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Dana Nessel is not exactly a Fox News regular. She's a Democrat, she's Jewish, and she's the sitting Attorney General of Michigan. So when she says her own party's Senate nominee never walked back comments that sounded like an excuse for an attempted synagogue attack, that's not a talking point from the right.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is escalating her criticism of the Democratic Party’s handling of antisemitism, warning that the party has become increasingly hostile to Jewish Americans and expressing concern that U.S.
Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has never withdrawn comments she says appeared to rationalize an attempted attack on a Michigan synagogue. Nessel, a Jewish
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Dana Nessel is not exactly a Fox News regular. She's a Democrat, she's Jewish, and she's the sitting Attorney General of Michigan. So when she says her own party's Senate nominee never walked back comments that sounded like an excuse for an attempted synagogue attack, that's not a talking point from the right. That's a warning shot from inside the tent.
What's striking is how familiar this pattern has become. Something happens that should be an easy, obvious condemnation, and instead there's hedging, context-providing, and eventually silence once the news cycle moves on. El-Sayed had a chance to clean this up. He didn't take it. Nessel noticed, and she's not letting it slide just because he's on her ballot line.
This isn't really about one candidate in one Senate race. It's about whether "never again" still means something when it's inconvenient, or whether it bends depending on who's doing the threatening and who's on the receiving end. A party that can't say plainly that rationalizing violence against a synagogue is disqualifying has a bigger problem than one primary.
Democrats keep acting surprised when Jewish voters start looking elsewhere. Nessel is telling them exactly why, from the inside, and naming the person responsible. That took some nerve. It shouldn't have had to.
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