Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.

Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for Donald Trump’s backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she was uninvited to a joint event the same day with El-Sayed, who defeated the congresswoman by a slim margin in the August primary.

“Our Democratic nominee for Senate said I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said video announcing the endorsement. “And he’s right. And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”

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    1: Not real history.

    2: Judaism is the result of the Canaanite cult of El, favored among the rural hill peoples in contrast to the main Canaanite coastal trade cities of the Levantine, conquering those coastal cities after the Bronze Age collapse.

    The religion should properly be called Phoenician imo, the point of calling it Canaanite is to delegitimize it and obfuscate the history.

    tl;dr “Jews” and Palestinians are the same people, the returning Zionists are descendants of their diaspora.

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          They can’t be challenged. It’s their closely held religious belief that gives them meaning and purpose: No one is allowed to question it at all.

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            They don’t need to change their minds, they and others just need to not be under the impression that they’re free to imagine whatever reality they want.

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      gestures broadly

      So your telling me all this is because some ancient Levantine hillbillies?

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      Are they the descendents of the diaspora? The original Israelites are long extinct and gone and any surviving genetics are so watered down that it would be absurd to call themselves the same. It’s just the religious tradition that survives.