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Fierce Israel critic launches Senate bid in Michigan high-stakes 2026 midterm race

A former Michigan public health official and Democratic candidate for governor entered the race for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat on Thursday in what could be one of the most watched races in the 2026 midterm elections.
Abdul El-Sayed, 40, is the second Democrat to put his name in the running to replace Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, who is not seeking reelection.
El-Sayed, a prominent figure in a movement that was highly critical of support for Israel in the 2024 election cycle, aims to set himself apart from the other Democratic candidates in the race to replace Peters, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow.
McMorrow has said she would vote against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., retaining his leadership position should she prevail in the primary and general election to represent the battleground state in the upper chamber of Congress.
However, El-Sayed held back criticism of Schumer.
«Anybody who tells you that they’re going to unilaterally oppose one potential candidate without knowing who the alternative is, is either unnuanced or unsophisticated,» El-Sayed told Politico. «So I want to know who is available, who is actively seeking the leadership. I’ll make a decision from there.»
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Michigan Democratic then-gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed campaigns with support from New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a rally on the campus of Wayne State University on July 28, 2018, in Detroit. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
«What we need right now is somebody who’s willing to take the fight directly to Trump and Musk, but then also knows how to rebuild a version of our federal government that better serves working people after the carnage that Musk and Trump are going to leave behind, and I think I offer that,» he told Politico.
Other Democrats considering a run to replace Peters include U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
El-Sayed was active in the «uncommited movement,» a group of anti-Israel, traditionally Democratic voters in Michigan, a critical swing state, who threatened to withhold support from then-President Joe Biden, and then then-Vice President Kamala Harris, over the administration’s stance on Gaza. He did say he would back whoever was the eventual Democratic choice for the presidential ticket to oppose now-President Donald Trump, according to Politico.
The Israel-Hamas war exposed deep divisions within the Democratic Party last election cycle, and there is concern the conflict could again make for a messy Senate Democratic primary in Michigan if the American Israel Public Affairs Committee intervenes. The powerful pro-Israel lobby group financially backed Stevens in 2022, when redistricting forced a competitive primary run against fellow Democrat, Rep. Andy Levin.
«Everybody is unified around leadership that reminds the Democratic Party that we ought to be the party of peace and justice, that we ought not to be the party sending bombs and money to foreign militaries to drop bombs on other people’s kids in their schools and their hospitals, when our kids need more, our hospitals and schools need more, and we should be spending that money here at home,» El-Sayed told Politico.

Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a coronavirus public health roundtable with presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday, March 9, 2020. (Erin Kirkland/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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El-Sayed ran for governor in 2018 as a progressive Democrat and was endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
He came in second in the Democratic primary, losing to Gretchen Whitmer by more than 20 points and beating now-U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar by more than 12 points. Whitmer went on to win the general election and is in the midst of a second term. She cannot run again because of term limits.
A resident of Ann Arbor, El-Sayed recently served as director of the Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services in Wayne County, home to Detroit. Before that, he was the public health director of the city after it declared bankruptcy in 2013.
El-Sayed cautioned Democrats against learning the «wrong lessons» from their defeats.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in a coronavirus public health roundtable with healthcare professionals, including Abdul El-Sayed, left, as he campaigns on March 9, 2020, in Detroit. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
«If you cut corners and trim your message, and you triangulate to the least common denominator, you can find something that’s perfectly inoffensive to everyone, and the problem with that is that you’re not actually saying anything,» he told Politico.
El-Sayed said he met with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Tuesday. He told Politico that it was his «understanding» that the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm would not get involved in the primary. If that happens, that deviates from how the DSCC previously acted to clear the field of potential primary candidates to make for an easier primary victory for then-Rep. Elissa Slotkin. Now-Sen. Slotkin, D-Mich., easily won the primary over Hill Harper, and then won the general election.
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El-Sayed is also the second candidate this week to launch a campaign to replace Peters. On the Republican side, former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers launched his bid on Monday after losing the Senate race last year by 19,000 votes to Democrat Slotkin.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Enfermedad verde, el extraño padecimiento que afectaba a jóvenes vírgenes en el siglo XVII

