El-Sayed distances himself from Hasan Piker as Jewish Democrats question his Israel stance
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If not necessarily a sharp pivot, El-Sayed’s words, coming from a strident Israel critic in his own right, still represented an acknowledgement that his biggest campaign surrogate poses problems.