Just as a Jewish candidate shouldn’t be held personally responsible for the genocidal policies of the Netanyahu regime, so too Abdul shouldn’t be held responsible for a YTY ad. We’d call out the racism of the former position, why then call the later a “virulently held position”?

But you do hold Jewish candidates responsible for the policies of the Netanyahu regime if they don't denounce them. Right? I mean, not just Jewish candidates - all candidates. That's why Uncommitted didn't endorse Harris. She wasn't forceful enough in denouncing something that they felt was necessary for a candidate to denounce. If a candidate isn't willing to take a stance against something that you believe is reprehensible, you're not going to support them.

This is not that unusual in modern politics, with the rise of independent PACs doing massive advertising outside of the candidate's campaign. Those PACs will sometimes put out an ad that goes really far, and sometimes too far. And the candidate is often called on to denounce/disavow the ad, or takes a lot of heat for not doing so. That just happened in Ohio.

El-Sayed isn't being called upon to denounce the ad because he's Muslim, but because he's the candidate and the ad was introduced in support of his campaign.