Senator Elect Abdul Mohammed El Sayed has been front and center of the news cycle following the Democratic Party’s stunning comprehensive repudiation of the Trump regime in the midterm elections. His election result in a seat previously held by Democrats pales in significance in comparison to the wins in the Southern states. However there are plenty of reasons for his recognition. He is exceptionally charismatic, highly intelligent, eloquent and is the first Muslim to be elected a Senator in the United States. But to put it at its kindest he is not without controversy. He is the most prominent anti Zionist voice in America. He simply does not believe that Israel should exist. Jay H.Ell will weigh in as to whether his position is just hypocritical as some critics might argue or plain right antisemitic.
Not to be repetitive as to previous commentary please see Blog of August 12, 2026, “The Democratic Tea Party”. (It can be found on the archive to the right). Much has surfaced since Dr. El Sayed's victory in Michigan that merits further examination.
EL SAYED’S OBSESSION WITH ISRAEL AND ZIONISTS
Dr. El Sayed greeted, with gusto, a Trump rationale of MAGA’S election loss to the “Great dislike incredibly of Israel”. They may all argue that they are not antisemitic just anti Zionist, but as the Rabbis of New York have repeatedly pleaded with Mayor Mamdani, “….soften or change your language regarding Israel, warning that this rhetoric contributes to an environment where antisemitic incidents have spiked….”. Both Mamdani and El Sayed behave as if America has only one foreign policy issue, - Israel. They have ignored Russia’s imperial thrust and slaughter of civilians, the massacre of tens of thousands of Iranian protestors, the Sudanese genocide, the abandonment of NATO, the bizarre attempts to economically stultify Canada and Cuba…. Israel is the issue. They have favored condemning the whole country as opposed to the dark cabal of Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben Gvir. The irony is that by this logic they too are collectively guilty for Trump’s MAGA America. But onto whether Dr. Sayed is a hypocrite or an antisemite.
EL SAYED’S CONNECTION WITH EGYPT
Abdul El Sayed has related that he has made multiple trips to Egypt, spent summers there. He admits it is a military dictatorship and that America shouldn’t spend tax dollars there. In fact Egypt is a close ally of Trump’s and part of his axis in the Middle East. No mention on the campaign trail that America is associated with fascist General Sisi who mowed down thousands of students in a Square in his military coupe, has locked up tens of thousands of political components, eroded judicial and media independence and assigned the economy to the military. Egypt receives I.5 billion dollars in aid annually from America nearly all of it is for the military. Trump did not stop this aid on the morning of the midterms like he halted Israel’s support.
Unlike Israel which is a secular country allowing clerical control of marriage and divorce, the constitutional law of Egypt is Sharia law which El Sayed personally practices. The Senator - elect criticized Israel for being founded as a Jewish state where it has far greater percentage of other populations and religions than Islam Egypt. The latter, in 1949, expelled its Jews following the Arab coalitions attempt, by force, to overturn the United Nation’s decision on partition of the land between Israelis and Palestinians.
EL SAYED’S SELECTIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO HISTORY
Forgotten too is that following the subsequent Six Day War, (1967), in the land swop Israel made for peace General Sadat only accepted the oil rich Sinai Desert and refused to take back governing Gaza. To this day Egypt controls entry to and from Gaza at the Rafah crossing. They have allowed limited crossing for medical and other humanitarian reasons. Their stated fear is that they do not want to be overrun by Palestinians, By Egyptian law Palestinians, where needed, can obtain work permits. Forgotten also is the fact that Prime Minister Sharon handed over Gaza as a going concern in 2005 to the Palestinians and in the first and only election in the territory HAMAS won and prioritized creating a terrorist organization rather than develop the country further. Sharon used the IDF to physically remove Settlers.
Activist Jews, secular or religious, in contrast to Dr. Sayed, don’t spend their time attacking Egypt they concentrate on trying to remove the toxic dark Netanyahu government. In contrast El Sayed argues that Israel that shouldn’t exist, supports apartheid and genocide. Incidentally with regard to genocide he maintained that on October 23, 2023 barely two weeks after the Hamas barbaric attack that Israel was practicing genocide in Gaza. As far as the apartheid part is concerned, although the Israeli treatment of its Arab citizens leaves much to be desired, the latter exercised their most important citizens’ right, to help vote the Netanyahu regime out of power
EL SAYAD’S RESUME - A PAUL AND DAISY SOROS FELLOW
This remarkable man was valedictorum at the University of Michigan giving a Commencement Speech that showed he would go onto greater things as predicted there and then by President Clinton. He was a topnotch sportsman, (interestingly shining in the sport of the gentry, Lacrosse), a leader and an academic, the criteria by which a Rhodes Scholarship is judged, which he was awarded.
Even more significantly in 2012 he won a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship which is designed to further leadership skills that fall within the parameters of the American Constitution and Bill of Rights, with the prospect of making a national contribution to America regardless of the recipients' respective discipline.