En la Londres del siglo XVII, decenas de jóvenes mujeres morían cada año por la llamada “enfermedad verde”, un diagnóstico desaparecido hoy de la medicina.
El fenómeno se registró principalmente entre mujeres adolescentes, alrededor de los años 1650. La afección preocupó tanto a médicos, familias y autoridades, que intentaron explicar sus causas y buscar posibles tratamientos. El término marcó la historia médica durante siglos, aunque para la actualidad su significado resulta confuso.
De acuerdo con National Institutes of Health, las primeras descripciones médicas de la enfermedad destacaron varios síntomas. Las jóvenes afectadas presentaban rostros pálidos, debilidad extrema, dificultad para alimentarse, hinchazón de tobillos y una pronunciada apatía.

Según detalló JSTOR Daily, numerosos médicos del período asociaron la enfermedad exclusivamente con mujeres jóvenes que no habían contraído matrimonio. Así, surgió la expresión popular “enfermedad de las vírgenes”, reforzando la idea de que un cierto estado civil guardaba relación directa con la salud.
John Graunt, considerado precursor de la estadística en Inglaterra, analizó el fenómeno en la capital británica. En sus informes, empleó eufemismos para evitar detalles explícitos sobre una supuesta causa sexual, pues en la época resultaba vergonzoso mencionarla.
En ese sentido, Graunt anotó en su tabla de mortalidad “Stopping of the Stomach”, pero aclaró que, en verdad, hacía referencia a la enfermedad verde.

Durante siglos, la enfermedad también ocupó un lugar notable en la cultura popular. Shakespeare empleó el término en Romeo y Julieta y en Henry IV, Parte 2 para ridiculizar o señalar debilidades. La referencia a una apariencia pálida y enfermiza reforzó la idea de un vínculo entre la salud física y el estado emocional o social de los adolescentes.
Según el historiador Winfried Schleiner, la enfermedad resultó tan conocida que se convirtió en un recurso de la sátira política, la literatura y el teatro de la época.
Las jóvenes con “enfermedad verde” despertaron no solo preocupación médica, sino también comentarios mordaces y bromas sobre su situación personal y social. La descripción más difundida incluía rostros pálidos y “corazón tembloroso ante el más pequeño esfuerzo”.

De acuerdo con National Institutes of Health, la denominación proviene del griego chloros, que significa amarillo verdoso, resaltando el aspecto pálido de las afectadas. Los médicos del siglo XVI, como Johann Lange y Rodrigo a Castro, interpretaron la dolencia vinculándola a desequilibrios de los “humores” y atribuyeron su causa a la retención de “sangre mala” por la falta de actividad sexual o por vasos sanguíneos demasiado estrechos.
Ante la imposibilidad de recomendar el matrimonio para todas las jóvenes, sugerían sangrías o enemas como tratamiento alternativo, especialmente en el caso de mujeres consagradas a la vida religiosa.
La enfermedad permaneció ligada a la feminidad durante generaciones. Sin embargo, algunas obras literarias extendieron el término, en clave de burla, a hombres que no bebían alcohol ni tenían experiencia amorosa. Estos usos evidenciaron la carga simbólica y social del diagnóstico mucho más allá de cualquier base fisiológica comprobada.

