The fiance of Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. has come out and said he cannot vote for Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, believing he is an antisemite.

Stevens, though, remains undaunted, backing the candidate for Senate. Jason Turkish, a Jewish registered Democrat, told The Detroit News he will be voting for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, appearing at a Rogers event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition on Wednesday night at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan.

«I waited, and I watched and I listened for Abdul to moderate – but he didn’t moderate, he escalated,» Turkish, a Michigan lawyer himself, told reporters on the sidelines of that event in a video published by The Detroit News.

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«He’s gotten worse, and worse and worse as this general election campaign has gone on. Rather than bringing people together, he’s just driven them further and further apart.»

Despite Turkish’s concerns, Stevens has not backed down from her support for the Democrat who defeated her in a closely fought primary this summer.

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«Like a lot of households across America, we’re a house divided,» Stevens told CNN.

«I still very much want our Democratic nominee, his name is Abdul, to win this race,» she said. «There’s so much on the line.»

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Turkish says El-Sayed’s anti-Israel rhetoric makes his community «less safe,» fearing his party will bend to radicals claiming that there is a «genocide» in Gaza.

«When he says genocide over and over again, when he refuses to condemn an ad that says Jews are to blame for the price of bananas, he makes my community less safe,» Turkish said. «He makes a lot of communities less safe.»

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El-Sayed is a longtime critic of Israel, calling the war in Gaza a «genocide.» Israel argues that it is fighting terrorists that are using Gaza civilians as human shields, taking efforts to avoid civilian casualties, such as notifying people and telling them to evacuate buildings before conducting strikes.

«Every time he talks about genocide, Jews get death threats,» Turkish added. «We have never seen a candidate for U.S. Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul.»

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Turkish rebuked the candidate’s ties to California streamer Hasan Piker, and El-Sayed’s refusal to distance himself from someone he had said America deserved 9/11.

«I watch him in recent weeks as he has become verbally combative with any reporter who has the gall, as he sees it, the gall to ask him about Hasan,» Turkish said.

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«Everything we hear from Abdul El-Sayed includes equivocation, and it includes equivocations to try to explain away hate, and there is no explaining away hate. And I predict to you that Michigan will reject this.»

Turkish, a Democratic donor who has also given to some Republicans, described his decision as «putting country before party.»

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«This is not someone we can let into the United States Senate,» Rogers said of El-Sayed at his Wednesday night campaign event, making no mention of Turkish’s vote in his stump remarks. «If you don’t know Iran is our enemy and you can’t condemn a Hezbollah-inspired attack, you have no business being in the United States Senate.»

Turkish is the second major figure from Stevens’ orbit to back Rogers in recent days. Her former campaign chair, attorney David Kramer, said Tuesday he also plans to vote for Rogers. Stevens endorsed El-Sayed after the primary but has not campaigned or appeared with him publicly since a unity breakfast shortly afterward.

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The Justice Department’s Antisemitism Task Force Chairman Leo Terrell is taking the Trump administration’s fight against antisemitism directly into Jewish communities on a 15-city nationwide tour, and he says he means business.

Terrell told Digital that local leaders have too often failed to respond while Jewish Americans face threats in their schools, workplaces and houses of worship.

«The whole purpose of this tour is to go to where the problem is at, to address their needs, and to provide them with federal support,» Terrell said. «Antisemitism is now, and we have to come up with solutions for the future.»

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The «American Tour Against Hate» began Oct. 14 in Michigan, bringing representatives from the Justice Department, FBI and Labor Department together with Jewish residents, students, educators and religious leaders. The federal officials addressed antisemitism in workplaces and schools, as well as the enforcement of hate-crime laws.

Terrell said the tour was created to reach communities that feel ignored or abandoned by local officials and to connect them directly with federal resources.

«We had the FBI at the first tour meeting because some of these cities have failed to prosecute hate crimes,» Terrell said, naming Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Detroit. He did not identify specific unprosecuted cases.

Terrell said every stop on the tour would include a public event followed by visits to synagogues, Jewish schools and community centers.

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«The tour is really two days,» he said. «We have a two-hour tour event where the community is invited. You know what we do the next day? I spend the next day, all day in the Jewish community.»

