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Adam Hamawy\u2019s campaign headquarters is in a suburban New Jersey office center, down the hall from Princeton Plastic Surgeons, his practice that offers everything from eyelid surgery to Brazilian butt lifts. When I walked in, the only immediate clue that the doctor there had just won a much-contested congressional primary was a small cluster of campaign posters bearing his name behind the check-in desk.<\/p>\n

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Hamawy led me through the polished medical half of the office to a room around the corner with a conference table and a messy whiteboard with leftover green-marker notes from the primary. He called it \u201cthe engine room.\u201d \u201cThis place was packed with people pulling their hair, and potato chips and some old pizza,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s so quiet now.\u201d The campaign is in recovery mode before the general election in November, which he is heavily favored to win.<\/p>\n

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Hamawy is a former Army combat surgeon who served in Iraq. There\u2019s military memorabilia all around the office, including an aerial image of the air base at Balad where he worked. In the race he just won, he ran as a progressive on positions that play well in Jersey\u2019s comfortably blue 12th<\/sup> Congressional District, like Medicare for all and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But a few months ago, he was virtually unknown. In a diverse district with a slew of candidates, a Muslim plastic surgeon with no name recognition shouldn\u2019t have won. But Hamawy did\u2014and one issue seems to have made the difference.<\/p>\n

For the past several years, the safest advice in Democratic politics has been to talk about anything other than Gaza. Talk about affordability. Talk about healthcare. Talk about housing. Talk about Donald Trump. Talk about human rights, sure, but if it came to Gaza and Israel, widen the frame to something universal and move on quickly. This position became so common that it even has a nickname: PEP, or \u201cprogressive except Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

I saw this phenomenon up close. At the Democratic National Convention in 2024, I watched national party leaders embody PEP to perfection. Even when uncommitted delegates arrived in Chicago representing hundreds of thousands of protest voters furious over the Biden administration\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s increasingly unpopular war in Gaza, Democrats didn\u2019t budge. The uncommitted delegates asked for a Palestinian speaker and, at a minimum, to be treated as part of the coalition. By the end of the week, many of them felt they had been ignored.<\/p>\n

The PEP posture made some political sense. To focus on Gaza risked alienating moderates and some reliably pro-Israel Democrats. Even as polling has started to show Democratic voters becoming sharply more critical of Israel and more sympathetic to Palestinians\u2014as many as 8 in 10 now hold an unfavorable view of Israel\u2014the party continued to stick to Biden\u2019s firmly pro-Israel position as it headed into the presidential election. And then, after the excruciating loss, the Democratic National Committee\u2019s \u201cautopsy\u201d of the 2024 election infamously didn\u2019t mention the words Israel<\/em> or Gaza<\/em> at all. In her book published in late 2025, though, Kamala Harris called Biden\u2019s lack of empathy for Palestinians \u201cinadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 midterms might just be different. Recent Democratic primaries in New York anointed three Zohran Mamdani\u2013backed leftist challengers for Congress, all of whom made the United States\u2019 support of Israel\u2019s military front-and-center issues. In New York\u2019s 10th<\/sup> Congressional District, Brad Lander\u2019s win over the otherwise politically similar Dan Goldman seemed centered almost entirely on the issue.<\/p>\n

An even stronger case study exists one state over, where Hamawy, who not long ago returned from a medical mission to the Gaza Strip, managed to clear the field in his crowded Democratic primary in part by focusing directly on Gaza. He spent months going to Congress and sharing his firsthand accounts and photos of what he saw while working there, leaving rooms in tears. When he decided to run for Congress himself, he spoke in no uncertain terms about genocide and U.S. \u201cbombs killing kids.\u201d On the other side of his primary, it seems that Hamawy\u2019s unapologetic stance on Gaza will in all likelihood send him to Congress.<\/p>\n

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates. In Hamawy\u2019s case, it led to suspicions about his past and true motives that was effective enough for his eventual primary win to be deemed \u201ccontroversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Egypt, Hamawy, 56, grew up in Old Bridge, New Jersey, where he arrived as a baby. The state\u2019s now-thriving Muslim community was still developing at the time. He told me that during his childhood, Eid prayers were sometimes held in hotel ballrooms because mosques were too few and too small.<\/p>\n

To his mother\u2019s delight, he decided he wanted to be a doctor at age 4, after envisioning the doctor who treated his broken arm in Jersey City Hospital as \u201can angel.\u201d To his mother\u2019s dismay, he joined the Army ROTC at Rutgers University in the \u201980s after a recruiter invited him and other students to rappel off some local cliffs. He had been in Boy Scouts and had an appetite for adventure, but it was the prospect of having his college paid for that sealed the deal.<\/p>\n

