El-Sayed’s half sister offered Oct 7 ‘blessing,’ one year after Hamas attack: ‘Allahu Akbar’

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Eman Abdelhadi, the half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, delivers an "October 7th blessing" one year after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel. (@rabbis4ceasefire via Instagram) University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi, the half sister of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, delivered an "October 7th blessing," one year after Hamas militants killed approximately 1,200 people in widespread terrorist attacks. "I want to say, Allahu Akbar," Abdelhadi said, opening her blessing in a video posted to Instagram Oct. 7, 2024. "That phrase means God is greater, and it's an important phrase in the Muslim tradition. "It's one that I've been thinking about a lot over the last year, because it's a phrase that reminds us that no matter how great the brutality, the oppression, the intensity of what we're going throug