Helen King, citada por Schleiner, detectó que menciones a la “green sickness” aparecieron en manuales médicos hasta los años 1920. No obstante, el diagnóstico desapareció del repertorio de enfermedades reconocidas durante el siglo XX. Las razones de este abandono se vinculan tanto al cambio en las costumbres sociales como a la comprensión médica de los síntomas.
De acuerdo a diversas investigaciones, médicos de la época confundieron manifestaciones de anemias reales con nociones sociales y morales relacionadas con la virginidad. La medicina moderna identifica la anemia como una afección causada por deficiencias nutricionales, enfermedades crónicas u otros motivos, sin vincularla al estado civil o a cuestiones morales.
Algunas crónicas y versos satíricos, como los referidos al duque de Monmouth, reforzaron la idea de que solo el matrimonio o las relaciones sexuales podían “curar” la enfermedad en las jóvenes.
Así se profundizó la estigmatización social sobre las mujeres solteras o quienes no deseaban contraer matrimonio, catalogándolas de enfermas por su estado.
A lo largo del tiempo, la noción de “enfermedad verde” funcionó como un reflejo de los prejuicios y el desconocimiento científico sobre la salud de las mujeres adolescentes.
El diagnóstico reflejó la interacción de factores culturales, médicos y religiosos en una época donde el acceso al conocimiento médico era limitado y dominado por creencias heredadas de la Antigüedad.
Actualmente, no existe ninguna evidencia que vincule la falta de matrimonio con enfermedades hematológicas. La desaparición del término “green sickness” y su olvido en la medicina contemporánea muestran cómo los diagnósticos pueden estar más influidos por valores sociales que por la evidencia científica.
Según especialistas como Helen King y Winfried Schleiner, el estudio de “enfermedad verde” permite comprender cómo la sociedad interpretó los síntomas de jóvenes mujeres y cómo la ciencia evolucionó al dejar atrás los mitos y avanzar hacia una comprensión basada en datos verificables y observación clínica.
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Antifa agitation turns violent in Germany, bolstering Trump admin’s foreign terror label

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A mass protest on Saturday filled with many activists from the radical organization Antifa, which President Donald Trump designated as a domestic terrorist organization, delayed the start of a conference for the right-wing populist German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) youth wing called Generation Deutschland.
Between 25,000 and 30,000 protesters turned out against the AfD youth convention in the central German city of Giessen, prompting the largest police contingent (6,000 officers) in the history of the state of Hesse.
The AfD co-leader Alice Weidel blasted the demonstrators at the city’s convention center. «What is being done out there – dear left-wingers, dear extremists, you need to look at yourselves – is something that is deeply undemocratic.»
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Two demonstrators jump over a crash barrier while a water cannon is deployed. Several thousand demonstrators protested against the founding of a new AfD youth organization on Saturday. Its predecessor, Junge Alternative, which had been classified as right-wing extremist, had dissolved itself. (Hannes P Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
According to the Associated Press, officers used pepper spray after stones were thrown at them at one location, police said. They also used water cannons to clear a blockade by about 2,000 protesters after they ignored calls to leave. They did so again Saturday afternoon as a group tried to break through barriers toward the city’s convention center. Police said up to 6,000 officers were deployed, and 10 to 15 were slightly injured.
The former U.S. ambassador to Germany during the first administration, Richard Grenell, warned on X about the dangers of the anti-democratic left in the Federal Republic of Germany. He wrote:» The intolerant and violent Left is gaining ground in Germany. If they follow the U.S. left then they will promote deadly violence while also losing public support — and elections. But they won’t see the errors of their ways because the German left gets lots of support from the media in Germany. It’s publicly funded, too. The conservative media is small and timid — but growing fast.»
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Boris Rhein, the Christian Democratic Union governor of the state of Hesse, criticized the attacks on police and the attempt to torpedo the AfD youth event. «The use of violence and attempts to prevent assemblies through marches can never be democratic means,» said Rhein.
The AfD scored an impressive second place election result in February, securing 20.8% of the vote. However, the mainstream German parties refused to form a coalition with the AfD because of what they said were its extremist views.

Two demonstrators jump over a crash barrier while a water cannon is deployed. Several thousand demonstrators protested against the founding of a new AfD youth organization on Saturday. Its predecessor, Junge Alternative, which had been classified as right-wing extremist, had dissolved itself. (Hannes P Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
The youth division of the AfD elected 28-year-old Jean-Pascal Hohm as its chairman. According to an article in the German paper Die Welt, a local intelligence report quoted him as expressing anti-immigrant and nationalist views. «We will fight resolutely for a genuine shift in migration policy that ensures Germany remains the homeland of Germans, «Hohm said at the start of the conference.
The creation of Generation Deutschland unfolded after Germany’s federal intelligence agency classified the previous AfD youth chapter, Young Alternative, as an «extremist organization» in 2023, causing its dissolution.
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AfD portrays itself as an anti-establishment force at a time of low trust in politicians. It first entered the national parliament in 2017 following the arrival of large numbers of migrants in the mid-2010s. Curbing migration remains its signature theme, but it has shown a talent for capitalizing on discontent about other issues too. That was reflected in leaders’ confident tone Saturday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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