Ismail Y Syed
@ismailysyed.bsky.social
Simple yet not afraid of sophistication. Research scholar of Middle Eastern affairs, religion, South Asia history, bibliophile, and columnist for Dhaka Tribune. Words from Bangladesh.
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Ismail Y Syed
@ismailysyed.bsky.social
· May 25
White Supremacy, Military Complicity, and the Palestine’s Gaza Holocaust: A Final Wake-Up Call
Introduction: Who Will Stand Against Genocide?
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White Supremacy, Military Complicity, and the Palestine’s Gaza Holocaust: A Final Wake-Up Call, by @ismailysyed.bsky.social
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#WhiteSupremacy #Genocide #Palestine #GazaGenocide #MiddleEast #CallofDuty #RAF #BritishArmy #USArmy
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#WhiteSupremacy #Genocide #Palestine #GazaGenocide #MiddleEast #CallofDuty #RAF #BritishArmy #USArmy
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There is a class element to everything, and how the choice Jews in the West made to support Israel and Jewish exceptionalism comes back to haunt them, and will change their lives forever
The Other Reason Jewish Professionals are Accusing Muslim Colleagues of Antisemitism
Sometimes a melodramatic reaction to a keffiyeh, a map of Palestine or an expression of humanity in a work chat is just a stratagem to ostracize the up-and-coming competition
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There is a class element to everything, and how the choice Jews in the West made to support Israel and Jewish exceptionalism comes back to haunt them, and will change their lives forever
Latest article on Hadith (Islamic prophetic traditions) - believing in Quran necessitates believing and trusting the hadith works and hadith transmission. Read the article (in Urdu but easily translatable by browsers's built in translation or AI):
➡️ baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#Hadith #Sunnah
➡️ baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#Hadith #Sunnah
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے
انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے
baynalsutur.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Latest article on Hadith (Islamic prophetic traditions) - believing in Quran necessitates believing and trusting the hadith works and hadith transmission. Read the article (in Urdu but easily translatable by browsers's built in translation or AI):
➡️ baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#Hadith #Sunnah
➡️ baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#Hadith #Sunnah
تازہ مضمون✍️
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے: انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے، از اسماعیل یمين سید۔
پوری مضمون پڑھیے بذریعہ لِنک مندرجہ ذیل:
baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#حدیث #الحديث
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے: انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے، از اسماعیل یمين سید۔
پوری مضمون پڑھیے بذریعہ لِنک مندرجہ ذیل:
baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#حدیث #الحديث
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے
انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے
baynalsutur.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
تازہ مضمون✍️
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے: انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے، از اسماعیل یمين سید۔
پوری مضمون پڑھیے بذریعہ لِنک مندرجہ ذیل:
baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#حدیث #الحديث
وجودِ قرآن، وجودِ ضرورتِ حدیث کا متقاضی ہے: انکار حجیتِ حدیث انکارِ قرآن کے مستلزم ہے، از اسماعیل یمين سید۔
پوری مضمون پڑھیے بذریعہ لِنک مندرجہ ذیل:
baynalsutur.substack.com/p/7a2
#حدیث #الحديث
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The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...
Israel Lobby EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened at the BBC
YouTube video by Double Down News
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...
The treachery of Arab rulers summed up:
“The US achieved the adoption of a [UN] resolution [2803] that…remains faithful to the…Trump plan... In doing so the US managed to respect Israel’s red lines while giving Arab states ‘a little’ [emphasis added] of what they required…”
#Trump #UN #UNSC
“The US achieved the adoption of a [UN] resolution [2803] that…remains faithful to the…Trump plan... In doing so the US managed to respect Israel’s red lines while giving Arab states ‘a little’ [emphasis added] of what they required…”
#Trump #UN #UNSC
![Weller, M. (2025). What is Security Council Resolution 2803, and what does it mean for the Trump Gaza plan? [online] Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank. Available at: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/11/what-security-council-resolution-2803-and-what-does-it-mean-trump-gaza-plan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufpjyhq2xe2vswmu2jwbvoqu/bafkreib3bkksyww2smhobgfv7jdsj2alhab6hrv5axp5dhtdjptj5wuu5q@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You seriously couldn’t make this up: here, #Google's #AI chat #Gemini is prejudicially programed. It initially analyzed the script and offered to state the accent—not based on the tones and phonics but yes, you guessed it right—based on how the name of the speaker sounds!
#AIChat #Stereotype ⬇️
#AIChat #Stereotype ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
You seriously couldn’t make this up: here, #Google's #AI chat #Gemini is prejudicially programed. It initially analyzed the script and offered to state the accent—not based on the tones and phonics but yes, you guessed it right—based on how the name of the speaker sounds!
#AIChat #Stereotype ⬇️
#AIChat #Stereotype ⬇️
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If you're a Jewish New Yorker who can't understand why people in your city voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , ask your children. They probably did too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
If you're a Jewish New Yorker who can't understand why people in your city voted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , ask your children. They probably did too.
