Abdul El Sayed's use of the term Bloodthirsty

Continuing the discussion from Senate races 2026:

I can absolutely guarantee it, because we can easily find statements that are far more specific than El Sayed’s statement that were included in South Africa’s genocide claim.

This statement by Yoav Galant was specifically talking about Hamas, not Palestine; yet it’s included in South Africa’s bullshit claim:

Or this even more directly 1:1 statement by Netanyahu where he calls Hamas “bloodthristy”:

So yeah, I’m not buying the claim that calling Palestinians, or really anyone except Jewish Israelis, “bloodthirsty” would fly outside of MAGA circles.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLoD38E0gPU&t=97s (Democratic Senator calling Putin and his war “bloodthirsty”)

Maybe this is MAGA, I don’t know where you put Heritage: https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/universities-churn-out-bloodthirsty-liberal-activists-case-point-cole-allen

Here’s Democratic governor Kathy Hochul calling Hamas bloodthirsty:

On the other hand, here she is supporting Mamdani:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opinion/hochul-endorsement-mamdani.html

ETA: Responding to this comment:

You mean, he didn’t say “This goes beyond Putin, Russians became bloodthirsty under his rule but it goes beyond him”? That’s a great example of not making it racist.

Again, did she say “Palestine became bloodthirsty under their rule, but it goes far beyond them”?

Palestine isn’t a country, so I don’t know why she would say that. In any case, I’m not going to be able to find the exact usage you’re looking for, give me a break. If that’s your standard, enjoy your RO.

El-Sayed didn’t say Isreal was bloodthirsty before Netanyahu. He said the aparthied problem predated Nenanyahu.

The bloodthirsty quote is tied to Netanyahu and the current conflict. On August 5, 2026, El-Sayed stated that Israeli aggression extended beyond Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, though he noted Netanyahu was a major reason why actions had become “so aggressive and frankly so bloodthirsty under his reign.”

This is the quote you’ve been referring to (I think). It doesn’t say “bloodthirsty”

“Don’t forget that we’ve been talking about an illegal apartheid regime for a very, very long time, and that supersedes Netanyahu himself,”

He did say “they’ve gotten so aggressive and frankly so bloodthirsty under [Netanyahu’s] reign”, the they in context meaning Israel.I agree with RitterSport that this is within uncontroversial commentary using the word “bloodthirsty” and we’re not going to find a verbatim equivalent to prove it one way or another but he doesn’t couch it as just “actions”.

I would be totally unsurprised if someone described the US as getting so bloodthirsty under Trump’s reign. I would agree.

Sure. And one can agree or disagree with him about that. But I don’t see how it’s antisemitic.

He didn’t say Israel has been “bloodthirsty” outside of Netanyahu’s leadership.

Conducting summary executions is pretty close to bloodthirsty, imho.

It’s OK to be bloodthirsty, but only for unvaccinated blood. That vaxed stuff full of spike proteins causes really bad indigestion.