ASRA NOMANI: El-Sayed glides into role as rock star of the hard left's red-green alliance
A man jumped out of the front passenger seat and opened the rear door, from which El-Sayed emerged for an appearance at the Arab America Foundation's "CONNECT Empowerment Summit," hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose leaders had supported his election.
Key points
- They were among activists and representatives of organizations from different ideological traditions that have converged around El-Sayed — part of what Fox News Digital has examined as a "red-green" network linking elements of the socialist and communist hard-left with Muslim and Arab advocacy organizations.
- — Three days after Abdul El-Sayed won a historic election as America's first Muslim senator, a driver navigating a black luxury GMC Yukon Denali SUV pulled into a parking space beside a side security entrance of an upscale Marriott conference center here in this suburb of Washington, D.C., at 7:39 p.m.
- Their presence put figures from different wings of the political coalition around El-Sayed in the same room: activists from the socialist, pro-communist Left….
Nearby, Benjamin's husband and fellow CodePink activist, Tighe Barry, wore a traditional Chinese jacket under a khaki Mao-style cap emblazoned with a five-point star associated with communist iconography.
Additional details
- As the man extended an arm to shield El-Sayed, the senator-elect dipped out of the SUV, slipping on a jacket as he climbed the steps toward the entrance.
- The Democratic Party's newly minted rock star had arrived, in more ways than one.
- CodePink is a pro-communist, pro-China nonprofit funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born, Shanghai-based tycoon whose financing of left-wing nonprofits has drawn congressional and prosecutorial scrutiny.
- His political rise has been supported by prominent anti-Israel activists including Linda Sarsour and left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who has called Hamas "1,000 times better" than Israel, a remark he later described as intentionally provocative.
- Along the far corner of the ballroom, a collection of gifts for a fundraiser included a handcrafted wooden "silhouette of Palestine, painted in the iconic colors of the Palestinian flag" by artist Hasan Munem.
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