He Has Been Lying All Along

"I'm lying. Go suck an egg."

A conversation which took place in late September has come to light on Twitter/X since the election which is giving the Democratic Party a net gain of  7-9 seats in the US Senate. One of the Democrats who won, replacing an incumbent Democrat, was Michigan's Abdul el-Sayed. At the time of the interaction, Jewish Insider reported

In an appearance on the “Raging Moderates” podcast hosted by Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov, who are both Jewish and disagree with his stances on Middle East policy, El-Sayed doubled down in defense of his repeated use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza, invoking the Holocaust to justify his position.

“The word genocide was created to explain what that was,” El-Sayed said of the “murder of 6 million Jews” in the Holocaust, which he called the world’s “worst genocide.”

“But the whole point of creating that word isn’t that you have to wait until the crime is that big again to be able to use it, otherwise it loses its power,” he added. “Its power is in naming a thing before it gets that big, so we could do something about it.”

Scott Galloway lays out the numbers to Abdul El-Sayed. • The Holocaust killed 40% of Europe's Jews • Rwanda killed 70% of the Tutsis • Cambodia killed 1/3 of the entire country • In Gaza, it is 3% at most, alongside polio vaccines, 2,500 calories a day and leaflets warning civilians to leave El-Sayed doesn't dispute a single number. Instead, he says "we want to quibble about the words," and that the word genocide "should be used because it speaks to the moral imperative of action." Genocide is the word the world coined for the extermination of a people. It is the gravest charge there is. And El-Sayed's case for leveling it at the Jewish state isn't that it's true. It's that it helps him get what he wants. https://t.co/7ocwN9kjLj

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 11, 2026

The truly telling remark made by el-Sayed was 

But the whole point of creating tht word isn't that you have to wait until the crime is that big again to be able to use it, otherwise it oses its power. It's power is in maing a thing before it gets that bigs, so we could do something about it.

In an extraordinary admission, the then-candidate said that the word is invoked- continually- so that the thing it describes doesn't happen. It hasn't happened yet but we have to make the charge because it's infleuntial. El-Sayed is acknowledging that it hasn't happened but we have to use and repeat the word for its power- i.e., its strategic benefit. If the blood libel isn't used, people won't get excited about what Israel is doing!

It's possible that many others genuinely believe Israel is committing genocide. But Abdul el-Sayed, the first Muslim elected to the United States Senate, does not, and has been lying about it.  And that should be news.

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