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| Round-up: The El-Sayed effect: How Jews and Israel are factoring into Michigan’s primaries |
| 2026-08-01 |
All from the Times of Israel: Doctor’ Adbul El-Sayed’s Longtime Aide Sold Shady Brain Pills in ‘Pyramid Scheme,’ Falsely Claimed Pills Treat Alzheimer’s DiseaseEl-Sayed, the Michigan Democrat, has made criticizing 'snake oil salesmen' and medical misinformation central to his Senate campaign. The operations director of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign and his longest-serving aide previously peddled sham brain pills for a multi-level marketing company that customers and federal regulators called a pyramid scheme. The aide, Tara Terpstra, would go on to work for El-Sayed, who calls himself a doctor and has railed against "snake oil salesmen" who "sell people shit they don’t need." Terpstra, whom El-Sayed first hired in 2016 at the Detroit Health Department, previously worked as an independent distributor for Nerium, the alleged "pyramid scheme." Terpstra, who now works for El-Sayed’s Senate campaign, promoted Nerium’s products, including a coffee extract called EHT that she billed in a July 2015 post as a "cutting edge…age-defying supplement" that could be used as an "Alzheimer’s treatment" and other neurocognitive conditions. Abdul El-Sayed Headlined Luxury Fundraising Cruises for Islamic Charity Linked to Muslim Brotherhood One of the Islamic Relief USA 'Cruise for a Cause' events took place aboard the Nautical Empress, 'one of New York Harbor's most impressive private charter yachts' El-Sayed promoted the $100-a-head events on his Facebook page, writing that he was "proud to be joining Islamic Relief USA" for a "cruise" to "celebrate and help support their work." He spoke at the New York City and Washington, D.C., cruises alongside the Dearborn-based activist Amer Zahr, who expressed solidarity with Hamas and Hezbollah during a 2017 rally, telling residents of Dearborn, Mich., "whether it's called Hamas, whether it's called Hezbollah, we stand with everybody who stands against the Israeli occupation." Four years later, in a social media video, Zahr took aim at "all the activists and leaders out there that are condemning antisemitism and condemning terrorism right now," saying, "Stop it! Stop! You are not helping." AIPAC features as key topic at last Democratic debate before Michigan primary vote Haley Stevens dodges repeated questions about her relationship to the pro-Israel lobbying group, as her rival Abdul El-Sayed continues to make its spending on the race a top issue. Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan accuses anti-Israel rival of scapegoating Jews Haley Stevens says Abdul El-Sayed is blaming all his ‘problems on Jewish Americans,’ as he launches fresh broadside at AIPAC days before the primary vote. |
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