A University of Chicago professor, Eman Abdelhadi, was shown in an Instagram video delivering what she called an “October 7th blessing” a year after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Fox News highlighted that Abdelhadi is the half-sister of Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan, linking the video to scrutiny of his political campaign.

The article says Abdelhadi opened the blessing by saying “Allahu Akbar”. It places the video in the context of the 7 October 2023 attacks, in which Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people in Israel, while providing no response from Abdelhadi or El-Sayed in the supplied text.