Racist Cartoonists Can't Decide How to Smear El-Sayed

Racist Cartoonists Can't Decide How to Smear El-Sayed

Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed

Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed

Hank Kennedy FAIR Political cartoons commenting on Michigan’s 2026 US Senate race have been dominated by a torrent of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism directed at Democratic nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, an Arab-American Muslim. These caricatures do not come out of nowhere, of course, but reflect the poisonous atmosphere of the campaign against El-Sayed—with slurs coming […]

Is El-Sayed a Jihadist? A Commie? Right-Wing Cartoonists Can’t Decide

For right-wing cartoonists there are inevitable conclusions: If a politician is of the Muslim faith that person is a jihadist. If an officeholder or prospective legislator is a self-proclaimed socialist that equals being a Communist. Really scary for them is if that person was born in The United States and so could rise to the […]