NEW: Abdul El-Sayed Campaigner Admits To Highly Illegal Practices In Shock Undercover Recording

The Michigan Democratic Party has fired a field organizer caught on undercover video claiming overseas money was flowing to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and saying the candidate risked losing supporters if he rejected Hamas.

The party said the organizer’s “claims are categorically false.” O’Keefe Media Group, which released the recording, identified him as Abdoul Beckwith, a regional field organizer working to elect El-Sayed.

Discussing campaign money, Beckwith claimed, “You know, he [Abdul El Sayed] has people from overseas that donate to him.”

When asked whether those donations were allowed, he answered, “No, it is not allowed,” then described a hypothetical arrangement in which money would pass through a family member.

“And then people overseas give money to him. And then he gives money to you. It’s that type of thing,” he said, adding, “Everybody does it!”

Beckwith’s claims do not establish that El-Sayed accepted illegal contributions. Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from donating directly or funneling contributions through intermediaries, but U.S. citizens living abroad and lawful permanent residents can legally contribute.

The organizer also portrayed El-Sayed as politically dependent on supporters who could turn against him over a denunciation of Hamas.

“He [Abdul El Sayed] can’t just say, you know, no, I don’t support Hamas, you know, I reject all of them, because he’s going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place,” Beckwith said.

“He [El-Sayed] has to play the game. He has to play the role.”

Beckwith made a similar argument about the Muslim Brotherhood, suggesting that condemning the organization would cost El-Sayed support among Muslims.

“So that’s the whole thing. So when Abdul is going to denounce that [Muslim Brotherhood], they’re [Muslims] going to think that he is siding with the genociders,” he said.

His remarks come amid renewed scrutiny of a declaration supporting Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-aligned president, Mohamed Morsi, that El-Sayed reportedly signed in November 2012.

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“You know, he [Abdul El-Sayed] has people from overseas that donate to him…No it is not allowed.”

“He [Abdul El Sayed] can’t just say, you know, no, I don’t support Hamas, you know, I reject all of them, because he’s going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place.”

@AbdulElSayed @MikeRogersForMI

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 19, 2026

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The Washington Free Beacon identified El-Sayed as a signatory to the statement, which urged Morsi to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.”

The document names “Dr. Abdul Rahman El-Sayed” of New York as its 33rd signatory. The Free Beacon reported that it confirmed the signer was El-Sayed. The declaration also expressed concerns about Morsi’s expanded authority and called for those powers to expire once the constitution was completed.

A 2012 review by the Committee to Protect Journalists documented a crackdown on critical reporting, with at least six journalists facing charges of “insulting the president” or “insulting Islam.” That review did not establish a connection between the declaration and the crackdown.

The Free Beacon also cited a 2011 piece in which El-Sayed defended the Muslim Brotherhood against comparisons with Iran and Hamas.

Elsewhere in the undercover recording, Beckwith accused white and Jewish people around El-Sayed of exerting influence over him.

“There’s a lot of white people around him [El-Sayed]. A lot of Jewish people around him. And when you’re around a certain group of people for so long, you absorb the ideology, the mannerisms, everything like that,” he said.

“They’re [Whites & Jews] going to hijack him, and then in a year he’s going to be doing what they want with him.”

Asked whether El-Sayed could abandon his promises, Beckwith answered, “I think, yeah.”

Beckwith also claimed without evidence that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democratic candidate for governor, “works for the KKK.”

“She works for the KKK. For the Ku Klux Klan.”

Separate reporting has examined the backgrounds of El-Sayed’s relatives, including his father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku.

According to the Free Beacon, Jukaku served on the Islamic Society of North America’s founding committee and led CAIR-Michigan from 2005 to 2010. Both organizations were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas-financing case. Neither was charged.

Jukaku contributed $300,000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, which supports El-Sayed, through three donations made Feb. 3, March 31 and June 22, the Free Beacon reported July 17, citing federal campaign finance records.

El-Sayed’s biological mother, Fatten Fathy Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency. The Treasury Department designated the IARA network in 2004, citing support for Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Hamas. Her employment does not establish that she personally participated in terrorism.

The New York Post has also reported statements attributed to El-Sayed’s half-sister describing their mother’s involvement in Muslim Brotherhood activism in Egypt during the 1970s.

El-Sayed has denied that he or his family have ties to the organization.

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