Did Abdul El-Sayed give his victory speech in Arabic and Ilhan Omar address her party in Somali?

Abdul El-Sayed is the first Muslim senator in American history and won the Michigan Senate race.1

This is the plain fact the rest of the video is built on, and it holds. The Associated Press reports that El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan and will become the first Muslim American to serve in the U.S. Senate. The video's narrator says the same thing on camera. Because this is a reported election result rather than an interpretation, it is the easiest item in the whole clip to check and the least contestable: either he won or he did not, and the wire service says he did. It also explains why the clip exists at all — a first of this kind is news, and news invites commentary. Nothing in the evidence contradicts the video on this point, and the video's later claims lean on it being true.

El-Sayed called J.D. Vance 'habibi' and told Trump he could call him 'senator'.1

The AP quotes the speech directly: 'JD, habibi' and 'after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me senator.' This matters for a specific reason. It is the line the commentary plays as its proof that an American politician addressed the country in Arabic. What the quote actually shows is a single term of endearment, used in a joking jab at the vice president, inside an otherwise English speech. The claim as stated is accurate; the use the video makes of it is where the stretch sits. One direct quote from a wire service settles the factual question, and it happens to undercut the larger framing at the same time.

Incumbent Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar addressed her victory party in Somali.6

Here the video's wording is accurate without qualification. Reporting records that Omar, after winning Minnesota's 5th Congressional District with about 76 percent of the vote, spoke to her re-election party at Karmel Mall in Minneapolis and thanked voters in Somali. The footage the video inserts is credited to RT and matches those reports. Unlike the El-Sayed item, this is not a case of a few phrases inside an English speech — the Somali-language remarks are the thing being described. It is worth noting that we are relying on several outlets repeating the same account, including Fox News and the Daily Mail, rather than on one wire service alone, which strengthens the finding. That the remarks were in Somali is not disputed by anyone we found.

Aber Kawas became the first Palestinian elected in New York state.23

Kawas won New York State Senate District 12 in Queens, and both CNN and Middle East Eye describe her as the first Palestinian American elected to the New York State Legislature, with Middle East Eye adding that she is the first hijab-wearing member. Two outlets with different editorial leanings reaching the same description is meaningfully stronger than one. The video's phrasing — 'first Palestinian elected in New York state' — tracks the reporting closely. This is a checkable electoral first, and it checks out. Readers should note that the video pairs this true fact with contested material about Kawas, which is why a real claim can sit in a misleading package.

Kawas suggested that 9/11 was a result of America's capitalism, racism, white supremacy and Islamophobia.7

The clip is real, and the words are close, but 'result of' is the video's paraphrase, not hers. In a 2017 Asian American Writers' Workshop panel she spoke of systems of 'capitalism and racism and White supremacy… and Islamophobia' as a 'long trajectory' and said 'we're just seeing the manifestations of that continuation, right, with 9/11.' She linked 9/11 to those forces as a manifestation. She rejects the 'America deserved it' reading, calling the resurfaced clips cherry-picked and saying she was responding to demands that Muslims apologise for the attacks. So the underlying footage is genuine and the summary is in the right neighbourhood, but the causal wording sharpens what she said. The strongest evidence here is the quoted transcript itself, reported by a partisan outlet, which is why we treat the wording as established but the characterisation as contested.

Still open: We did not view the full unedited panel footage, only the quoted excerpts.

Kawas has been photographed with a Hamas headband.9

This is the weakest load-bearing item in the video and the one that most needs care. The allegation appears in partisan and activist sources — a PJ Media column and posts by an Israeli commentator — describing a headband with Arabic script as a 'Hamas headband'. We found no independent identification of the item, no confirmation of where or when a photo was taken, and no public response from Kawas in the sources we located. A description of an object by people already arguing a case is not the same as identifying that object. Readers should treat this as an unsupported assertion, not an established fact, and should notice that the video states it flatly, with no hedging and no attribution, in the middle of otherwise accurate material. One unverified claim sitting among true ones is a common pattern and a reason to slow down.

Still open: No image has been independently identified or dated, and Kawas has not publicly addressed the claim in the sources we found.

The Muslim Brotherhood's official website celebrated El-Sayed's primary win under the headline 'Abdul conquers the Zionists'.8

Ikhwan Online, which its own X account describes as the Muslim Brotherhood's official website, published an article in August titled 'Abdul Rahman al-Sayyid conquers the Zionists and runs for the Senate' after El-Sayed's primary win over Haley Stevens. The reporting, however, originates with Republican and conservative outlets — an NRSC press release reprinting The Midwesterner, and the Free Beacon — and rests on a machine translation of the Arabic headline. That does not make it false; the article appears to exist, and the headline is quoted consistently. But it means the sourcing runs through one political direction, and no independent Arabic-language outlet we found confirmed the exact English rendering. We rate it likely true rather than true for that reason: credible, but not independently corroborated from a second direction. The precise wording in English is the part readers should hold loosely.

Still open: No independent Arabic-language confirmation of the exact English translation was located.

Iran's supreme leader posted that the process of America's collapse 'has accelerated'.45

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei posted 'The process of the US's collapse has accelerated' on 4 November 2026, the morning after the U.S. midterms, on an official English-language account on X. Fox News and The Guardian both quote the post, and reporting adds that he separately called the U.S. 'the Great Satan' and described its decline as irreversible. Two outlets from opposite sides of the political spectrum reproducing the same sentence is about as clean as corroboration gets for a social media post. The video's quotation is accurate. What the video adds is interpretation — that the timing is 'not a coincidence' — which is the presenter's inference, not something the post itself establishes.

Voters were frustrated by inflation, gas prices and the war in Iran.4

This is the video's concession to the other side, and it is supported. Reporting after the midterms records record gasoline prices around $4.17 a gallon and heavy voter dissatisfaction with the eight-month war with Iran — a war Vice President JD Vance himself called the reason Republicans lost. The claim matters because it is the hinge on which the video's argument turns: the presenter accepts that voters had real grievances, then argues that electing these particular lawmakers is something different from ordinary frustration. The factual half of that hinge holds. The second half is opinion. Readers should notice how a clip can be scrupulous about background facts and still use them to steer a conclusion.