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Michigan election: How Abdul El-Sayed's critics smeared his defence of Palestinians as 'hate'

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By attacking his motives, the senator-elect's opponents turned a debate over US funding for Israel's genocide in Gaza into a trial of his character Abdul El-Sayed (left) won Michigan’s US Senate seat on 3 November, two days after Haley Stevens (centre), the Democrat he beat in the primary, endorsed his…
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Michigan election: How Abdul El-Sayed's critics smeared his defence of Palestinians as 'hate'
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