/span> win earlier this month to become the Democratic nominee for Michigan\u2019s US Senate seat, the right has ramped up its attacks on him, condemning his past comments as evidence of him being a \u201cterrorist\u201d and \u201cradical Islamist\u201d<\/a> or a \u201cjihadist sympathizer\u201d who is \u201cinfiltrating from within\u201d<\/a>. But it has also targeted El-Sayed\u2019s family\u2014including his wife, Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist, and his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a writer and assistant professor at the University of Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n The same week as El-Sayed\u2019s victory, President Trump posted a photo of himself and First Lady Melania Trump in formal attire next to a photo of the Senate nominee and his wife, who is wearing a hijab. \u201cTwo VERY DIFFERENT America\u2019s [sic],\u201d the post reads<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n More recently, media outlets like Fox<\/a> News<\/a> and the New York Post<\/em><\/a> <\/em>have dug into Abdelhadi\u2019s past, citing her arrest last fall on a felony charge for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper during a protest outside Broadview ICE Detention Center in Chicago next to a mugshot, remarks on Israel and Palestine, and criticism of American holidays like July 4th and Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n