Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), a co-chair of the Congressional Jewish Caucus, said Tuesday that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed must go further to “publicly condemn” an antisemitic ad by an outside group supporting his campaign, arguing that his failure to do so belies his pledges to support the Jewish community.

The ad, by the Cenk Uygur-led Rebellion PAC, blames U.S. aid to Israel for high grocery prices in the United States. El-Sayed’s campaign emphasized in a Monday statement that it was not responsible for the ad and that Rebellion PAC doesn’t speak for El-Sayed, but some critics say that the Democratic nominee needs to explicitly denounce the ad’s contents, which he has not addressed.

“[T]he gross, antisemitic campaign ad by Rebellion PAC … has no place in American political discourse,” Schneider wrote on X. “[T]he ad is clearly supporting Dr. El-Sayed’s election, and neither he nor his campaign have publicly condemned it. The campaign needs to condemn the ad and call for it to be taken down.”

He added that he is “disappointed” that El-Sayed has not issued such a call, “especially as he is promising the Michigan Jewish community that he has their back. His refusal to act shows otherwise.”

Schneider argued that blaming U.S. support for Israel, a tiny fraction of the federal budget, “for the economic pain in the country is beyond the pale.”

He said that it “follows a long tradition, dating back more than 1,000 years, of dangerously scapegoating Jews for a country’s ills,” and that it continues a pattern including the pogroms and the Holocaust that has led to Jews being shunned, expelled and killed.

Schneider follows Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who co-chairs the House antisemitism task force, in calling El-Sayed’s comments to this point insufficient.

In the same statement, Schneider condemned President Donald Trump’s “vile, anti-Muslim attacks” on El-Sayed, and said that Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers “should forcefully denounce them.”

Trump, at a rally on Monday, called El-Sayed a “jihadist” who is “on the side of terrorists.”

He called Trump’s comments antithetical to President George Washington’s 1790 pledge to the Jewish community in Rhode Island that the United States would be a nation of religious freedom and toleration that would protect members of all faiths.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) also spoke out on Thursday, calling the ad a “divisive stunt that trades on age-old themes of antisemitism.”

“It blames Israel for all the ills in America,” she continued. “Serious people, who want to win in Michigan, are focused on lowering costs and ending President Trump’s corruption.”