The tour comes as Jews remain disproportionately targeted in religiously motivated hate crimes. According to the latest FBI data, law enforcement agencies reported 1,528 single-bias anti-Jewish hate-crime incidents in 2025. The data also showed that 62.4% of victims of religious-bias hate crimes were targeted because of anti-Jewish bias.

Terrell characterized protecting Jewish students and religious communities as a «24-7 obligation,» encompassing colleges, K-12 schools and synagogues. He also criticized the financial burden Jewish institutions face to protect students and worshipers, describing security expenses as a «Jewish tax.»

Universities remain a major focus of Terrell’s work. He warned university presidents that federal scrutiny would continue if Jewish students remained unprotected, saying potential violations would not disappear with a change in administration.

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«All these campus presidents are on notice,» he said. «You know what I think they’re trying to do? I think they’re trying to wait out President Trump. It’s not gonna happen.»

He added, «Because if they fail to take care of Jewish American students, all students, we’re going back at them, each school, because those are ongoing violations,» he said.

«My philosophy is quite simple. Don’t cut deals with these guys,» Terrell added. «Force them to go to court, get a court order settlement to make sure they are under the gun to protect Jewish American students.»

Asked about professors and those allegedly encouraging harassment, Terrell pointed to what he described as overseas influence on campuses.

«I think, first of all, there’s a lot of money being brought in from overseas to influence the administration, the faculty members and what I call professional harassers,» he said.

Asked specifically whether foreign funding and organizational coordination were being investigated, Terrell said, «That is one of the tools.»

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«The influence of overseas money as it impacts college campuses and really throughout this country to promote antisemitism. Let me tell you right now, that’s being investigated,» he said.

His call for broader participation extended to young Christians. Terrell spoke to more than 200 students at the Christian Leaders Summit Forum in Lynchburg, Virginia, hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement.

Asked why their participation mattered, Terrell called it «probably the most important meeting I’ve ever had in my job,» emphasizing the students’ youth and Christian faith.

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«This fight against antisemitism has to include everyone in this country,» he said. «Antisemitism is not a Jewish issue. It’s an American issue. It’s a Western civilization issue.»

«So I need these young people to join me on the stage, telling the Jewish community, telling all Americans we are together in fighting antisemitism,» he added. «Religious freedom must be available to all Americans.»

Asked what Jewish Americans who feel abandoned could count on him to deliver, Terrell urged them to seek help.

«I will never say no,» he said. «I will never say no to help. Call my office, call the Department of Justice.»

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El autoexilio de Flávio Bolsonaro en Estados Unidos puso a la ex primera dama brasileña Michelle Bolsonaro como cabeza política activa del clan familiar, en un clima de reorganización de la derecha brasileña después de la histórica reelección de Lula da Silva.

Michelle Bolsonaro es la gran ganadora de la dinastía creada por el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, hoy en prisión domiciliaria por una condena a 27 años de cárcel por golpismo y con sus hijos Eduardo y Flávio en la Florida para escapar de la justicia.

Michelle de Paula Firmo Reinaldo Bolsonaro, de 44 años, había perdido la interna familiar con el derrotado candidato presidencial fugado a Estados Unidos. Incluso, mantuvo con él una fuerte disputa pública con acusaciones de maltrato que se saldó con una disculpa de su hijastro.

Ahora, como senadora electa, es la única integrante del clan que aún sonríe para las fotos. Así se la vio en una imagen publicada en la influyente revista Veja junto al presidente nacional de su Partido Liberal (PL), Valdemar Costa Neto. Ambos se reunieron el martes para dialogar sobre el futuro del partido y los desafíos que enfrenta después de la derrota en el balotaje.

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El “bolsonarismo” quedó virtualmente partido en dos después del duro golpe en las urnas.

“Todavía hay incertidumbre en relación a la estrategia del Partido Liberal (PL) después de la salida de Flavio. Por ahora, el contexto es de desunión”, dijo a TN el analista brasileño Rafael Cortez, de Tendencias Consultoria.

Desde Florida, el derrotado candidato se declaró “líder de Brasil” y denunció fraude en el balotaje que ganó Lula da Silva.

“En contrapartida -señaló Cortez-, el PL camina hacia un escenario de pragmatismo. En su liderazgo, el presidente Valdemar de Costa Neto reconoció el resultado de las elecciones”.

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