Over the next few years, he completed medical school and a seven-year general surgery residency while delaying his enrollment in the Army. By the time he got to the Basic Officer Leader Course in 2003, he arrived as a major, surrounded mostly by junior officers. A year later, after board certification, he was in Iraq, working in combat support hospitals in Balad, Baghdad, and Babylon ( \u201call the Bs,\u201d as he put it). He couldn\u2019t put a number to the amount of people he treated, which included U.S. soldiers, Iraqis, contractors, and journalists. \u201cHundreds,\u201d he said. \u201cThe experience that I got there, you cannot get anywhere else. To this day, when people see me operate, they think I\u2019m always calm, even though inside I might not be. There\u2019s nothing that fazes me.\u201d He even was part of the team that saved Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an anecdote that took off during his campaign.<\/p>\n

His move into being a plastic and reconstructive surgeon came after he noticed how few of them there were in the Army. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about saving their life,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s putting them back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s partly what brought him to Gaza. As a medical student, Hamawy had gone to Bosnia, flying into Sarajevo on a white U.N. plane while the city was under siege. After Iraq, he kept volunteering in disaster zones and conflict zones\u2014Haiti, Belize, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, the Syrian border, the West Bank. He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States. \u201cAll the things that suck about medicine here, it\u2019s eliminated,\u201d he told me. \u201cThere\u2019s no bureaucracy. I see you. You need this. Can I do it or not? I can, let\u2019s take care of it. All the red tape is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a while, that was his rhythm: Parachute into the most devastated places on Earth, save lives, return to his practice in New Jersey, repeat. But after one trip to Gaza, he said he was forever changed. It was carnage like he had never seen before\u2014even with all of that experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw children come in every day blown apart, missing limbs, orphaned. I saw families coming in huge numbers,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see your children in those kids\u2014when you\u2019re taking care of a 12-year-old and you have a 12-year-old, or a little girl and you have a little girl. In medicine, you compartmentalize. But when you go to someplace like Gaza, you get overwhelmed. You can only compartmentalize so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he came back to his civilian practice in New Jersey, he said he could barely sleep. \u201cThere are very few people who have seen what I\u2019ve seen, other than the doctors and nurses who went with me. Journalists from the outside world aren\u2019t allowed in,\u201d he said. \u201cI was in hospitals being shaken by bombs falling around us\u2014bombs that I am funding with my tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Hamawy was in Gaza, Israel seized and closed the Rafah crossing. When his team tried to rotate out after its two-week mission, they were denied permission. For eight days, he and the other volunteer doctors were trapped at Gaza European Hospital near Khan Younis as bombs rained down around them. One of the people pushing for his release was Duckworth. When only the Americans were granted permission to evacuate, Hamawy refused to go. \u201cOur team wanted to leave together, just like we came in together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When Hamawy and his full team did make it home, he went to Washington to thank Duckworth and several other senators who helped them get out, including fellow Jerseyite Cory Booker. He wanted them to understand that the wounds he treated were not separate from congressional votes, weapons transfers, and the money the United States continued to send. He urged them to end the supply of weapons to Israel and to allow patients to come to the United States for treatment. But he quickly realized that he could only effect so much change. \u201cI think we got a lot more support from the staffers than the members of Congress. But many of them were afraid to vote a certain way,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of them are getting obviously paid by AIPAC to think a certain way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went back to Washington repeatedly\u2014to the White House to brief the National Security Council, to testify at the United Nations and the State Department, taking as many meetings as possible, though not a single Republican would meet with him. He stopped bringing photographs because he felt the images could be overwhelming. The reaction was emotional, he recalls, but even among Democrats, he saw stark limits.<\/p>\n

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That experience set him on the course that led him to his victory on New Jersey primary night in June. \u201cIt\u2019s not only about advocating for people in Gaza. It\u2019s about advocating for my neighbors, my patients, and everyone here at home,\u201d he said. \u201cWe always have enough money for bombs. Here at home, our healthcare system is falling apart. Our education system is falling apart. Our infrastructure is falling apart. The economy is rigged for billionaires and corporations, and people are falling behind every day. Seeing those realities together pushed me to act.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story became central to his campaign, a staple of speeches, and in the end, a crucial linchpin for his financial support. He received $2 million in backing from a new pro-Palestinian super PAC designed to counter the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It helped him take a lead over 12 other Democrats in a district with many different demographics, including a strong Jewish base. But with that momentum also came something else.<\/p>\n

In what would likely be the first time many voters outside New Jersey heard his name, reports surfaced late in the campaign of Hamawy\u2019s past association with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric better known as \u201cthe Blind Sheikh.\u201d Abdel-Rahman lived and preached in New Jersey before he was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy in relation to the first bombing of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

Hamawy had spent time around Abdel-Rahman in the early 1990s, during the gap between graduating from Rutgers and starting medical school. He traveled in a van with Abdel-Rahman and Emad Salem, the government informant who later became a key witness in the federal case against Abdel-Rahman. Hamawy had helped Abdel-Rahman translate a fax from Egypt and had been to the cleric\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n

During Abdel-Rahman\u2019s trial, Hamawy was called by defense lawyers to testify in his favor. He essentially did so, though on the stand, he also said, \u201cOf course, that\u2019s what he always talked about. He talked about jihad.\u201d Abdel-Rahman was convicted and sentenced to life. He died in 2017. Hamawy was never accused of anything in connection to the case.<\/p>\n

