An Open Letter to the People of Michigan from actor Rob Schneider
Dear Michiganders,
A hundred years ago, your state’s most famous citizen, Henry Ford, was the only American Adolf Hitler praised by name in Mein Kampf.
Hitler wrote that the Jews were becoming the controlling masters of American industry, and that only one great man, Ford, still held out independently.
Ford then spent his own fortune publishing The Dearborn Independent, a monthly antisemitic newspaper he distributed to his workers and dealerships — a hate-filled rant against the Jewish people dressed up as journalism. Michigan’s most celebrated industrialist was, by his own hand, an engine of Jew-hatred.
Now, a century later, Michigan has elected Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate — and the pattern has not broken. It has evolved.
El-Sayed’s family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are not rumor. They are in his own family’s words. His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, posted publicly in 2012: “My family has long been MB.” A year later: “I have had family jailed for being a part of it.”
Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, was active in the Brotherhood during her college years in Egypt in the early seventies. Elkomy also worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency — an organization the U.S. Treasury designated for providing direct financial support to al-Qaeda and the Hamas terrorist group. That group later pleaded guilty to transferring over a million dollars to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
El-Sayed’s father, Mohammed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development — a charity the FBI raided, that settled $780,000 with federal regulators for knowingly funneling cash to Saddam’s regime in violation of U.S. sanctions, and whose board members are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in federal prosecutors’ own documents.
His father-in-law served on that same board and on the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that convicted men of sending $12 million to Hamas.
When asked on national television whether he or their family had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, El-Sayed said, flatly: “No.” Twice. This is the man Michigan chose. Not despite this record — with it.
And what did he say about Jews? After a terrorist rammed his vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield and tried to burn it down with preschoolers inside, El-Sayed condemned the attack — then added that the attacker was a “hurt” man whose family had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. “Hurt people hurt people.” He later called it a mistake.
But the instinct was there, and it was the same instinct that produced his campaign’s rhetoric: calling Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide, opposing even defensive aid like the Iron Dome, and running alongside a streamer who warned that American Jews supporting Israel would eventually face consequences at home.
October 7th was carried out by the Hamas terrorist group — the mass rape and murder of Jewish women, the murder of Jewish babies and children, and the kidnapping of over 250 Israelis. Scale that to America’s population and you are talking about 40,000 Americans slaughtered and thousands more dragged into tunnels.
Yet in Michigan — in Detroit, in Dearborn, across this state — there were no parades for the victims. There were organized marches against Israel.
That is not foreign policy disagreement. That is selective grief, and it has a name: antisemitism.
If El-Sayed had said about Black Americans or gay Americans what he has said about Jews, he would be barred from every ballot in this country.
Instead, the Democratic Party platformed him, funded him, and celebrated him. Michigan voters put him in the highest office this state can send to Washington. That is not a policy dispute. That is an abomination in biblical proportions — and the Bible is clear about nations that turn against Israel.
Joel chapter three, verse two: “I will judge all the nations and establish my right over them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have divided up my land.”
In his victory speech, El-Sayed told his opponent, Mike Rogers: “May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again.” Ominous. Telling. The language of a man who does not see political opponents as fellow citizens but as enemies to be erased.
This is the darkest day in Michigan’s modern history, and it should frighten every American — because what Michigan tolerates today, the rest of the country is being groomed to accept tomorrow. The Democratic Party’s continued slide from the left to the violent left to the terrorist left is not a regional quirk. It is a national warning.
I will do my part. I will boycott Michigan. I will never perform in this state again while this terrorist-supporting Senator holds office. I will never board a plane that lands there. I will take no work connected to the state of Michigan. And I call on the Detroit Tigers, the Detroit Red Wings, the Detroit Pistons, and the Detroit Lions to make a public statement against antisemitism — because silence now is complicity later.
To the people of Michigan: you still have a choice. Stand up. Speak out. Reject this. Your state’s most famous citizen once taught the world how to hate Jews. You do not have to let his successor teach it again.
Rob Schneider
SOURCES
1. Hitler, Mein Kampf, standard English translation — the passage praising Ford as “one great man.”
2. Eman Abdelhadi public posts, 2012 and 2013 — “My family has long been MB” and “I have had family jailed for being a part of it.”
3. Fatten Elkomy’s Muslim Brotherhood activity in Egypt, early 1970s — documented in family interviews and profiles.
4. U.S. Treasury designation of the Islamic American Relief Agency — providing material support to al-Qaeda and Hamas; guilty plea on over one million dollars to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
5. Life for Relief and Development — FBI raid, $780,000 settlement with federal regulators over sanctions violations, board links to the Muslim Brotherhood in federal prosecutors’ documents.
6. Islamic Society of North America — unindicted co-conspirator designation in the Holy Land Foundation trial; $12 million sent to Hamas.
7. Holy Land Foundation trial — convictions for funneling funds to Hamas.
8. Temple Israel, West Bloomfield attack — vehicle ramming and arson attempt at a synagogue with a preschool.
9. El-Sayed campaign statements calling Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide and opposing Iron Dome aid.
10. El-Sayed victory speech remarks directed at Mike Rogers.
