El-Sayed Responds to Trump on Israel, AIPAC and U.S. Military Aid

Let's talk about another big issue

that dominated the campaign and

will undoubtedly be a big topic

of conversation in the general election,

your criticism of Israel.

President Trump had this to say

after your win this week.

I'm going to play it.

Get your reaction on the other side.

Take a look.

He doesn't love Israel.

He doesn't love Jewish people.

He hates them.

He hates them with a passion

that burns in his heart.

What's your reaction to that, Dr. El-Sayed?

I love and revere Judaism

and the Jewish people.

I believe they're a light unto the world.

I grew up in a community

that had a large Jewish population.

I was so grateful to get to be invited

to Seder and to Shul and

to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

I'm really honored for what I learned

and got to share with my Jewish sisters and brothers.

But they are not the same as AIPAC in Israel.

AIPAC is an organization that spent,

what, $30 million to beat me

so that we could,

they could have one vote, one more vote

in the U.S. Senate

to guarantee that our taxpayer dollars would be sent

abroad to subsidize a foreign government's military to

do the worst things.

Genocide. Apartheid.

Take us into wars we have no business fighting.

And I'm running for Senate here in Michigan.

I believe that we have a responsibility here

in Michigan.

I want our tax dollars spent to provide good schools,

to pay for healthcare,

to rebuild our roads here in Michigan,

rather than it being sent abroad to subsidize foreign militaries.

That's not just Israel, by the way.

That is also Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Pakistan.

So I believe in international law.

I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination

for all people.

I believe in a process that allows

a free Palestinian people and free Jewish Israeli people

to come together around what they believe

the ultimate peace should look like.

And I believe that our tax dollars should be spent

on the things that are needed here in Michigan,

rather than to subsidize foreign militaries abroad.