Paul and Daisy Soros, like Paul’s brother, George Soros, who is the target archetype of what Jewish hatred looks like, were Hungarians who escaped from the Holocaust. Although the last name should have sent a sense of shock to someone who had obtained an undergraduate degree in political science and with his public views at the time, El Sayed was part of the one percent of applicants who received a two year Fellowship, in financial terms worth $90,000.
Paul and Daisy plied their philanthropy strictly in an apolitical way to immigrant children or what appears to be first generation Americans. In an obituary Paul’s son Peter maintained that his late father was “progressive”. Paul invested with his younger brother George. He was skeptical of George’s attempts to democratize the former Communist world but generally admired his works.
The Soros Foundation emphasized the need for independent thinking and initiative. Commitment to the Constitution and Bill of Rights was essential. So much for his intolerance of Zionist Americans. The quote that sticks most in Jay H. Ell’s mind in his Primary debate was, “Every articulation of the Jewish state ends up in some articulation of illiberal values every single one. Money is the only reason why Democrats who ‘believe in human rights’ would support Israel”. This is the classical antisemitic trope.
So the Foundation may have produced a leader who would have an impact on the national scene, not the only Fellow by the way that has done so, but refusing to accept the good faith of opponents and one with a selective morality.
EL SAYED’S SUPPORT OF HASAN PIKER
Anyone who watched and listened to his CBS interview on “Sixty Minutes” could not fail to be impressed. What stood out for Jay H. Ell nevertheless most was the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow’s sleight of hand. He didn’t really retract his stance on American Democrats, who he had stated only support Israel for financial reasons, rather he would accept whatever he had no control over, namely whatever the parties involved agreed upon even a two state solution.
Another skill exhibited in the interview was his persistent deflection of answering questions about Hassan Piker, the Twitch streamer. Hasan Piker is a virulent unashamed antisemite. El Sayed needed to disavow the latter who was heavily involved in the future Senator’s campaign. El Sayed cherry picked the statements of the influencer that he disagreed with such as “America deserved 9/11”. He argued that “…the voters are more interested in grocery prices and healthcare than his relationship with Piker…” The only possible reason that he doesn’t break lose from Piker is that he essentially agrees with him and or he needs his supporters. Compare that after the white supremacist’s Charlottesville march chanted,“The Jews will not replace us”, when Trump 45 responded, “There were good people on both sides”.
Then there was his relationship with President Obama who Senator elect El Sayed voted for in 2012 with “reservation” having originally been “inspired” by him.
EL SAYED AND BARAK OBAMA
In 2012, the same year as his Soros Fellowship award, El Sayed wrote an op-ed piece in the Huffington Post excoriating the 44th President, claiming that, “…he was not the right choice…a failure….”. His criticism was widespread from military matters, to healthcare, his abandonment of civil liberties and immigration. Conceivably there was nothing Obama could do right.
Obama generally had focussed his personal imprimatur in the 2026 midterm on moderates in red states. This included cutting ads and occasional physical appearances in red states for example, Brown in Ohio, Ossoff in Georgia, Talarico in Texas and cutting an extensive ad with Tureck in Iowa. However El Sayed following his .009 percent victory in the Michigan Primary where his opponent received the majority black support needed to win his election. Obama took one for the team joking that Michelle had also criticized him! El Sayed claimed his anger was due to "youthful exuberance".
In his approach to Hasan Piker the incumbent Senator would have done better to have taken a page out of Obama’s book in the way that the latter handled the comments of his family pastor for 20 years, Reverend Wright. Wright had persisted in making anti American and racist statements which Obama "was saddened and outraged” at and resigned from his Church. Whether you like it or not in politics you own the views of your important supporters unless you disassociate yourself from at least the racist viewpoints. That is if you have any moral compass. Obama certainly needed black votes as well!
AT THE END OF THE DAY
The irony of incumbent Senator El Sayed’s path to one of the highest positions of leadership is stranger than fiction. To be given a jump start by President Bill Clinton who attempted to oversee the two state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and was thwarted by Yasser Arafat. Then to be awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship bequeathed by the most infamous British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes who believed bringing the potential leaders across the Empire and America would help to promote leadership across the English speaking world.
In 2012 was selected for a highly competitive Fellowship for prospective leaders in their field of endeavor by an organization founded by two Jewish escapees from the Holocaust who had to know his philosophy and radical political views.
For the information of those that argued that Dr. El Sayed was just a hypocrite and not an antisemite, he is both.
By the way the stupidity of the DAS including the aforementioned to want to change the Democratic leadership that engineered this massive victory is naive at best. It took 5 years after minority Tea Party intervened to get a Trump. A decade later the entire infrastructure of the Republican Party was smashed allowing this electoral tsunami to occur.