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Unlike Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer, Mamdani refused to compromise on his anti-Zionism anti-colonial principles and standing up for commoners.
Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi
His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Unlike Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer, Mamdani refused to compromise on his anti-Zionism anti-colonial principles and standing up for commoners.
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Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi
His win is a huge victory for all New Yorkers, but it is also meaningful far beyond the five boroughs of this city
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it | Moustafa Bayoumi
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
“If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross
Just Ask Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger and Zohran Mamdani.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
“If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's Complicit and the Omission of the British #Military
A review: Oborne’s book is a devastating read, but its central irony is the omission. Buy/get the book!
Read the #review here:
ismailysyed.substack.com/p/genocide-n...
#genocide #BritishArmy #RAF
A review: Oborne’s book is a devastating read, but its central irony is the omission. Buy/get the book!
Read the #review here:
ismailysyed.substack.com/p/genocide-n...
#genocide #BritishArmy #RAF
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's Complicit and the Omission of the British Military
A review: Oborne’s book is a devastating read, but its central irony is the failure to name (or the omission of) the specific UK military commanders who aided the IDF's genocide in Gaza.
ismailysyed.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's Complicit and the Omission of the British #Military
A review: Oborne’s book is a devastating read, but its central irony is the omission. Buy/get the book!
Read the #review here:
ismailysyed.substack.com/p/genocide-n...
#genocide #BritishArmy #RAF
A review: Oborne’s book is a devastating read, but its central irony is the omission. Buy/get the book!
Read the #review here:
ismailysyed.substack.com/p/genocide-n...
#genocide #BritishArmy #RAF
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#BookReview:
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's Complicit and the Omission of the British Military
Oborne’s book is devastating, but its central flaw is the failure to name the specific UK military commanders who materially aided the IDF in Gaza.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#BookReview:
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
#BookReview:
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's Complicit and the Omission of the British Military
Oborne’s book is devastating, but its central flaw is the failure to name the specific UK military commanders who materially aided the IDF in Gaza.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#BookReview:
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
Genocide, Not Just Destruction: Peter Oborne's new book Complicit and the omission of the British military, writes @ismailysyed.bsky.social
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/ismailys...
#BookRecommendation #GazaGenocide
UK Zionist/Jewish supremacist lawyers for #hostages eg @adamwagner1.bsky.social had repeated direct access to doors of power eg PM Keir Starmer & foreign secretaries, whereas lawyers for UK aid workers & Palestinians didn’t. If this isn’t Jewish supremacy, then I don’t know what is. ⬇️
#KeirStarmer
#KeirStarmer
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
UK Zionist/Jewish supremacist lawyers for #hostages eg @adamwagner1.bsky.social had repeated direct access to doors of power eg PM Keir Starmer & foreign secretaries, whereas lawyers for UK aid workers & Palestinians didn’t. If this isn’t Jewish supremacy, then I don’t know what is. ⬇️
#KeirStarmer
#KeirStarmer
Car crash interview or Dawah that justifies prejudices?
It could have been anyone of us in that position as scholars and imams being interviewed by opportunist far-right Zionist grifter hosted by the Zionist state.
Read the fill article✍️ here:
➡️ ismailysyed.substack.com/p/car-crash-...
#Gaza
It could have been anyone of us in that position as scholars and imams being interviewed by opportunist far-right Zionist grifter hosted by the Zionist state.
Read the fill article✍️ here:
➡️ ismailysyed.substack.com/p/car-crash-...
#Gaza
Car crash interview or Dawah that justifies prejudices?
It could have been anyone of us in that embarrassing position as scholars and imams being interviewed by opportunist far-right Zionist grifter hosted by the Zionist state
ismailysyed.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Car crash interview or Dawah that justifies prejudices?
It could have been anyone of us in that position as scholars and imams being interviewed by opportunist far-right Zionist grifter hosted by the Zionist state.
Read the fill article✍️ here:
➡️ ismailysyed.substack.com/p/car-crash-...
#Gaza
It could have been anyone of us in that position as scholars and imams being interviewed by opportunist far-right Zionist grifter hosted by the Zionist state.
Read the fill article✍️ here:
➡️ ismailysyed.substack.com/p/car-crash-...
#Gaza
#Breaking
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement.
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement.
BREAKING: Al-Awda Hospital is reporting that at least six Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces bombed a tent housing forcibly displaced people in Abu Salim, west of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/fq90eh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/fq90eh
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#Breaking
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement.
Israel violated the ceasefire agreement.
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"At first I thought it was a little bit of a conspiracy theory... but at this point..."
Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.
#Newsnight
Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.
#Newsnight
October 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"At first I thought it was a little bit of a conspiracy theory... but at this point..."
Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.
#Newsnight
Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva suggests her support for the full release of the Epstein files is delaying her swearing in as a member of Congress in the US.
#Newsnight
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In the months to come, AI layoffs could trigger a populist backlash, warn @beamagistro.bsky.social, @sborwein.bsky.social, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, and Peter Loewen.
