Prices are up and guess what? According to a new campaign ad running in Michigan, Israel is to blame.
by David Shephard, ©2026
(Oct. 29, 2026) — The election is less than a week away now, an election which will decide which party controls the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. So, with so much at stake it probably should come as no surprise that in the final week of campaigning there will be some over-the-top ads which will be based on demagoguery and irrational fears. It makes sense; after all, nothing moves voters like fear and hatred.
Well, this week we saw such ads, including one in Michigan, which was produced by a pro‑Palestinian group, Rebellion PAC, which is linked to commentator Cenk Uygur, in an effort to help his friend, Democratic Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
El-Sayed, an American citizen who was born to Egyptian parents, is a rabidly anti-American, anti-Israeli, left-wing Democrat. The ad is considered antisemitic because it attempts, rather lamely, to blame the Jews for high grocery prices. El-Sayed’s campaign didn’t produce the ad, but he certainly agrees with its sentiment, and indeed, tellingly, he has not renounced the ad or called for it to be taken down.
The ad depicts two people, I assume a husband and wife, at a grocery store discussing what to buy, and the husband, who is apparently not even listening to her, grabs some eggs, and then, suddenly, the wife tells him to “put those eggs back” because, she explains, “We have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.” Why are the eggs so expensive? The ad doesn’t say, but the implication is that our support of Israel causes inflation. The wife then complains about the billions of dollars America gives Israel. The husband, like all husbands and men in TV commercials, is an idiot, and he still doesn’t understand, so the wife, no doubt a progressive, adds more clarification by informing her husband that, “Apparently it’s costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.”
First, it should be pointed out that Israel buys weapons from us, and we sell them the weapons because they are an ally. They consistently vote with us in the UN, they share intelligence with us, they are a democracy, and they help us fight our common enemies. And it should also be pointed out that Israel doesn’t randomly drop bombs on Palestinians. The reality is that Hamas hides behind Palestinian men, women and children.
Why do Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, Cenk Uygur, the white progressive couple in the ad, and most Democrats hate Israel? Well, besides raw antisemitism, they hate Israel because Israel is a pro-American, Western-oriented and successful capitalist country. For the left, what’s not to hate? Secondly, the ad is nonsensical because it tries, without any explanation, to connect high egg prices with America’s support for Israel. For example, is the ad recommending that the State Department divert money meant for Israel to be spent to subsidize egg producers in an effort to reduce the price?
Mercifully the ad ends with the voice of a narrator telling us that El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, former Representative Mike Rogers, “only cares about what Israelis want and so little about what you want” while El-Sayed is “for you.”
In his first debate several weeks ago against Mike Rogers, El-Sayed made a similar argument. He claimed that money we send to Israel could be used to improve education here in America. It is a specious argument because foreign aid comes from the federal government, and the federal government was created in large part for defense and foreign policy, not to fund education. For example, every state helps fund our schools, every county helps fund the school, and every city and town contributes the financial resources to educate the nation’s children. None of those municipalities funds foreign policy; that responsibility falls under the responsibility of the federal government.
As every campaign manager knows, the key to winning an election is to turn out your base, and El-Sayed’s base consists of his fellow Muslims, mostly in Dearborn, and progressives and leftists, mostly in Ann Arbor, who hate Israel. He is trying to turn them out by claiming that Israel, a Jewish state, is the source of so many of their problems, which include high egg prices. El-Sayed isn’t the first politician to try to blame the Jews. And sadly, he probably won’t be the last.
David Shephard is a native and very proud Virginian. Raised in Fairfax County, David graduated from George Mason University and majored in Government and Politics. He spent decades in politics, campaign consulting, raising money and lobbying. He is also a longtime conservative blogger writing for numerous blogs. He is also the host of “The Virginia Gentleman Podcast.”
David is the author of Elections Have Consequences, A Cautionary Tale, and his latest book, Norton’s Choice: An Inside Politics Exposé.
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