American change
ON the Sunday before Election Day in the US, the Democratic leadership was in uproar. The reason was Israel — though not obviously so. The action took place in Detroit, Michigan, where Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed was in a close race against Republican Mike Rogers. Rogers had run a campaign marked by Islamophobic attacks on El-Sayed’s Muslim faith, portraying him as a security threat and making unfounded allegations of extremist sympathies. In the primary election that decided the Democratic nominee, El-Sayed had defeated Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who had said she “dreamed of Israel