How should policymakers respond to AI’s harmful effects on employment?
How should policymakers respond to AI’s harmful effects on employment?
The Coming AI Backlash
How the anger economy will supercharge populism.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the months to come, AI layoffs could trigger a populist backlash, warn @beamagistro.bsky.social, @sborwein.bsky.social, @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, and Peter Loewen.
How should policymakers respond to AI’s harmful effects on employment?
How should policymakers respond to AI’s harmful effects on employment?
🚨US President spoke the quiet part out loud.
#Trump revealed that the White House doors swing open for the Adelsons’ pro-genocidal state Israel agenda whether he likes it or not. POTUS is implying America is infiltrated by Zionists’ money and lobby power. 📹⬇️
H/T: @ahmedeldin.bsky.social
#Gaza
#Trump revealed that the White House doors swing open for the Adelsons’ pro-genocidal state Israel agenda whether he likes it or not. POTUS is implying America is infiltrated by Zionists’ money and lobby power. 📹⬇️
H/T: @ahmedeldin.bsky.social
#Gaza
October 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🚨US President spoke the quiet part out loud.
#Trump revealed that the White House doors swing open for the Adelsons’ pro-genocidal state Israel agenda whether he likes it or not. POTUS is implying America is infiltrated by Zionists’ money and lobby power. 📹⬇️
H/T: @ahmedeldin.bsky.social
#Gaza
#Trump revealed that the White House doors swing open for the Adelsons’ pro-genocidal state Israel agenda whether he likes it or not. POTUS is implying America is infiltrated by Zionists’ money and lobby power. 📹⬇️
H/T: @ahmedeldin.bsky.social
#Gaza
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"Both Israelis and Palestinians are likely to miss a historic opportunity to transform a hard-won ceasefire into lasting peace," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4nYAUAn
Opinion | Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace
“A new Middle East” will require sacrifices that Israelis and Palestinians show no sign of making.
wapo.st
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Both Israelis and Palestinians are likely to miss a historic opportunity to transform a hard-won ceasefire into lasting peace," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4nYAUAn
The economy of genocide, as once coined and reported by @franceskalbs.bsky.social.
#GazaGenocide #UN #PalestineGenocide #EconomyOfGenocide #GenocideComplicity
#GazaGenocide #UN #PalestineGenocide #EconomyOfGenocide #GenocideComplicity
London's £34bn pension fund complicit in Israeli genocide, report says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/londons-ps34bn-pension-fund-complicit-israeli-genocide-report-finds
London's £34bn pension fund complicit in Israeli genocide, report says
A report by Shake the CIV says the London Collective Investment Vehicle has £7bn invested in companies "enabling Israel’s human rights abuses"
www.middleeasteye.net
October 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The economy of genocide, as once coined and reported by @franceskalbs.bsky.social.
#GazaGenocide #UN #PalestineGenocide #EconomyOfGenocide #GenocideComplicity
#GazaGenocide #UN #PalestineGenocide #EconomyOfGenocide #GenocideComplicity
The US #Trump’s #PeaceTalks (aka British Mandate 2.0 of Palestine, with Butcher of Iraq War Tony Blair likely sitting on board with Trump and his Zionist Jewish stakeholders Steve Witkoff & Kushner) has exposed the cowardliness or treachery of the Arab and Muslim states.
#Gaza
#Gaza
While any respite from genocide is welcome, until and unless the genocidal occupation doesn’t not end *fully* from *all* of occupied Palestine incl East Jerusalem, and until Palestinians do not get their *full* statehood with own deterrent defence force, all is Oslo 2.0.
#Gaza
#Gaza
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The US #Trump’s #PeaceTalks (aka British Mandate 2.0 of Palestine, with Butcher of Iraq War Tony Blair likely sitting on board with Trump and his Zionist Jewish stakeholders Steve Witkoff & Kushner) has exposed the cowardliness or treachery of the Arab and Muslim states.
#Gaza
#Gaza
While any respite from genocide is welcome, until and unless the genocidal occupation doesn’t not end *fully* from *all* of occupied Palestine incl East Jerusalem, and until Palestinians do not get their *full* statehood with own deterrent defence force, all is Oslo 2.0.
#Gaza
#Gaza
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
While any respite from genocide is welcome, until and unless the genocidal occupation doesn’t not end *fully* from *all* of occupied Palestine incl East Jerusalem, and until Palestinians do not get their *full* statehood with own deterrent defence force, all is Oslo 2.0.
#Gaza
#Gaza
نهاية الحرب طبعا نرحب ولكن هذا ليس اتفاق السلام بل الاتفاق الوقف الموقت. مالم تسفر عن هذا الاتفاق دولة فلسطينية على أراضيها المحتلة بأكملها مع القدس الشريف كعاصمتها مع القوات المسلحة الفلسطينية للحفاظ على سيادتها، تكون جميع الاتفاقات تافهة، تسفر عنها الابادة الأخرى.
#ترامب #غزة #Trump #Gaza
#ترامب #غزة #Trump #Gaza
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM