Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed linked to arrested radical professor half-sister

Abdul El-Sayed, a socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, is facing fresh attention because his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, was taken into custody on felony charges following an anti-ICE riot near Chicago. Abdelhadi, an associate professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development, has been a frequent figure in radical activist circles and has spoken on the far-left podcast Movement Memos.

On Oct. 3 she was charged with two counts of aggravated battery against a state trooper and two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing peace after allegedly spitting on the officer. The incident occurred during protests outside the Broadview ICE detention facility, which she has described as “terrorizing” the local community. Abdelhadi’s mother, Fatten Elkomy, a psychiatric nurse practitioner living in Missouri, is also the mother of El-Sayed, who was raised in the Detroit suburbs. Despite the arrest, the University of Chicago has not terminated her employment, and the Cook County Clerk of Court has not yet released an update on the case’s status.