This issue became the principal argument against his candidacy as it became clear that Hamawy was going to likely clinch the nomination. Andrew McCarthy, the lead prosecutor in Abdel-Rahman\u2019s trial, wrote that Hamawy had been a \u201csympathizer.\u201d Michael Mukasey, the federal judge who oversaw the case and later became attorney general, described Hamawy as \u201cmore than a casual traveling companion.\u201d Some of Hamawy\u2019s Democratic opponents treated the association as a character question, arguing that voters had a right to ask whether this disqualified him from representing them in Congress.<\/p>\n

When I asked Hamawy about the connection, he acknowledged it, but dismissed its relevance. He said that his role had been inflated into something it was not, and focused largely on the investigation, not on the relationship. \u201cIt was such a small part of my life. I played such a small role in that trial,\u201d he said. \u201cI was in the military during that time, before that time, and after that time. I did my civic duty in court. I was there for about 15 or 20 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamawy has said he condemns Abdel-Rahman\u2019s violent rhetoric and actions and that he had no contact with the cleric after his arrest. But the old association gave his critics a way to fold his past into his present\u2014his criticism of Israel, his Muslim identity\u2014and paint him as an extremist, a familiar dynamic in other 2026 races currently playing out.<\/p>\n

Hamawy is now preparing for the general election, and by all accounts, it should be an easy win for him\u2014the district votes reliably for Democrats by a margin of +13. He knows that he will have to deal with conversation around his relationship with Abdel-Rahman, but that is not actually the thing that concerns him the most. Instead, he\u2019s worried about people only seeing the Gaza part of his message.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey try to make the story like you\u2019re a one-issue candidate,\u201d he said. But he\u2019s running for office with much greater ambitions. \u201cMy platform is that we should not be funding a genocide, but we should be spending on healthcare here at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

I understood his point. But I also saw what inspired his voters\u2014and that was what he did with the brutality he witnessed in Gaza. This was most evident when I attended a watch party his campaign organized for the World Cup at a Yemeni coffee shop. The U.S. was playing Australia, and the room had the loose, multilingual feel of soccer in New Jersey. People drifted between tables with their hot drinks and plates of food. Fans wore the jerseys for their favorite teams: Morocco, France, Egypt. Hamawy wore the waving red-striped U.S. kit, a newly minted politician\u2019s choice if I\u2019ve ever seen one.<\/p>\n

He did not work the room all that much. People stopped him for photos and pulled him into side conversations, but he mostly focused on the game.<\/p>\n

Around the room, I asked his supporters what attracted them to Hamawy\u2019s campaign, and what this early victory means to them. Jennifer Cohan, a Princeton voter, told me she first learned about Hamawy through an email from a friend. She had been undecided in the primary until she read about his background. \u201cI was familiar with the surgeons that had gone to Gaza and had testified,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then I put two and two together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elijah Dixon had run in the same primary before dropping out and backing Hamawy. He first heard about him when potential supporters told him they were already preparing to support Hamawy, and he decided he should too. When Dixon knocked on doors and helped phone-bank, he told me the Blind Sheikh attacks did not come up, but Gaza did. \u201cPeople are not supporting our tax dollars going over to fund the destruction of generations of families,\u201d he said. Hamawy \u201cdid not shy away from that, and it resonated with the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omayma Mansour said she\u2019s known Hamawy\u2019s family for decades. Their mothers were friends. She called him \u201cthe guinea pig of our community,\u201d because no one knew at the start whether a Muslim candidate could make it as far as he did, especially in a district of people with so many different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

When Hamawy got stuck in Gaza, Mansour and other locals took it upon themselves to reach out to their elected officials. \u201dWe just at that time kind of realized how dangerous that this moment was. I mean, he could have never come out. He has four children.\u201d She laughed recalling how Hamawy returned to Gaza on another medical mission after all of her efforts to help get him out. It was when he came back again that he told his close friends and family that he\u2019d decided to run.<\/p>\n

Eman El-Badawi, a local elected official in Cranbury, had not known Hamawy before the campaign. She told me she had been living with the heaviness many Muslims and Arabs have felt since Gaza. She was less interested in Hamawy as a symbol than as a model for her children. She has six of them, ranging from young children to young adults, and wants them to witness a Muslim candidate take the attacks, refuse to retreat, and win. \u201cI\u2019m happy for us,\u201d she said, \u201cNot just us as Muslims. He is the right fit for New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time I left the watch party, the old Democratic advice felt even stranger than it ever had. For years, candidates were told to move away from Gaza as quickly as possible. Hamawy moved toward it. He insists Gaza may not be his whole platform, but it was the place where the rest of his platform\u2014 healthcare, ICE, the cost of living\u2014became credible.<\/p>\n

The harder question is what Hamawy will do with the win once he gets to Washington. He ran because he came to believe that witnessing was not enough, that telling powerful people what he had seen could move them without changing what they did. Congress will test whether holding power feels any different. And his victory leaves the national Democratic Party with a question of its own: whether it sees Hamawy as a lesson worth learning from, or an exception it can safely explain away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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